Day 15 (July 23rd)

Pleasant walk along an old sandy logging road. Came to our first actually dead spring, not even a trickle to be found. Maybe that Manik´s not so crazy after all.
After a while entered areas of active logging, with some patches completely clear cut. Naturally some blazes get destroyed in the process, and we ended up getting a little lost. We finally followed an unmarked road to a blue-blazed side trail back to our red-blazed SNP trail, and found this cute shelter on the way, which isn´t marked on the maps. This is the only shelter we´ve seen here that looks like it´s actually made to sleep in; all the others are more like covered picnic tables. Sadly we missed the last spring because of our detour, and there´s no water here, so we have to hike on, along a very high and dry ridge on a very hot day. Very delighted to finally get to the spring on the other side.