May 11 - Wood's Hole Hostel

Post date: May 12, 2012 8:46:22 PM

The hikers set left their campsite at Dismal Falls and had a meandering hike along the valley floor for approximately six miles crisscrossing Dismal Creek. They then undertook a steep 1500 foot ascent over the next two miles with a couple ups and downs in between the 3500 and 4000 foot elevation capping out for the day at the 4100 foot mark near the summit of Sugar Run Mountain.

“Austin” and “Five Pair” have been hiking alone since getting back on the AT and have not come across any of the hikers with which they previously were hiking.

Around Sugar Run Mountain they hiked and then having completed 12.8 miles, the hikers traveled down to Sugar Run Road and ½ mile off the trail was the hikers’ destination, Wood’s Hole Hostel. A hiker hostel since 1986 housed in a remodeled cabin built in 1880 and run by the granddaughter of the original hostel operator who owned the site since 1939.

619.4 miles complete/1,563.6 miles to go