Hello again, this weekend was a long one because of fall break so we decided to change it up and take a break from biking and go hiking instead. So we loaded our gear and headed up North to the Superior Hiking Trail (SHT). Everything was set to be an exciting and relaxing weekend. It was a little cool but almost perfect hiking weather, about 50 degrees during the day and getting down to around 35 at night. We got off to kind of a late start the first day and only made it about 6 miles and set up camp and had a nice dinner in an amazing camp site under a clear star lit night. It began to sprinkle a couple of hours after we went to bed and the night got ugly about 3am. After about three hours of pounding rain our old tent began to leak and we were awoken by Kelly's scream "I'm wet, I just got rained on!" The rain finally leaked through the window and dropped on Kelly's face. We woke up and realized that the foot of our tent had a puddle in it and our sleeping bags were wet and so was our TP! After a short discussion and a look at the map we decide that we would finish the Split Rock loop and call it a day. We were beaten, unfortunately! We had come prepared knowing that there was a good chance of rain unfortunately we didn't anticipate that our old tent wouldn't hold up. I guess it's time to start looking for a replacement, there's no packing up and going home in May. On a good note we went down and visited family in the Twin Cities and went for a nice day hike through Afton State Park.
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