Woke up bright and early just before 5am. Luckily now rain. Sun doesn’t come up until 7:30am, so got my first experience with night hiking. It wasn’t too bad (don’t see why people like it) and I was in a group of 7, so safety in numbers. Neat thing was we heard a very loud owl 🦉. Thankfully the rain never came in as expected, which was good because Blood Mountain descent was a killer. My right knee started hurting during the last descent yesterday and every step down Blood Mountain was painful.
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