After hanging with Slam Man and his folks, we parked the car in Pen Mar Park and headed north 1/3 of a mile to tag the Pennsylvania/Maryland border and started back southward on the trail.
A half mile into it we followed a run (off the trail) south to a bridge and the sheriff's house. We located ourselves on the map and we were between the trail and railroad tracks. We headed toward the trail, but came across another property with no visible path to the trail. Not wanting to trespass, we headed back up the run. Eventually, we came across a side trail heading up the hill where the trail would be and caught a glimpse of some white blazes. I don't know where we missed our turn, but we were obviously still on the high of hanging with Slam Man. We wasted pretty valuable time, but we were still able to set up a camp just off the trail before sundown. Dinner this night would be prepared by headlamp light. The meals for the weekend were all high calorie since we figured we would be blowing through calories the next two days.
We wrapped ourselves in our survival blankets and it was pretty cold, I would guess in the low-to-mid 40's. We didn't sleep too well that night.
While breaking camp and sipping coffee in the morning we noticed a bunch of runners going by on the trail. We found out later in the day, there is an event call the four-state challenge. Perhaps something to look forward to next year?
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