June 30th Check-In

All is well on this incredibly hot Saturday afternoon. Click here to see Matt and James' location as of 12:30pm this afternoon. Luckily, it sounds as if they aren't being as directly affected in the mountains by the heat wave hammering the East Coast.

As of this afternoon, they have passed the Blacksburg area and are passing to the west of Roanoke, VA. I hope to hear from Matt before the weekend ends and ask him if the storms that have hit central Virginia are affecting them a few hours south.

Hard to believe that we're mere hours away from the beginning of July. The hikers have now been on the Trail for 71 days and will soon be entering the meat of their hike in Virginia. Looking at the map to the right, though they still have a ways to go, they have now covered an impressive portion of the Trail.

AT for CZC continues...