16.6 miles - 390.7 cumulative miles
Another rough night last night. It was very cold and I wasn't really prepared for it being that cold. My knee was feeling pretty bad, too. I think the cold has an effect on it. There was a full moon last night. Was pretty bright all night. There were a couple of grouse drumming it up in the evening, too. Had 7 people in the shelter. Leo never showed up. Got up around 6 and got moving in the freezing cold, making breakfast. Left at 7:30.
I had a bit of a mess up with the film in my camera. I went to rewind the film and it broke off, or had been broken off when I advanced the last frame. So Using my raincoat as a portable dark room, I pulled the film out of the camera and into a can. The coat wasn't exactly dark, so that roll is probably ruined. Too bad, too, since it had all my shots of laurel Fork Gorge. [This explains both the poor exposures of the Laurel Fork Gorge pictures and the lack of further photos from this stretch of trail]
Got to Rich Knob Shelter at 11:00 and ate lunch. Left again at 12:00 and went on to the end of the section and stopped at a picnic area and rested some more. Then we went on to a fire tower with great views to the west. Saw a real cozy looking little farming valley town to the east.
Went on to Abingdon Gap Shelter and got there around 4:00. Robin Hood was there when we arrived. Walt had gone on another 8 miles to the next spring. He's more or less gone, I guess. There's a group of 7 or so kids camped down near the spring. Five bunks in the Leanto and 5 people. This is the last of the wire bunks for a while at least.
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