You are all caught up through Sunday. We hiked 12 miles with 2000 ft of gain, the park was mostly shut down so we did what we could. It was a good warm up. Like I said Saturday night i barely slept so i was tired on Sunday night.
The plan was to get up at 6 am on Monday to hike the AT. The weather was to be clear and sunny to me it was cool but really pleasant for hiking. Well 6 am the coffee automatically started and the alarm went off, but no one was getting up. I hit the snooze until 7:30. i started waking around 7ish but did not get up till 7:30.
Basically got a little bit later start but we were ready for hiking. We drove to Newfound Gap. We were hiking the AT north 6 miles, which would take us past charlie's bunion. First it was beautiful. The drive in under all the yellow trees. The views from the trail. The trail was much more technical than Sunday, as Bert and I said, we were back on the AT. We loved it though. Most of the hike was on a knife's edge ridge. Let's hope the pictures work out.
Us on top of charlies bunion.
looking out from the bunion.
Newfound Gap
Bunion again
We ended up hiking 13 miles with over 3000 ft of gain. Thankfully had some leftovers for dinner which was perfect as we did not get back till 6:30. This hike took us a bit longer after the previous day. We went to bed early.
I slept pretty good last night. I set the alarm for 7 am and was ready to get up. The plan was to work today since we thought our legs we need a break. Yes we were super sore when we woke up but am feeling better. I might actually go for a run later. the weather is beautiful now. I am sitting outside with mallory. We almost swapped tomorrow with today, plan to hike tomorrow because it will rain all day Wednesday and Thursday but the legs are shot. We have our gear so the plan is to hike tomorrow in the rain. Just not going to do something that has a lot of views as we expect to be socked in.
We have a goal of 100 miles of hiking. Tomorrow will be key if we can do the 12 miles in the rain. We should make it.