Bald Mountain Shelter to the Nolichucky River
16.4 miles, 341.5 miles total
I woke up at 5:30 today because I knew I had to meet my dad at the Nolichucky at 1:30. I started hiking by 7AM, so I basically hiked 16 miles in 6 hours. It was quite exhausting. But there were a couple of cool things about today's hike.
To start, it was mostly downhill - the overall descent today was about 3500 feet. Second, I hiked from Spivey Gap to the Nolichucky River today, and since I have hiked that section 2-3 times per summer for the past 4 summers, I felt quite comfortable with it. (For those of you that don't know, we hike this section with campers at Lutherock, a summer camp where I worked.) Also, pretty random, but I saw a lot of butterflies today. They would just stay with me for a couple feet and then go on their way.
Around 1:30PM, my wonderful father picked me up, and we ate lunch and he drove me to Camp Lutherock, where I will stay for the next four days. Time for some rest!
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