Hail - By Harrison - 03-30-18

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So the Nor' Easter that delayed our trip is here and is pretty annoying.  So the first thing is that it rained nonstop today.  We hiked 7 miles in the same time it took us to hike twice that.  So we stopped from time to time to take shelter.  It was 100% precipitation 100% of the time.  It is actually raining as I type this.

Now I get to the title.  It was hailing yesterday and today.  Today it started around lunch and hailed so much it looked like it had snowed an inch.  We thankfully had stopped and got video and pictures of the pebble sized hail.  Honestly I think that it is going to be interesting trying to hike after getting used to hiking through the storm.

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