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Friday October 29th We wake to pouring rain outside our Quality Inn hotel room in Harper’s Ferry on Friday. We delay leaving as long as we can and go walking out of there right at the 11 AM check out time. We are fully suited up in rain jackets and rain pants, a pack cover for Jeff and our umbrellas. It’s probably the hardest rain we’ve seen since the day we flew into Maine. We walk a short distance to the ATC headquarters to wait for the StonyBrook Farm 12 Tribes members to come get us. We feel sad thinking about Collette and Dakota out on the trail in the rain. While we wait we get our photos taken by an ATC volunteer. All the AT hikers coming through town are supposed to come here to register and get there photo taken. The photos go into a big 3 ring binder which then serves as a record of all of the hikers to have come through. We were the 152nd and 153rd South-bounders to come through town this year. I would have thought there would be more than that. We end up waiting several ho...