We got a late start on the trail today stepping off from Hot Springs around 1:30pm. The trail went right through town with AT markers on the sidewalk . At the edge of town, the trail crossed over the French Broad river then ran down along side of it for a while. Then...

Slept in after the rain storm, getting up around 9am and hit the trail an hour or so later. After a couple miles we stopped to get water at a spring fed steam about 300 yards down hill from the trail. In the afternoon, the trail crossed a road, with a small “store”...