The plan was to leave Daleville early and cover big miles
today. Only one problem, I was still
trying to get my hiking poles back from the ATC Ridge Runner Matt. So Runner Mink and I decided to go to
breakfast. After breakfast, I started
calling the ATC number hoping they would open at 7. At 7:30, we started out and hiking a mile to
I-81 where we waited and finally reach the ATC at 8:50 a.m.. It took until 9:00 to get a call back from
Matt and we made a plan to meet at the next road crossing in 30 mins.. We arrived at the cross road first but right
on time Matt pulled up and within a few minutes I was reunited with my hiking
poles. What an amazing bit of trail angel
work that was. I left them on the edge
of a busy parking lot full of casual day hikers, where a ATC Ridge Runner, who
I happened to speak with on the trail earlier, saw them recognized them and
picked them up and walk to the next shelter to leave a message……AMAZING! Hats off to Matt the ATC Ridge Runner. So around 10:00 a.m. we start our hike in
earnest and hiked hard for most of the day.
The hike was rolling ups and downs all day but no significant changes in
elevation. We crossed the Blue Ridge
Parkway 5 or 6 times throughout the day.
It was around 6:00 p.m. went we
arrived our destination of Cove Mountain Shelter. We had hiked 25.0 miles, my longest day
ever.
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