Appalachian Trail (day 54) - Dans Pulpit to Danielsville / mile 1266
It doesn't matter how small the rain is, if it falls on you all day it will make you wet. It wasn't raining when I woke up though, everything was nice and dry when I was packing up. I knew the forecast was predicting rain all day, but the forecast was wrong in the past. You never knew precisely what's the weather going to be in the Appalachian mountains, well to a degree. It did start to drizzle two hours later and it carried on for the entire day but at this point I was already commited to the white blaze. Other than the weather it was a surprisingly fun day, I went over the Knifes Edge a tricky rock scrambling section fairly early in the morning, I've folded my trekking poles here and used hands to manoeuvre around the rocky ridge, the scramble lasted about 15 minutes. The path from here was either extremely rocky or a perfectly smooth and easy forest road walk. I've met just two other hikers today: Half Stick and Not Yet, every...