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[at-l] Stormy weather



Amen.

We took a zero day in Franklin last year when a storm like the current one
was spawning tornadoes. Then we went back out and walked thru the rain until
we got to New Hampshire. Magically the rain stopped very near the state
line.

Ken
www.GottaWalk.com

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bett Middleton" <mtnstream73@eufaula.rr.com>
To: <at-l@mailman.backcountry.net>; "Paul Young" <pd.young@comcast.net>
Sent: Monday, May 31, 2004 8:17 PM
Subject: Re: [at-l] Stormy weather


> Paul, If you want to hear about rain, rain, and more rain and how the
> thru-hikers handle it, go to trailjournals.com and read some of the
journals
> from 2003.  Check out Jan Liteshoe, or Wench, or Hotdog's journals and you
> will soon see that you just have to keep walking if you want to make it
all
> the way.  Of course, they did take off a day now and then to dry out, but
> then usually went back to the trail only to get soaking wet again.  It was
a
> very wet year.  The journals give a pretty good picture of how tired they
> got of it, and how hard it was to handle mentally, day after day after
day.
>
> Swallowtail
>
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