It's like putting on a wet bathing suit

Day: 53 (May 17)
Starting location: Rice Field Shelter
Ending location: Bailey Gap Shelter
Miles today: 16.4
Miles total: 649.6

Putting on wet clothes isn't the most fun thing to do in the morning. But when you are a thru hiker, sometimes you don't have a choice. Surpisingly, our clothes dried out somewhat fast.

Thunder, Jason and I had a pretty average hiking day. After lunch we looked in our guidebook and noticed that there was an entry for the Captains house. His house is located right across a stream and inorder to get there you had a take a zip line across. I have never been on a zip line and it was much fun. Once we reached the other side there was a note from the Captain, "sodas in the fridge, get you one".

We helped ourselves to a can of soda and relaxed. Up pulled a car and out stepped the infamous Captain. We talked with him for a while and he generously offered up his plush lawn if we wanted to camp. We knew we had to push on, so we parted ways and thanked him for his hospitality.

P.S. Happy Birthday Katie! We will celebrate at lip pub when we roll through DC in a few weeks!



Captains zip line



This soda holds Thunder's name

Conan + Backwards