Nostalgia for the future

This weekend in Damascus, Virginia is the annual Trail Days event to celebrate everything and everyone great about the Appalachian Trail. Jeremiah Johnson and WolfPack, both who I started and finished the PCT with last summer as well as AT thru Alums from class of '09, are attending and updating me on the happenings. Damascus, Virginia is a great town for this event, it embraces the hiking culture and welcomes hiker trash with open arms. The trail goes right through quaint little Damascus and everywhere you look it's AT this or AT that, it's well deserving of its moniker as "Trail Town, USA."  I have yet to attend the Trail Days event, but it's on the to-do list.     http://www.traildays.us/

So of course, with Trail Days this weekend and starting the CDT with Safety Officer right around the corner I'm feeling nostalgic. Here is a pic of Safety Officer and myself in Damascus, Virginia when we hiked the AT SOBO (southbound) in 2011 at one of the must-stop spots while in town, Quincey's Pizza. You can see we have our rain jackets on, we ended up taking an extra zero day here in Damascus, yay more pizza and beer! It's tough enough to leave a fantastic trail town like this, but when its raining...ZERO!