Day 25 - Up, Up, Up!
Woke up and started hiking at 8 AM. It was another beautiful morning for hiking. Do you see the mountain in the background? We’re going over that today.
Today was a lot of up! Seemed like I was always climbing. But regardless, there is always beauty in the Appalachian Mountains.
Not sure if you remember, but a few posts ago I told you if the trail gives you a chair you should take it… Today it literally gave me a chair! It was just out in the middle of nowhere, so funny.
Not sure if any of you have seen pictures of Juergen, here he is by a waterfall where we got water. He has been an excellent hiking partner. He has been married for 40 years, and has four children. He was the managing director at GE Germany for quite a while. A very interesting and nice gentleman.
The trail is starting to really green up. Flowers are blooming and spring is definitely here.
Mom, here’s a giant bunny for you!
This is one of the many stops today just to take a break and get some sugar or food in us.
Today was also the first time I came across barbed wire on the Appalachian Trail.
Again, and may I say it never gets old, we had some amazing, amazing views.
Then down the mountain we came to a gap where we had to cross the road and head up the other side. Always hoping for trail magic, care roads have not had any lately.
As a matter fact it was a lonely day on the trail. Hardly saw any hikers. Remember Captain Caveman, the young man with the wooden leg, he started after my start date of March 22. He’s the only person I know that has started after March 22nd, that is ahead of me. We were not hiking fast today and I was sure that some hikers would pass us – yet not one did.
In the late afternoon it became all about finding a campsite. I was tired! But you have to have flat ground so we kept on walking.
The flowers were blooming all over the mountains, so beautiful.
Finally after 16 miles we walked up a ridge and found a flat space only to walk a little bit more and realize there’s a road quite close with houses on the other side. They look like vacation rental houses and no one is living in any of them right now. So we pitched our tents, had dinner and are in our respective tents by 7:15pm.
Nite!
