18-08-12 Stopped at little wilson Falls

I could have gotten out of the the Hundred mile wilderness, but it was about two I had six ish miles left and Buddha and his friend (I am calling him Blue pearl) were building a fire and there were stairs. So I stopped and helped them build a fire.

We talked around the fire Buddhas friend is a meditation instructor and talked about diving into the blue pearl. I guess you focus on the image of a blue pearl until you zoom through it to a state of higher consciousness. He spent hours in meditation to get there. Hmm not sure I could do that. Buddha was on the trail to recover from a divorce. He had started in New Jersey and had done about 800 miles, They were heading North, but he was at Shaws the next evening saying that the trail had given him all that he needed. A college age kid (at 66 he seems young) He was trying to finish the hike before school started and he had been doing 30 mile days since June. The kid spent an hour resting and then took off to do night hiking. Frankly on trails that were pretty tough. When hiking with your head lamp your depth perception is kind of off. But he had done 2100 miles so I am sure that he did fine. We stayed up late talking maybe we were up at 9:30 well past hiker midnight, which is about 8:00.

The picture does not do the falls justice It was a small and pretty falls with two streams coming to gether down the rock face.