[at-l] 2003 Rain Year

[askowronek at mindspring.com (amy)]

On Saturday, June 7, 2003, at 11:58  PM, Charles Copeland wrote:

> I have a friend that just returned from doing a section?from Harper's 
> Ferry to Duncannon (?) and he said it was all wet.? Some places the 
> trail is under water and in some places you have to fight to keep your 
> boots on.? He said it was very hard on the feet because they were 
> always wet and it was hard to keep the mud from oozing in over the 
> tops of the boots.
>

I did some in North Carolina, Tennessee, and Virginia in May.  My feet
still haven't recovered.  The constant soaking really does nothing good
for you.  Sploshing up and down mountains in a slippery (and somehow
at the same time sticky) clay slurry is awkward too.

I'm happy not to be a thruhiker this year.

-amy
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