Woke up to the alarm around 7:00, had a quick breakfast and got everything packed up, and were out the driveway by just after nine. Stopped for gas twice, thinking we could pick up water at the Kwik-fill in Emporium, but they didn't have an outside spigot, so we had to wind our way into town to the Sheetz, which did have one. Once we filled up we headed out again, taking the longer route around the east side, because the shorter route from the north on Google Earth looked a bit hairy. Missed the entrance to the Gaswell horse camp because we were evidently coming in from the opposite direction most people come in (from Benezette), but we were able to turn around at the Dark Hollow horse camp just south of it, and headed back again. The information we had that there was a "spring" nearby was very misleading, turned out to be a creek a quarter mile away, that was so shallow it will be quite a challenge if we need to get actually get water. There's rain in the forecast, so hopefully we'll be able to collect enough not to have to resort to sump pumping out of this little creek. Anyway, Gaswell camp is a nice little clearing with only five sites, and none of them allows us to set up the satellite dish because the trees are so tall, so we'll be running down our recordings on the DVR this week (a good thing). Didn't take us long to get set up, put the horses out on their anchors for a bit while we got their high line up, which was above us in the woods, then settled down. There was actually a pipe hitching post up there already, but the thought of making the horses stand at a hitching post for a week was very unappealing. Very quiet here, no one else in this camp, and only a couple of sites at Dark Hollow had folks in them at the moment. Way out in the boondocks, almost no cell phone signal, not enough for internet, and probably not enough for a phone call. Going to be a week without much contact with the outside world!
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