Day 2 on the AZT

Mileage: 18 miles

Weather: strong winds, rain at night, cloudy, 51 degrees during the day and 29 degrees at night.

We started the day in cold and wet conditions. We saw 4 deer within the first 10 minutes! They were much smaller than what we are used to back in Indiana.

We needed to resupply our water. We had to hike 1.2 miles off trail to find water. The source was excellent. It was clean, filtered well, and tasted good. They call it the WildLife Tank on FarOut. We decided to have a nice lunch at this water supply. Freeze dried sausage and eggs with oatmeal and hot chocolate! We prepared all our meals at home with our freeze dryer. Very pleased so far with it!

The hike was pretty smooth for the most part with not much elevation change. We had pretty views, and lots more cows! We decided to set up camp when we saw the clouds rolling in and we were about .5 miles from the next water source. We had plenty of water to make dinner and hydrate before calling it a night. Family Mule can have the tent set up in under 3 minutes or so it seemed (I need to time him)! We had freeze dried spaghetti for dinner, YUM! We made it in the tent just as the rain started. The wind and rain were beating on the tent all night but our Big Agnus tent held up well!