Cold Night Tonight

Larry stopped by to drop off Kel's extra hiking shoes and dirty clothes at the house(I don't want to open the bag!) and to catch me up on their visit last night. The hikers were so pleased to have Larry take them into town for a cheeseburger deluxe, milk, apple pie with ice cream, and hot coffee! He also had brought them hot soup (which they also consumed before taking off again) and took the italians and whoopie pies with them for today's hike. Larry also downloaded pictures onto his computer (he is always so prepared!), and heard stories of the hike and about the 3 hikers that they have met on the trail already (Snowman and Sparkplug are two of them). Kelly called about 5pm to say they had made it to the Poplar Ridge Lean-To for the night. The temperature was already down to 40 degrees and still windy, and they were trying to stay warm. Not sure if they could get a fire going because everything is still so saturated it's hard to find dry wood to keep it going. At least it had stopped raining! Tomorrow they will be heading on toward Spaulding Mountain Lean-To. Clint hopes to meet up with them at Overton's Stream. He will have warm clothes for Kel, more maps, and cookies from Helen to perk up the hikers! We have such great family and friends!