![]() The three of us squeezed under the small overhang of the building that the vending machines were in front of. I felt like serious hiker trash buying an ice cream sandwich while it was pouring rain. So while it was dumping rain on us, we stopped off at the vending machines for a treat. But I knew that everything in my pack was dry, so that was all that mattered.Īt one point the trail went right past a park and recreation area which apparently had vending machines. I never put my rain gear on, so I wound up getting completely soaked. It seemed like it was going to pass by quickly but wound up coming down for a while. Mid way through the day it began to absolutely dump rain out of nowhere. So I had to holler at them to get their attention before they went too far off trail. Each one was about a mile long or less.Ī couple of times the guys were up ahead of me and they veered off the AT onto a spur trail. Fortunately, the climbs were all nice and short. Every time we descended, we went right back uphill. It felt like an easier version of the roller coaster in Virginia. To start off the morning, the trail had a pretty good bit of ascent. Once we got up and began to pack up, Tailwind was already out and hiking. This morning we all slept in for a little while at the shelter. ![]() Laughing our asses off like crazy people, sitting alongside a road. It was pretty damn hilarious and we were all having a blast. All of us would do the wave when cars would go by, or we would all do some kind of a different synchronized wave. We started playing games with the cars that passed by. Then we decided to stay by the road for a while longer hanging out with Boosted. And after a minute I knew that it was Boosted and Roxy! We called over to him and they came over. This is just the guy’s way of helping out and feeling involved, which I thought was really nice.īefore we left the road, we heard someone else walking down the trail. His nephew is hiking the AT this year and is somewhere south of us. He apparently checks on the cache every single day and then takes the bottles to fill them up. We were there for a bit, and while we were all sitting, the water cache guy actually came by. It was a lot less mosquito-y by the road. So we filled up there and then sat by the road to take a break. There was a water cache by a road and otherwise it was a bit of a stretch between water sources. When we set out, we wound up walking for about five miles before we stopped to break.
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