Day 4

​Day 4

Starting location: Parking Lot off PA 324

Ending location: Rausch Gap Shelter

Mileage today: 11.1 miles

Total Mileage: 29.6 miles

Today’s Photo

The story behind this photo ... 

Last night we tent camped near Amee since we knew for certain it would rain today. By God’s grace, we got the tent packed before it started. We left at 7 am to a lite rain that steadily got worse over next 4 hours. We were soaked, cold and tired when we finally came into the shelter around 1 pm. I was worried about hypothermia for the boys so we quickly got undressed and into warm dry clothes and a sleeping bag. Lucas crashed immediately but CJ listen to his audible book. 

This was the shelter we stayed at. Small but had a great fire pit and a spring literally 10 feet away. Sooo nice. Once we finally got lunch in, two more thru hikers came in. They started Feb 1st, which is insanely earlier. They survived a blizzard in the Smokies. Crazy. Their names were Big Tex and Lil Tex ( obviously from Texas). Later Boulder came in and finally Walter White and Jessie came in around 7 pm. 

 

Even though it poured half the day didn’t stop us from getting a fire going. Which made the evening bearable. We listened a little more to our LoTR book and finally crashed at 9:30 pm. Here are some more pics of today. We only have satellite signal so can’t post this yet. 

Saw millions of these red Efra  on the trail today. We hope we didn’t step on any. lol. 

Breakfast by the waterfall before the rain really started coming down. 

Hikers obviously have a lot of time cause who makes 4 chairs out of stone!? lol. 

God bless 

Gandalf, Legolas & Bombadil.