We had a few days with no service. Now I can catch up on email, food and rest. Has been so humid.
We covered some difficult trail on the way to Four Pines. The “train” with their dog arrived just after we did. Suddenly they were claiming it was perfectly well behaved.
The trail here had places with iron rungs for climbing.
One place the Appalachian Trail differs from the PCT is that getting on trail before 7:00 is really early on the AT. On the PCT and CDT getting on trail around 5:30 am was just a good day.
The issue we had was that Angel’s Rest to Four Pines is about 70 miles or more without a resupply in between. We wanted to not carry more than four days of food.
Our solution was to slack pack 21 miles which made it 50ish miles. Once we hit the trail with a full resupply.
We had some long days. The last stretch was only 7ish miles but was really rough. We beat the rain to get off the roughest sections before it hit.
The market and store at Four Pimes is really oriented to through hikers. Neat for what they stock.