My alarm went off and my first thought was, PANCAKES! I quickly packed up camp and started the couple miles down trail towards town.

On the way down I checked my phone and Mike,  who follows me Instagram,  saw that I was going to the restaurant and left trail magic!

Breakfast at Timbers was great and the people were very nice.  I spent nearly two hours there, eating and resting up before heading back to the trail.

The trail after the restaurant was great,  pretty flat for a while.

After a bit of a climb later in the day,  I ended up in a really cool stand of Pine trees. The trail was covered in soft pine needles. I walked off the trail for a bit and took a nice break on the shady trees.

In the afternoon,  I passed the halfway point!

The trail got a little soupy during the last half of the day.  It must have pretty rough trekking in the rain.

I hiked pretty quick the last couple hours to make it down to the Pine Grove Furnace State park.  They have a general store where hikers can purchase ice cream for the traditional “Half Gallon Challenge”.

Unfortunately,  it turns out they are only open on the weekends this early in the year.  I was less than pleased.

I cooked and ate dinner at the state park,  then hiked out about a half mile and stealth camped just off the trail under a nice stand of pines.