After my wife and I hiked about 13 miles last week I swore I'd never hike in jeans again. I've never been so tired and the jeans just felt like they weighed me down. Today we went on a 10 miler and I wore my UK. The weather was perfect, just a little cool but a t-shirt was fine once we got going. We hiked up to see the old Caudill cabin off the Blue Ridge Parkway. I was very comfortable until on the way back I slipped and landed right in the creek. It was getting colder by now, I had about 4 miles to go and I was soaked. However, I took the shirt off, took off walking at a fast pace and I must say, the kilt dried out enough that I was actually warm underneath. I doubt seriously that I could've said the same for jeans.

The picture is me beside what's left of an old cabin by the trail. The cove was decimated by a flood in 1916 and a whole community was washed away that day.