Rain makes Appalachian Trail a soggy slog - Roanoke Times

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<table border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="7" style="vertical-align:top;"><tr><td width="80" align="center" valign="top"><font style="font-size:85%;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t&fd=R&usg=AFQjCNHzhsVNay6bl_fwjlnXHmJpCRRJ5A&url=http://www.roanoke.com/news/roanoke/wb/286991"><img src="http://nt1.ggpht.com/news/tbn/BdBp8NTfNUmNNM/6.jpg" alt="" border="1" width="80" height="80" /><br /><font size="-2">Roanoke Times</font></a></font></td><td valign="top" class="j"><font style="font-size:85%;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><br /><div style="padding-top:0.8em;"><img alt="" height="1" width="1" /></div><div class="lh"><a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t&fd=R&usg=AFQjCNHzhsVNay6bl_fwjlnXHmJpCRRJ5A&url=http://www.roanoke.com/news/roanoke/wb/286991"><b>Rain makes <b>Appalachian Trail</b> a soggy slog</b></a><br /><font size="-1"><b><font color="#6f6f6f">Roanoke Times</font></b></font><br /><font size="-1">During this rainy May, many <b>Appalachian Trail</b> hikers say they have no dry clothes. They wake up in a damp tent, pull on soggy, smelly clothes, and hike up and down muddy mountains in the rain carrying a pack weighed down with wet gear. <b>...</b></font><br /><font size="-1" class="p"></font><br /><font class="p" size="-1"><a class="p" href="http://news.google.com/news/more?pz=1&ned=us&ncl=dIqLEmZwMvp7EKM"><nobr><b></b></nobr></a></font></div></font></td></tr></table>

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