June 1st Hot Springs, NC

The past few days our bodies have been feeling pretty good for the most part. I think that we are really getting in shape out here. I weighed myself today and i weigh about 165 pounds! When i left i was 183. The place we are staying in is called Elmer's. it is an old Victorian mansion with lots of rooms. It is mainly for hikers to stay while they are resupplying just like us. Recently we have profected the art of running while we are hiking. When we are going down hill our packs push us and we fly down hills only using our poles to slow us down a little bit. We figured out using the GPS that we can pick us about 5 miles per hour doing that! Lets hope no one gets hurt. I am glad to be out of the Smoky Mountains. Although there were some great views, there were some very hard climbs. It rained most of the time we were. We are about 180 miles south of Virginia, it is going to be so cool to hit there. We are all exited that we are starting to feel a lot better and do 20 miles days like we had planned to. Our spirits have been a lot higher and have been hiking and feeling a lot better. It really makes the trip better. I even climbed a tree right before we left the smokies. It looked as if it had been burned or and insect had killed it. either way it was a cool tree. We were also up in a cloud when i climbed it. We hope to have more days like we did yesterday where we hiked 23 miles. So far it has been a great experience!

Mike "Rolex"
GPS Logs:
http://wbafinc.motionbased.com
Williams Brothers Adventure Foundation:
http://www.wbafinc.org