Day 10: the world's nicest shelter

We stayed at a hostel last night run by a local church, 22 bucks, bed, shower, and all you can eat dinner, count me in. When we told the pastor about our millage and starting point, he pulled some ridiculous mind reading routine on us. He told us every shelter we stopped at, in order, and even added in that we got pizza at one particular shelter. Turns out he was a trail volunteer for 20 years and had hiked our route dozens of times.

We left early and came by a ridiculous shelter early on. Two shelters joined by a roof, retractable wind screen for the porch, hanging flowers, raised wooden tent platforms, a metal bear proof box, and a freaking sundial. There is a bench swing under construction now. Apparently one of the locals has made it his weekend project to build the most fabulous shelter known to man.

There were no flowers today. Pa is barren of flowers apparently, just full of blighted brush. At the end of the day I finally found some, tiny, yellow, and low to the ground. The camera color doesn't convey how cute they were. This is probably an easy one.