No matter rain or shine, cold or hot, rocky or muddy, we love our big, beautiful earth every single day of the year π 04.16.18 π€π Although the weather was awful last Sunday, it started to clear up and the sun came out just as we finished breakfast and made the quick and easy decision to drive to the trail on our off day together! Our first POI was Lake Tiorati in New York, where we took some pretty crappy showers and took full advantage of the vending machines last year on our thru-hike. We never stopped at the Fingerboard Shelter last year, so we decided to head south towards it and the Lemon Squeezer. The trail was a moving stream, but we were so happy to be outside and hiking. We made it to Fingerboard when it started to rain again, so we took a short and chilly break before hiking back to the van. Next on the agenda was Bear Mountain State Park, where we hiked south on the trail up those countless stone steps to the viewpoint. This hike was quite hilarious considering when we hiked north last year we were coming down all of those stairs. At the time I was thankful we were going down them instead of up, and now here we are happily hiking up! π€£ Anyway, we had a bit of a hard time figuring out where around the trail we could park the van for the night, but eventually made it to Dennytown Road where we peacefully slept along our beloved trail. Obviously one of the greatest perks of having this traveling job with Cirque is how dang close we are to the AT right now! π #appalachiantrail #thruhikers #thruhikercouple #ourdayoff #adventuringeverywhere #laketiorati #newyork #chasingwhiteblazes #whiteblazes #earthdayiseveryday #naturephotography #chaconation #optoutside #vanlife #traillife #thebestlife #lifeat2mph (at Bear Mountain State Park)
