May 3 - Burritos and Newts

From PJ:

Burritos

I made these burritos the other night - with cheese, rice, and beans.

Bob Peoples' jokes...

Foggy Day 

A little orange newt.

I almost crushed this guy by accident. It was a tiny little dude.

May 1 - Bob Peoples

From PJ:

I'm talking to Bob Peoples right now.

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So I found out today why everyone talks about Bob Peoples. He was cool when I met him and had good stories, but the section of the trail he maintains is by far the craziest yet. Not too physically demanding, just dangerous. Tons of rock stairs, walking on a ledge on the side of a rushing river. Just crazy stuff. Today was also the best scenery I have seen all hike, too. I took a ton of pictures, but I don't have the signal to send them all out.

This was much steeper than it appears. I walked down these the same way mom walks down the stairs. [backwards]

April 30 - 400 Miles

See Ya...

From PJ:

Should be hitting 400 miles in about 2 hours.

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Watching grown men take selfies makes me feel really good in my decision never to take a selfie.

400 MILES!!!

Rewarding my feet.

This water is actually freezing. I'm basically just sitting on this rock in the middle of the stream.

HISS

This snake was underneath me this whole time.

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Also I found out that I saw a flying squirrel way back in Georgia. I had no idea what it was at the time, but I saw a picture, and it definitely was one.

This is NOT the flying squirrel PJ saw...But it is eating pizza, so that's cool.

They [flying squirrels] look weird. Almost like a lemur. It wasn't flying when I saw it, but I could tell it was something different.

Bob Peoples - this picture was NOT taken by PJ. Catania found it online.

More from PJ:

So there's this guy - Bob Peoples - who is another trail legend. Anyway, on this shelter I passed, it had a bunch of quotes about him written on it - similar to the most interesting man in the world commercials.

Like, "Bob Peoples once was bitten by a snake. Sadly, three days later the snake died."

And my favorite, Bob Peoples sleeps with a pillow under his gun."