3/17/14- Snowed In at Byrd's Nest Shelter
Cold but thankful to be out of the snow.
The college students in blue jeans decided to continue hiking today. They broke out a map and decided they would do a loop hike just down the mountain from our location.
Eric and I spent the day hanging out in the shelter. It was still very windy, cold and the snow drifts were a few feet deep in places. Skyline Drive was closed, so it seemed like a particularly poor time to hike deeper into the park. I was really regretting not bringing good maps, they would have allowed me to choose potential "bail out" points and have some sense of how far we were from safety. Without better conditions and Skyline drive open, I did not want to hike away from Thorton Gap.
Not many pictures from this day, I was starting to run out of phone battery life and given the need to coordinate our rescue, check weather, etc I tried to keep the phone turned off most of the day.
Eric spent much of the day reading 'A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson. For those of you who haven't read it, it is a great read about a guy who decides to hike the Appalachian Trail and brings along a fat, out of shape friend. They don't even manage to hike half the miles, but it's a good story. Humm...I'm starting to notice some parallels here.
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