Day 12

Last night we celebrated at The Lazy Hiker Brewery with a ton of other thru hikers. Pretty much everyone we talked to were planning on taking a “zero” today to avoid the projected rain. We decided to risk it and get out of town before spending any more money. Also it is probably going to rain for the next 3 days with the hardest rain on day 3 when we will likely be near the Natahala Outdoor Center where they have lodging if we need to get off trail.

Ron from Baltimore Jacks where we stayed last night drove us back to the trail and we were hiking again by 10am. It started raining by 11am and was off and on light rain for the next few hours. Not bad at all really and the temperature was perfect for hiking so we had a much better day than expected. The other bonus is that we got ahead of the bubble we were trapped in so it was not crowded on the trail or at our chosen campsite for the evening which we had all to ourselves.

High point of the day (literally) was on top of Silers Bald. These pictures do not even come close to showing how awesome it was up there.

~Further