Blogs from Bland, Virginia, United States, North America

Virginia is Awesome! The trail here is nicely graded (not so steep) and the views are amazing! I spent the first half of it with Pocket and we had a lot of fun taking short days and waiting for others to catch back up. Now that Yearbook, Grittz and 2-Liter are with us again the miles have picked up. I'm hoping to summit Springer on my birthday Nov. 18th and be home in time for thanks giving. I'm torn between being excited to come home and not wanting the trip to end. It's funny to feel like it's almost over with almost 600 miles left to go. The weather is supposed to really cool off next week and hopefully I'm prepared. Hope you enjoy the pictures and I'll see about filling you in again just before ... read more

Walked off another map yesterday, only two more maps and we are out of VA! Not a bad night’s sleep for a primitive camp site. There was some slope, but nothing we couldn't deal with. Those of you who know CC will be amazed at how she has no problems waking up at 6-6:30AM and functioning. She really isn't a morning person, but life on the trail has forced her into it :-) We were on the trail by 8:30AM. We bounced between 2,700' and 3,200' all the way to US52 into the town of Bland. We had a great pace and made the seven miles in 3.5hrs. The trail had plenty of switchbacks and few rocks. We crossed over I77 and when I saw the "Runaway Truck Ramp" on the northbound side, I knew ... read more