Day 40

Friday, April 10, 2009
Day 40

Weather:
Isolate thunderstorms

Today’s Hike:
River Rd. To Deep Gap - 12.1 miles

We woke up this morning to a weather report calling for t- storms and tornado warnings. My Aunt threatened to take us up to Shenandoah National Park where the weather was better. "You are my fathers sister" I told her with a laugh. "He would be proud."

An hour later we were standing back at Uncle Johnny's, and we began hiking out into our first t-storm of the season. The storm quickly turned to a drizzle and was completely done by noon. The rest of the day was gorgeous until 6pm when the next wave of t-storms passed through. By this time we were laying in our tent, counting the time between the lightening and the thunder. The closest was 2 miles. By 8:30pm we were sleeping.