Thursday, April 14th

We woke up around 8, made ourselves coffee, and were out hiking by 9. It was really cloudy when we woke up and when we started hiking. We looked at the forecast and it said it would be cloudy all day. We hiked past Woods Hole (which was where we wanted to camp last night) and got to Blood Mountain by noon. Blood Mountain was quite the hike but the weather kept clearing up for us. We stayed at Blood Mountain for lunch and stayed at an outlet spot with a cool view. After lunch, we went to the top of Blood and saw an amazing view. It was the best view we have seen so far. We met and talked to an older man named Tim at the top of Blood. We asked him if we could interview him and he said that was fine. Unfortunately, the Go-pro was full of memory so we lost the interview. We figured we might see Tim again and then we'll hopefully get the interview then. We left Blood Mountain and got to Neel's Gap around 6, which was unfortunate since the store closes at 6. We couldn't resupply there and we'll have to wait for tomorrow morning. Although we did catch some "trail magic"when we got to Neel's. A couple of men from the Cleveland Baptist Church came to Neel's Gap and got all the hikers spaghetti, salad, iced tea, and oatmeal cream pies. This was delicious and we were very thankful for the Cleveland Baptist Church. We then left Neel's and camped right by the store so that we could wake up, shower, and then resupply. We set up the tent on the ground but just the tarp. We just tried this out since we were tired and didn't really want to set up the tent and the enos would have been very cold. So we just set up our pads on the tarp with our sleeping bags and fell asleep.