We made it 8 miles past a georgous viewpoint into Mooney Gap today. In checking the weather, it's supposed to drop to the single digits in the mountains tonight. We decided to grab a shuttle back to Franklin and spend a night in town, then slackpack the next few sections.
Slackpacking is when you don't carry your heavy pack and only carry food and water and get a shuttle to and from the section of trail you're currently hiking. It's been recommended to help Scribe's ankle, being less weight on it and all, and hopefully we can pick up some of our lost mileage.
Mooney Gap is about an hour drive from Franklin on Forest Service roads so we had a bit of a wait ahead of us. We built a small fire next to the road and prepared to wait, after a few minutes it started to snow. We were very excited when the shuttle finally arrived, and we didn't have to struggle to keep warm.
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