{"id":572,"date":"2014-06-02T09:58:45","date_gmt":"2014-06-02T13:58:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hnatow.com\/wordpress-happytrails\/?p=572"},"modified":"2014-06-02T09:58:45","modified_gmt":"2014-06-02T13:58:45","slug":"day-46-mile-651-to-mile-671","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/hnatow.com\/happytrails\/?p=572","title":{"rendered":"Day 46 – mile 651 to mile 671"},"content":{"rendered":"

We hit the trail around 7:30am today. We passed by a “hiker feed” at a dude’s house who is simply named “The Captain”. This is something he apparently does roughly two weeks after Trail Days every year. He makes a crap-ton of free food for hikers. His house is literally right across a creek from the trail and he has a zip line to get there. Pretty badass, but it was too early in the morning for us to stop in when we got there. Anyway, I’ll come back to him.
\nWe hiked on through some Pennsylvania-esque terrain with lots of rocks again for most of the morning. <\/p>\n

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Are we in PA? Why does PA get a bad rap as the rocky state? VA is just as bad so far.<\/p><\/div>\n

Around 11am, we emerged to a gravel road and parking area and some excellent trail magic. <\/p>\n

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Awwwyea<\/p><\/div>\n

Former thru-hikers Warpzilla (2007) and El Perro (2011) were hosting. However, due to the aforementioned Hiker Feed at the Captain’s, literally almost no thru-hikers were coming through. Oops… just a little unfortunate timing and placement on their part. They were pretty bummed about the lack of thru-hiking traffic. I did my part by hammering 2 cheeseburgers (slathered in chili), 2 hot dogs (also slathered in chili), and 2 Miller Lites (not slathered in chili) in 30 minutes (followed not long after by our planned lunch that we were carrying). Shortly after we had one of the nicer views in Virginia thus far from a spot called Wind Rock. <\/p>\n

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Mmm views...almost as good as hot dogs and beer<\/p><\/div>\n

The only other excitement involved seeing the largest snake we’ve seen so far. <\/p>\n

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Big snake. No snakes or people were harmed in the taking of this photo.<\/p><\/div>\n

We made camp near a flat spot above a pasture in the woods after 20 miles. Tomorrow looks pretty much the same as the last 2 days. Hopefully one of these days we get cell service so I can upload some of these posts!<\/p>\n

Vital stats :<\/strong>
\nMood – thirsty for more beer
\nPhysical state – good other than lack of beer
\nSmell – really old cheeseburgers
\nSong stuck in my head – Dizzy by Jimmy Eat World<\/p>\n

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