🌜 Tent City @ Devil’s Backbone

We got a little bit of a late start today because there were rain showers in the morning, but we made it to Priest mountain for lunch… on the way we stopped by Spy Rock which was an incredible rock formation with large divots that pooled water. Frogs had laid eggs and there were hundreds of tadpoles swimming in them!

At lunch we devised an ambitious plan for free camping and hot showers at a local brewery called Devil’s Backbone. Great, but we needed to hustle to make this work: 15 miles by 8pm! Game on!

We finished Priest Mountain and the Three Ridges with full throttle effort to get to Reid’s Gap ASAP. In an impossible stroke of luck a grandmother and her grandkids offered us a ride to the brewery the moment we stepped into the parking lot 😍

We arrived to a huge lawn with outdoor seating, fire pits, a high end restaurant and a live rock-cover band playing. 100% expected this to be a hole in the wall with a field for hikers out back but this place is actually a major destination! Camping (including hot showers) is totally free😎

We had an awesome dinner and chatted with some local folks. Ran into a couple fellow hikers (54Cold was one).

Awesome day folks! 👏
22.1 miles on trail
AT mile 845.5Read more