Hikin' Mt. Cammarer again!

When Eric and I decided to kid Mt. Cammerer again, we had learned some thing for last year and with doing it a second time we new a little more what to expect from it. 

With not having Livvy this year and no longer nursing we were both hoping that our stoppage time would be less then it was last year. Although this year we had another challenge, the rain. Unlike last year when we had clear sunny skies. It had rained most of the night and in the early morning it was still raining a little but we wanted to get up and get started. 

Since we were both up pretty early and hoping the rain wouldn't last too long we go up and dressed when it was still dark. When we started up the trail we discovered we had an additional challenge… the sign. We had planed to hike Low cap and Lower Mt. Cammerer, and neither one of us could remember where the bridges were located. But since it was just the two of us we continued with our plan. 

I think both Eric and I would agree that Low Gap is the toughest part of this hike. You are climbing a good elevation in about a 2.5 mile span. I still needed to take one break before we hit the AT but other then that I felt I was in better shape then I was the previous year so we made it to the AT in a little better time. 

At this point we were relieved to see the split for the AT. We were both grateful the the rain had stopped at this point and we only had it the first mile or so into the hike. We stopped and rested and got some breakfast and we were headed up the AT. 

Since it had rained most of the day the humidity was awful but it was still a nice hike up. This year we hadn't seen any other hikers to this point so it was nice to have the trail all to ourselves. It was a little foggy this year but we could still see some nice views as we hiked up the mountain. 

We ended up making pretty good time on the AT, and I have to set when I seen the split off to Mt. Cammerer trail I was a little surprised that we had made it as quickly as we did. At this point it was just under a mile to go to get to the observation tower. 

Unlike last year we had the place all to ourselves. This seemed to be a pretty popular trail but we spend about 45 mins here looking around and eating lunch and no one else hiked up. After resting we packed up our stuff and started our hike down the mountain. We were planning to go down Lower Mt. Cammerer so we wanted to make sure we still had lots of time to get back to camp.