What an Adventure this was.  Luke and I spent 4 amazing days hiking the coastal trail.  After Doing Devils Chair to Bald Head River in TWO days we felt pretty good.

The 30k hike we did was through the hardest part of the whole trail.  Tuesday morning I got mauled by two hives of yellow jackets and was stung in the calves about 15 times.  Apparently my body is not proficient in dealing with that much venom: My legs swelled up and I could no longer walk.  So on the fifth day, swollen legs and a torn ligament in my knee, we hiked the 2.5k out the Orphan Lake trail and hitch-hiked home.

We’d hoped to be out in the wild until Friday, but after getting within range of the parking lot, we started running into “Day-Trippers” and their pis-cutter dogs…so the trail felt less rugged and we felt more like the best part of our hike was over.  So instead of recovering for a day and pressing on, we checked out.  Plus, I had to crap…and aqua dumping on a public beach is not exactly a “Socially Acceptable” act.

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