Day 4 & 5

Day 4 & 5. We took a zero day in the woods at Lance Creek campsite (mile 24 on the AT) because my knee started hurting. I’m doing my best to listen to my body and not just power though, which was hard the first couple of days because of some crazy rushes of endorphins. The first night we hung out around the campfire with a whole slew of other thru hikers, young and old, pretty “normal” and some a little off their rockers. Everyone is a character out here. During our zero day (meaning we hike 0 miles), a man named “Semi” and his sweet dog Rojo walked up and I asked if he knew anything about bad knees. He did in fact and then handed me a little knee brace. We spent the day resting, I “did some laundry” and Jacob made a sling (like David’s) out of paracord. It’s getting pretty Swiss Family Robinson up in here. And I am seeing all the ways that, as Jacob says so often, The Trail provides. #at2019
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I’ll start posting what mileage we are on and when I do, know that it is the mileage on the AT and doesn’t include our total mileage with the 8.8 of the Approach Trail added on.