Day 2:  8/12/17

We started our day cleaning drenched, muddy tents. It rained all night long and it rained hard. The good thing is that it stopped before time to hike out. We had breakfast and started our day. We met several hikers today. Most of them are AT hikers. We met a guy, Mitchell, and his dog, Hazel, who are doing the Long Trail. Mitchell doesn’t have a trail name yet, so Thumbsucker and I feel obligated to give him one. We’ll see what we come up with.

We had a pretty good trail today. It was wet and muddy in spots, but nothing like in 2015.

We made 13 miles. When we got to the shelter, the shelter was full and all the tent sites were full as well. There was a storm brewing and we were scurrying trying to find somewhere to set up before the storm. We hiked back down the trail about 1/2 mile to a small site in the woods we had seen on the way up. We literally put the last stake in the ground and dove in the tents and the monsoon hit. It was a ferocious storm. There was no time for supper before diving in and the storm continued for quite a while. We had to dart out in the rain to hang food bags once we saw it wasn’t going to stop.

So, no supper for me. Guess I’ll just have to look forward to some cereal and a power bar in the morning.