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To add injury to insult, several toes are blistering after wet shoes from yesterday's rain. I'll try to take care of them before they turn into a big problem.

We walked thru 2 old town sites. One town was a coal mining and railroad equipment repair site. Now there is a limestone filter to clean the creek. We got to walk several miles on old rail bed. That is always a treat because it is an easy grade and smooth trail bed.

We camped at 501 shelter. The shelter was a double garage sized building with a large table in the center. Over the table was a large octagonal skylight. We cooked supper in the shelter and set up our tent in the dark.

As we approached the shelter we encountered a couple of groups of day hikers at a beautiful overlook. They were interested in our hike and asked lots of questions.

We continued walking the same ridge for the second day. Many places it is rocky and some places are almost rock scrambles. Sometimes it is even smooth, easy trail. Ken keeps chanting "smooth, fast, straight". He is convinced that it works to make better trail if he chants it long enough. We found a good campsite just past Phillips Spring. Ken went down the hill to the spring for dinner water. The map said that the spring was piped but it looked like there had been a rockslide that destroyed the spring. There was a very small, slow trickle of water that he was able to filter and haul up the steep hill. We were glad because the next water was in town. We slept soundly until 4 am when heavy rain started.

We hiked into Port Clinton in the rain. We had more PA rocks in the trail. The interesting thing was a 1000 foot drop, in the last mile.

We headed for the motel to dry out and do laundry. We wanted to rest our feet for the rest of the day. We got one of 3 available rooms in town. There are 2 places to eat - in the 2 motels. No groceries available in town. Well the outfitter has cokes, ice cream, Snickers, and a few other hiker foods. We found an acceptable replacement pair of sunglasses for Marcia.

We may walk the 2 miles to Wendy's for supper tonight. (Depends a lot on the weather.) There is a convenience store that may have some food items.