The sun was peeking through the clouds, Everything was dry but our shoes and sox. There is nothing worse than putting on cold wet sox after a warm dry night in the sleeping bag. A minor glich occurred as I packed - riped a 4 inch hole in my backpack while stuffing it - oooops. Susan mended it 10 minutes and we were off sloshing down the trail. Now, just because the rain had stopped, doesnt mean we dont get wet. Everything in the forest is wet. We got drenched from dripping wet tree limbs, bushes and ferns.
The forest on Shavers Mt. is very wet, it reminded me of the Smokey Mts. Here there is Red Spruce, moss covered rocks and ferns.
About 10am we decended to open fields surrounding the East Fork Rails to Trails trail. A coverted RR track that ran along the Glady river. There were a tremendous amount of wildflowers, yellow, purple and white, and an equal number of butterflies fluttering between the flowers. This was a 3 mile walk into the little Hamlet of Glady. Glady had a few small farms and a Post Office. We ate lunch in the shade of a maple tree at the PO while our shoes dried in the sun. We spent the ret of th afternoon walking on road, then trail that shaddowed the Glady River. About 5pm we stopped and swam in the river. Two hours latter we found a very camp site on the river bank. This was one of our best days on the ALT. We walked 21 miles today.
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