Saturday day 3

Day 3

• Miles Traveled 15.6
• Shelter: The Luxurious Blood Mountain Cabins
• High Point: Tie Between The View From Blood Mountain And Pizza
• Low Point: The Brutal Descent Off Blood Mountain Into Needs Gap

Day 3 was a doozie. Climbed out of the shelter before dawn. Hit the trail with our head lamps on. We knew storms were expected Sunday evening so we wanted to push 15.6 miles to Neels Gap for shelter and we did just that. We knew we had quite a day ahead of us because we had the highest mountain in Georgia ahead of us, Blood mountain. It was a great day. We passed two gaps with trail magic breakfast to push us through our day. Definitely pushed us to our limits but the payoff was awesome. After climbing Blood Mountain we had some amazing views. The decent into Neels gap was pretty brutal on the knees but we were pretty happy to see the famous mountain crossing store. Immediately I dialed the Blood Mountain cabins to see if they had availability and they just had someone cancel and they had a cabin open up. It was our lucky day. Hot pizza, laundry, shower were completed in that order and then a very goods nights rest.