Rain, fog, and sunburns

The trees are blooming but only just starting, so the first couple of days when it was sunny all day everyone got sunburned. There was a brief hailstorm one afternoon, but no real rain until the afternoon/evening I stayed in Neel Gap.

So far, I've only had to camp in the rain once. The rain started after sundown sometime and contunued all night. It was funny, I woke up in the middle of the night thinking that one of my hammok straps was slipping down the tree. So, I found myself laying there feeling like any minute the strap was going to slip enough to drop me flat on my back. After much wet, midnight investigation, I learned that the vibration of the occasional rouge raindrop landing on my hammock strap was being transferred down the line and being misinterpreted by my brain.

I slept peacefully and dryly after this discovery.

The following day was foggy with an intermittent drizzle, very beautiful in a different sort of way.