Shenandoah

To take advantage of a three day holiday weekend, I drove south to meet up with Brad, Raechel, and Krista for some hiking in Shenandoah. Although in 180 days, all four of us will set out onto our NOBO PCT attempt, this trip was not intended for training. In any case, Brad was so excited about his new 65L Deuter that he used it on three of the four day hikes, insisting that we fill it with all of our things. Raechel and Krista plan on sharing a three person MSR tent on the PCT and Brad tried out his new 1+ REI Half-Dome (which will be returned after two nights of rain leakage). I wore my new Altra Lone Peak 4 trail-runners all weekend, which worked fantastic compared to the first time I tried. Friendly reminder never to start out wearing zero drop shoes on an 18 mile hike....yeah. It was great to have the lodge to camp out in and play meme games when the weather turned south. We also took advantage of the breakfast buffet, like true thru-hikers! Last I'll mention that I finally stepped foot on the AT for the first time! And of course I took us on connecting AT trails at every opportunity.

Happy Hiking,
Rebecca