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| Plum Orchard Gap Lean-to |
We had a weird time last night at the shelter. When we got there, there was all this equipment laying around and a note about some guy who had a bad foot and was taking it easy for a few days. So we settled in and had supper. The guy showed up later and turned out to be a real freak. He had the worst language I ever heard and he was just plain freaky. There was something about him that I just couldn't dig. He was from Canada and had been doing a lot of drinking in the past few years. He had been in Florida until he began hiking and he was "getting into" nature and farming, etc. I don't know how sincere he was about all this, but he may have been.
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| New shelter - Muskrat Shelter |
We left this morning to rain. And it stayed that way all day, rain and fog, etc. We made good time until 1:00, about 7 miles and we came across a new shelter off the trail a ways. It wasn't listed in the book, must have been built last summer. Real nice A-frame type. Almost decided to stay there, but moved on the next 3 miles to Standing Indian Lean-to. Half way there it started thundering and raining and continued to get worse all the way to the shelter. Our feet are now completely soaked as are our shoes. It's pretty miserable. There's a chance of more rain tomorrow, too. It was really something how the trail turned into a stream in only a few minutes. There was no escape from the water. The last half mile climb up to the shelter was the worst. In the evening the shelter really became surrounded by water as the stream out front flooded and the heavy rain ran off around us.
Today we crossed from Georgia into North Carolina. Our first state done. There were supposed to be some great views in the gap where the border is, but we couldn't see anything. Steep rough climbing right after the border.
Yeah I remember all that rain. It can get pretty miserable when your boots and everything else gets soaked like that. Good thing the shelter didn't float away.
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