[at-l] Hiking Weather

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_Every day you may make  progress. Every step may be fruitful. Yet there will 
stretch out before you an  ever-lengthening, ever-ascending, ever-improving 
path. You know you will never  get to the end of the journey. But this, so far 
from discouraging, only adds to  the joy and glory of the climb._ 
(http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/2755.html)    Winston Churchill
 
Hiking in the heat is brutal.  How do those on the AT cope  with the heat?  
Is there a tendency to hike in the very early morning hours  and stay under the 
trees during the heat of the day and then hike again after  the Sun has 
passed its Zenith?  Does a tent under a tarp aid in cooling or  is it too hot to 
even consider getting into a tent?  
 
I haven't seen any trip reports from hikers about their heat  hikes.  
 
Skylander