We had already planned a shuttle from the hotel to the High Point, Monument, and so we took our time in the morning, ate breakfast. A little early took another two hour nap, and then started packing her stuff to leave about 1130. We had called the Shuttle Driver named Johnny, who was absolutely Stupendous. She picked us up and started taking us up to the monument.
Johnny works at the High Point State Park, so she knows the area very well. She took us up to the monument which we got to see along with all the surrounding terrain because High Point is the High Point of New Jersey at 1802 feet., Not including the monument.
We were going to hike gone to the Shelter, but Johnny suggested that we spend the afternoon at “the beach” and then walk up to the shelter, which was only a short short height from monument park. This we did, and dipped our toes in Lake Marcia. The thing began to rain, so we stayed in the lodge just at the top of the hill of the lake for about 45 minutes, then packed up and headed to the shelter.
High Point shelter is magnificent with a fast running stream around the outer perimeter. The sheltere itself is relatively new, medium size, they’re about 10 hikers here at least at this point. I’m in my hammock and the girls are in their tent and the rain is going. There’s an idiot who’s trying to build a fir in a rain storm even though there’s a sign that says no ground fires. Basically it’s just a bunch of smoke and it’s kind of irritating me.
In summary, today was a very light day on the trail, but we yellow blazed a lot of miles to catch up. Tomorrow’s medium day at 8 miles. We’ll see how it goes.
Today’s mileage: 0.6
Total Trail miles: 44.4