2 min readDay 8 – the little thingsIt’s never a good sign when you pick up your wet socks from the previous day and they are rock hard. So frozen you could use them as a...
2 min readDay 7 – ExhaustionI will keep this one relatively short as I am very exhausted. I trudged through anywhere from 6-10 inches of snow all morning, and it...
1 min readDay 6 – deeper snowI woke up with a thin sheet of ice covering my sleeping bag. I would later learn the overnight temperature was around 0. I put on...
2 min readDay 5 – snowI woke up with my new four fellow hiking friends covered in snow. Our shelter with a makeshift tarp had failed on the edges and since I...
1 min readDay 4 – North Carolina I woke up in the cold and was on the trail by 8. Everyday the temperature has seemed to drop even more. The projection is single digits...
2 min readDay 3 – it’s getting colderThe morning was cold, windy and uninviting. I made the mistake of not checking my maps before going to bed and the two towns I was...