8.9 miles - 435.1 cumulative miles
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| Bobbletts Gap in the morning |
We had a bummer of a night, but there were also good points. One was while when we went up to the overlook on the Blue Ridge Parkway to watch the sunset we met a couple there doing the same. They had just driven up from Lynchburg. We got talking with them about our hike and other stuff. They gave us their phone number and asked us to give them a call when we got to the James River and one of them would pick us up for a night in town. The other was that we put up the tent on the trail away from those crazy kids in the shelter and all their noise. It rained some during the night and quite a bit this morning. Fortunately the crowd in the shelter left early, so we packed up the tent and went down to the shelter for breakfast. There were two guys in a tent there, out for the weekend.
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| A reminder... |
We left the shelter around 11:00 and went looking for an abandoned iron mine nearby. It wasn't much. So we continued hiking. It was a really nice trail today, with one long level section on a ridge top with rhododendrons everywhere. Came across a turtle in the trail this morning and saw a couple of lizards, too. Ran into tow guys from Germany with a couple of cameras each, taking pictures of flowers. They took a couple of us, too. Came across 4 horses and riders this afternoon and we scared the horses right off the trail.
It was a partly cloudy day. Every once in a while the sun would come out and then the clouds would look threatening most of the rest of the time. Got to the shelter around 3:30. Reminded me of Devil's Hopyard [State Park in Connecticut]. Stream, hemlocks, picnic tables, families out for picnics, a road a hundred feet away. A guy and 3 girls showed up shortly. He just graduated from college. The girls are in High School. We all cooked our suppers - Rick and I had creamed salmon on noodles. Ate too much, if that is possible! Got a bit of rain in the middle of preparations.
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| A couple of shots from Cove Creek |
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