Appalachian Trail (day 2) - Long Creek Falls to Blood Mountain Shelter / mile 29
Today, it was raining, heavily. Despite that I still did good progress, the price I paid was that everything other than my spare clothes and sleeping bag (which I keep in separate dry sacks) got wet. In fact even the hood of my sleeping bag got wet as I knocked the water I was boiling for dinner with it. Bugger. Few people that I met on the trail today (and there wasn't many) were actually evacuating from it because of the rain. Interesting perk of Appalachian Trail (at least so far) is that you are never far away from civilisation, so while crossing a forrest road every few miles you have a chance to catch a car which will take you back to human lands. After eight hours of rain my hands turned into marshmallows, my t shirt and underwear were completely drenched and so I decided to stay the night at the Blood Mountain Shelter, which was a two roomed, roofed building with two wooden window frames in each room, there was no door or windows so the wind (and rain) had a free reign insi...