Blood Mountain - >Blue Mountain

Yoooo

Tonight were in Blood Mountain shelter, approximately 50 miles from Springer Mountain. We've been out 6 days now and on the the AT for 5, putting us at 10 miles a day. This is right where we should be mileage wise considering the conditions and the fact that we're new at this. We've gotten ahead of most of the crowd we were with earlier, but they'll probably catchup when we get off to resupply.

It's cold. We got about 6 inches of snow last night on top of 3 already on the ground. You'll think it's new England when you see the pictures. The boots are covered in snow, which will melt and saturate the boots so that by morning they will be blocks of ice. I have one more pair of socks that aren't saturated in ice water. It's cold too. Last night and maybe tonight too we sleep in the tent in the shelter to stay warm. If we bring the boots into the tent maybe they won't freeze. Hopefully this cold snap will break in the next couple of days or a week or so.  I mean,  it's Georgia.

It's also very foggy.  We have only gotten what you might call "a view" twice. Both were photographed and will be in the upcoming imgur album. Today we strode into a sunny spot for about a half an hour. It was nice.  Then we turned around the mountain spur and it was a w foggy winter hell again. Georgia,  come on.

Anyways, we're 2.5 miles or so from Unicoi gap where we'll head into Hiawassee for a re-up. We're trying to spend the night in a hotel. Sanitary toilets, showers, laundry, groceries. Aight Aight.

And Internet access. I'll post the imgur album when we get there