Started the day with a goal of getting to the Roan Mountain shelter (22 miles) which was the highest shelter on the AT, at over 6200ft. The morning was nearly windless and foggy.

The first part of the hike was through a really cool pine forest. The trail was covered in pine needles and easy to walk on.

We climbed for a while after that, walking along a ridgeline. We passed a couple nice rock formations.

We took a break at a shelter for lunch and saw an awesome bear sign.

Later in the day, we started going downhill and the section of trail was full of leaves. It was rough walking as the leaves were about 6 in deep and would hide rocks.

It started to thunder and rain, so we cut our day short at around 13 miles and stayed at Clyde Smith Shelter rather than dodge lightening crossing Roan Mountain.