Thunder and pouring rain starting around 4am. By 6:30 it was fog and slight drizzle. Jack the Tripper and I were up at the same time but he wasn’t planning to travel far, so I headed out alone at 7:50.
My shoes and socks got very wet from tge damp grass atcthe edges of the trail, but it wasn’t really raining. It started to clear around noon. Not much to say about the day because I’m too beat, but I lost the knife I use to cut cheese, started to develop a shin splint on my left leg so need to take care of that, and I spent the day more or less on the botder if Virginia and West Virginia. Views on the left or north are WV and views on the right or south are VA. No views much of the day.
In the evening I wound up at a pretty sad campsite with Tinker, who first did a thru hike ten years ago at the age of 70. He may be the oldest person to do a thru hike unassisted if he succeeds, because it turns out the others in the 80+ category all had help of some kind or another.
Mile 644.5 to mile 666 = 21.5 miles. The last 6 miles took forever.
