**Facebook Post 092117 at 9:15AM**
Next stop… Killington, VT
**Facebook Post 092117 at 1:21PM**
So, today I am having an entire silent conversation with myself as I hike down the trail, specifically about the time and place to poop. You don’t want to be too close to the trail, someone might come hiking by and you also don’t want to burden anyone with the unfortunate “I just stepped in poo” moment. There isn’t a lot of opportunity to wash ones shoes after. You also don’t want to be so far off trail you might get lost. It can’t be too rocky, because then you won’t be able to dig a deep enough cat hole. You don’t want too much brush, because, God forbid, some of that brush might be Poison Oak or Ivy. It would also be very nice if there was a slight breeze. I mean, not the type of breeze where you are almost knocked off your feet while trying to hold position, but just strong enough to give you a that refreshed feeling. I suppose this means I like pooping at elevation.
This conversation with myself, mind you I’m spending an exorbitant amount of time alone in the woods these days, went on for close to twenty minutes. This my friends may mean I have some issues, but I digress… Anyway, it suddenly dawned on me. This conversation seemed oddly familiar. Not that there isn’t some variety of it every time I have to go, but…. Christen DuVernay I feel like not only have we shared many a poop joke, but that quite possibly during a past moment in our very long friendship, or perhaps during a time we shared bumbling through woods together, we may have shared this very conversation. If not, it completely reminded me of one we would have. AND I’m pretty sure we wouldn’t have had to be in the woods to converse on such a subject.
(Also no pooping near water sources, tent sites or shelters, because that’s just gross. And no pooping on a slope. I want to bury that shit, not watch it roll down hill, or go tumbling after.)
11:25AM Start Day 36 (092117)
•11:25AM (Estimate) Stream (Mile 474.1)
•3:45PM Stony Brook Shelter
(Mile 479.0)
•7:30PM Kent Pond side trail to Killington, VT (Mountain Meadows Lodge, .2 off trail)
(Mile 485.1) Sleep
•7:00AM Wake, pack, etc..
•9:00AM On trail (Walk .2 back to trail head) (Mile 485.1)
•9:30AM VT 100 (Mile 485.7) (Walk .6 East Camping Supply (Opens at 10AM) (Walk .3 to Grocer, but light food supply, lunch) (Walk .3 back to Camping Supply, buy fuel) (Walk .6 back to trail head) (Mile 485.7)
•11:25AM Gifford Woods State Park (shower) (Mile 485.9)
11:25AM End Of Day 36
APPROX 11.8 Miles
(Add 2.2 miles for Meadows Lodge, going into town to Grocer, and Camping Supply)
