Author name: Robin

Getting underway was 10 minutes more efficient than testerday… 1h40m from alarm to hitting rhe trail. Seems like I should […]

My phone alarm woke me at 6:30. It had been a good night’s sleep. Noy too cold. There was enough

Sleeping proved challenging.It was very windy and cold, and I went to bed with my t-shirt, thermal undershirt and puffy

I slept over at my parents’ house until 2:45 in the morning, ate a couple of muffins, and then caught

Since I had two weeks to wait for my return flight to Asheville,  I decided to get busy with an

I spent a fair bit of time in the first 2-3 days after my return reflecting on what hadn’t been

Day 10 started inauspiciously at about 2 a.m. when I woke feeling very chilly. The inside of the tent, and

Finally realizing I wasn’t going to get back to sleep I checked my phone and saw that it was 6:45

I had looked up hostels in Franklin, North Carolina, since it was close to the shelter I was leaving. I

Not much to report on the day other than that it was very long. The five guys sleeping in the