I wanted to let folks know that the payphone outside the Jonesville Country Store has been removed. I went through there in late August, and the store owner told me the phone company had taken it away a few days before. She is looking into installing a credit card phone, but for now it may be difficult to make calls from Jonesville.
The trail wasn’t in great shape, but better than it was in rainy July. It all depends on what kind of weather you get where you are - there was a thunderstorm when we were a day or two south of Mansfield that seemed like hard rain but nothing special to us, but further north around Jay the same storm had washed out some local bridges.
Good luck and dry socks to all hikers!
Bunchberry