The AT ain't bad

Last weekend we embarked on our first hike on the Appalachian Trail. It has been pretty wet here so the trail was real sloppy and I was a mess, I know how to find the mud. I also stepped through a bridge and up to my knee in a river about 10 minutes into the trip. By the time we set up camp 8 hours later I had smelly prune foot. Our camp was just below 4000 feet and it got pretty cool and really wet, oh and the bugs were horrible. Yes I spent the evening in the tent.

We met a thru hiker on our trek in, he must have left Georgia in like March to already be in Maine. I wonder how much snow he hit on the way and HOW he could do the trail solo. I think I would go crazy walking this by myself. Although doing all of it or a big chunk of it is something we would like to do someday.

Good times, here we are on one of the 2 peaks of the Bigelows. It was my first time at 4000 feet, on my own two feet. First time for Woofer too and he did awesome on the technical climbing with his new pack. Now if we could just get him to pose for photos we would be all good.