Total Miles: 1000.7
There was a thunderstorm expected today, so I booked it to the first shelter as fast as I could. It was foggy and misting when I left, but I thought I could beat the worst of it, being only 4 miles away. I could feel the wind starting to pick up, so my pace quickened. When I made it to the shelter, I checked the weather and saw there was now a tornado warning as well as the predicted thunderstorms. That was about the point I decided to stay put. This was a good sturdy shelter to wait it out in. I sat and watched the wind knock down branches and blow most of the remaining leaves off the trees - nothing tornado strength, but not something I would want to be hiking through or even in my tent for. It started to get cold because the wind was blowing rain into the shelter, so I moved to the loft. It was great that this one had this feature on a day like today. The rain stopped in the late afternoon, but I decided to stay here since the next shelter was still 13 miles away. There was a rain soaked squirrel running around the picnic table and the edge of the shelter, so it looks like I might have company tonight. As long as stays out of my food, I won't mind.
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