Beautiful weather, horror show feet.

I left franklin on sunday after spending an extra day there.  I made up a day as i hiked past Wayah bald and on to the next shelter.  Met some new people (gail, spoon, cheddar, boxhead, runoff) and ran into bookworm and magpie agian.

Hiked (hobbled) into NOC yesterday.  All the downhill aggravated my knee a bit.  Nothing like last time, just some mild pains here and there.  We spent about 3 hours at the rivers end restaurant eating and drinking.  I was able to ice my knee there while numbing my aches with icecold beers.
Looks like today will be another zero day.  I dont want to, but my body feels like it needs it. 

Mentally i want to push on.  However, the new shoes rubbed my left foot (its smaller than my right) and formed that blister on the bottom and a small one in my heel.  Today the bottom blister is a bit infected, so im tending to it with rubbing alcohol and antibiotic ointment.

I bought some superfeet insoles which should solve the blister issue and provide extra cushioning, support and stability to help with my knee.

Im taking a picture if my feet today as they seem to be a hot mess.  Between calluses, blisters (old and new) and 3 soon to fall off purple toenails......they are pretty gnarly looking, lol.

Since its so nice today a couple of us are thinking about renting kayaks and doing a run down the Nantahala river.  A day on the water with some rapids will make up for taking a day off ;-)