We finally made it, we crossed the state line and we're out of Tennessee and have reached Damascus, VA. What should have been 5 days turned into 9, far too long but shit happens. Crossing into Virginia! Rabbit and Cat dropped the five of us (Cricket, Caboose, Peanut, Prairie Dog and myself) back at the... Continue Reading →

Peanut put it perfectly, today was ass. We woke up in the rain, everyone's tents were soaked. The skies cleared  a little and we mustered up enough motivation to make the 0.2 mile hike the rest of the way to Boots Off hostel. It started raining and it was a torrential downpour. We stopped for... Continue Reading →

I wasn't sure how my foot was going to hold up today so I made a point of getting up and out of camp early, before everyone else. The terrain was mostly flat again, only one big "up" to get over at the end of the day. My foot held up reasonably well through the... Continue Reading →