Day 150

Weather:
Humid. Rain all afternoon and evening.

Today's Hike:
Stratton Pond Shelter to Manchester Center, VT - 10.5 miles

Today was a town day which means we were up and out early and hauling butt to town. Today was the first time we got to shower or do laundry in 8 days, and we were well past ripe. We were so ripe that when people sat next to us at the cafe we were eating lunch at they immediately got up and moved to the other side. Nice.

After finishing all our town chores Jeff Taussing, owner of the Green Mountain House hiker hostel, picked us up and brought us back to begin the best hostel experience ever. The hostel only takes 10 hikers which means it's quite, and for 15 dollars we get our own room, a shower, laundry, Internet, free long distance phone calls, ice cream, and a ride back to the trailhead. Amazing. In addition, there's a kitchen in the hiker house so the Packadivas made all of us wonderful pasta dinner, chicken n' dumplings (for the meat eatters), and brownies. Yummy!

So we're spending the night catching up on some communication, and getting repacked for tomorrow. It's been raining since 2pm...... Hope it's done by tomorrow.