AT Day 68: Short Hop to Front Royal

Daily Miles: 2.1, Total Miles: 972.1

It rained steadily most of the night and still going this morning. Not in a hurry so had a rare two cups of coffee waiting for the rain to slow down.

I got down to US Route 522. Front Royal has a trolley that comes to the TH but wasn’t sure if it runs on a holiday. I got a hitch from a lady with four kids in a pickup. I threw my pack and poles on top of a tarp that loosely covered other items in the truck bed. They kindly dropped me off on the closest cross street to the motel in Front Royal but my hiking poles were missing. They must have blown out in the short drive into town. That’s what I get for buying these ultralight Gossamer Gear poles. – oh well, one pole was already broken anyway.

Still drizzling, I made a stop at Dunkin Donuts across the street from the motel. Eventually got checked in and later had a holiday burger and milkshake with what seemed to be most of the Front Royal population at Spelunker’s.

Got my gear and myself cleaned up and took a nice nap. Taking a zero tomorrow before the final push on the first half of my hike to Harpers Ferry WV.