Mile 578.8
Elevation 2,425
Miles Hiked 10.7
Jukebox and I left Chestnut Knob Shelter just after 7:00 AM. The plan was to hike 22 miles to the town of Bland, VA. The forecast is for rain on Tuesday, and we were going to get a motel room to wait it out. To say our reach exceeded our grasp is an understatement.
The hiking did not have any steep and long ascents, but it did have a bunch of short ups and downs that made up for the lack of one or two long, steep climbs. By the time I arrived at Jenkins Shelter, I was done. Jukebox felt the same because he was there waiting for me.
The shelter is not a bad one, and if the rain is hard on Tuesday, we’ll probably spend a zero day here.
