We rolled out again this morning at 5:30 am and started our final day of hiking. The day was very warm and the sky pleasntly patched with white candy clouds. For much of the morning we had intermittent views of the inviting, blue waters of Fontana Lake, which we had first glimpsed the previous evening while descending from Thunderhead and Rockytop, and which was our final destination. Eliza's knee continued to bother her today, as the travel was pedominantly downhill. For the most part, however, the grades were easy and the trails well groomed. This was quite a relief after many days of hard travelin' on rocky, muddy, steep, rutted, and rooted trails.
We passed a whole slough of hikers ascending into the mountains today.
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