Another day...

I took another zero day in Cloud9 today on some expert advice from the resident hiker who does about 1200 miles of walking a year. I need to go outside and take a 3/4 mile hike up and down a hill to see how my left knee feels. It seems like its almost fixed. The right knee is fully recovered. A little hip strain is mostly healed to. If I'm able to do this hike up the hill then I may do what is called a "slack pack" from the place I departed the AT 16 miles back and walk back to this location to get my gear and remaining food, and then walk on after that. Its gonna be a thunderstorms and cold spell coming up so I went to the outfitters today and bought a closed cell foam pad to sleep on in the hammock and a pair of crocks. I hate adding weight but these two items seemed necessary. Well to go do a little test walk. Think positive thoughts.