After getting soaked at the tail end of the previous leg, the day dawned ... less wet. Except for the hosing off of bikes that were incredibly dirty/muddy from the day before ... but a quick bath, some drying and lube on the chain and things were mostly back to normal. Rockwood is a tiny ... uh, town, with zero breakfast options on a Sunday morning so we made do with coffee and packaged sticky buns from the only thing open, the local gas station. Gas station donuts were avoided. Confluence is about 20 miles up the trail and there we discovered Mitch's Fuel and Food, which is less gas station and more diner. Excellent breakfast was had. That 20 miles went by in just over an hour, as that section of trail is noticeably downhill. Also remote. Also lovely. Also very quiet. And also not muddy after the rain. From there it was 10 miles to Ohiopyle with all the tourista activities you could possibly desire. And giant scoops of ice cream. We saw the falls for the first time ever (in 2020 we did not go into town as everything was closed because of the pandemic). More impressive bridges and engineering. From there it was an uneventful 15 miles or so into Connellsville and what felt like a luxury hotel (after a night in the hostel in a town with pretty close to zero services). And Connellsville also marks the end of the remote sections of the trail as there are many more little towns and roads and houses ahead.