Shortly before dusk our new friend John; whom we met our first evening on the trail; arrived and we shared the shelter with him. John is a 64 year old diabetic, ex-marine who has no problem keeping up with us. I hope I can do this when I am his age.
We found shelter life to be much easier than tenting because the set up & tear down is minimal. The down side is it is wide open to critters, like spiders and mice. At least the mice left us alone, the spiders not so much. Good thing they're only daddy long legs. I think we all prefer tenting going forward, unless it is raining.
Today we crossed Blood Mountain which peaked at about 4,300 ft elevation. It was very steep going up and coming down it was bare granite in most places. Once again the great views were foggy but it kept it fairly cool.
By noon we reached civilization on the trail and are staying in a cabin and taking a much needed shower and doing laundry. Each cabin is named after an animal - ours is named "Squirrel" and has stuffed squirrels on the walls. Chris thinks this one keeps at staring at him.
For the third day in a row we reached our destination just minutes before a downpour of rain. I'm sure it is because of my good clean living.
We got a shared a ride into Blairsville with John where we restocked our food for the next four days and had some yummy hambers and beers. And got Michelle her Starbucks fix.
Tomorrow we return to the woods for another four days...
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