Total trail mileage: 638.3
Starting location: Pearisburg, VA
Ending location: Symms Gap Meadow
Weather: cloudy all day, 55-60 degrees during the day
I am at
http://maps.google.com/maps?q=37.403395,+-80.688028
Why are all the towns at the bottom of the hills? It makes it so the
hike into town is really easy with an empty pack and the hike out of
town is much more difficult with a heavy pack. It is like the town
designers wanted you to get trapped in town. They should really
relocate one of these towns to the top of the mountain.
After starting out, I thought today was going to be very slow and I
would crawl up the hill. Somehow that wasn't the case, and I was
still making slightly better than a 2 mile per hour pace. That's not
bad for me going up a steady climb.
Rice Field Shelter was pretty nice. It sits on the edge of a grassy
field with more views of the valley. But, despite the late start out
of town (there was an interesting miniseries on tv), it was still
early by the time I reached the shelter. So, I went a few more miles
and camped out next to a nifty meadow.
I ran into Athos as I was heading back to the trail but didn't see any
other thruhikers today.
Two fighter jets flew over the ridge while I was hiking. I mean,
right over the ridge...they were pretty low to the ground. I could
have read the tail numbers. I thought I heard a fighter jet yesterday
as I was hiking, but thought that it might just be a low flying
commercial jet.
Who knows where I go tomorrow. I hear a decent amount of rain is in
the forecast, so I probably won't be able to miss it in the next few
days.
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