Total miles: 876.3
Entered Shenandoah Nat'l Park today. This is some easy hiking. Very well-graded, nice and flat. It rained on and off throughout the day which was tough, but it could have been worse. The shelter was full tonight so I pitched my tent for the first time in awhile. It's raining, so I'm not thrilled about tenting but I've had a good run of not having to tear down a wet tent so I guess I was due.
There were plenty of non-thru-hikers at the shelter tonight, which was apparent by the conversations they carried on, ranging from politics to local current events and other fairly intelligent topics. Whereas the typical thru-hiker conversation might go like this: "Monkey hungry? Monkey want rest of spam?" "No, monkey already eat. Where water? Monkey thirsty. Monkey mad there no spring on trail today."
Camping near Blackrock Hut shelter.
Great pictures of you with your mom and dad. Send them our love! Glad you had a good few days with them.
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