Beautiful glistening morning, sharing the trail with hundreds of orange newts. Dramatic scenery today, a big cleft in the mountains by Tom Leonard Shelter and plentiful views as we descend the ridge into Great Barrington. Here we'll be joined by a companion, Marmota from Minorca, who'll be hiking with us for the next ten days. This is an experiment. Normally Deb & I keep to ourselves on these longer hikes, developing our own language, customs, and cuisine like a little nation of two. But let's try something new!Marmota gets the pleasure of observing our in-town routine -- the grocery store, lunch, laundry, dinner, some wine, the post office, the shoe store, the hardware store, the drug store. Great Barrington has all this and more! We also catch one last sight of Mismatch as he's leaving town, already a day ahead of us. Good luck, Mismatch! (Presumably he's still out there, on his way to Georgia.)
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