(Written 4/15)

Yesterday was a rainy one, although not as cold as the last time it was wet, which was nice. Josh and I ran back into each other and hiked together up Albert Mountain, and made it through our 100th mile of the AT! It was a neat climb, and had some of our first scrambles up rocks that we’ve done on the trail.

I ended up camping at Rock Gap. Side note about that: the conversation around the shelter last night before I went back to my tent was particularly fun. There were two Australian hikers, a French Canadian hiker, and a German hiker there, with the rest of us being from the US. It’s so neat to have so many people with so many very different life experiences in the same place with the same goal.

This morning 4 of us got picked up by Britches’s Dad at Rock Gap. Today was fantastic! We ate great barbecue for lunch, resupplied at Walmart, and ate at the fabulous restaurant where Britches used to work for dinner (The Crown, in Brasstown, NC; the pork tenderloin was absolutely incredible). We’re staying with Britches’s grandma tonight before getting back on trail in the morning. Thanks so much to Jason Deck for lunch and dinner, to Grandma Jo for the incredible hospitality and to Barb or the ride back to the trail! We all had such a lovely time and it was so good to meet and talk with everyone.