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So this weekend I had expected to go camping, but that feel through. Then I thought I was going hiking with my brother on Saturday, but that fell through and I went by myself. I ended up hiking the 10.8 mile Rock Castle Creek Gorge Trail in the Rocky Knob area of the Blue Ridge Parkway. It was a very nice, but cold day. My water started to freeze in my bottle, which has not happened to me on a hike before. Nothing major, but it got to the point where I had to unscrew my cap to drink since the squirt part was frozen and there were small bits of ice in there. This was after only a few hours and it let me think of ways of how I’d deal with keeping my bottles from freezing on an over night trip. Obviously with a small bottle in the sleeping bag with me and then leaving the others near the fire, with some rocks propped behind them to help radiate more heat back to them. And not filled too much so that if it does freeze a tad it won’t break the containers. And I did enjoy seeing bits of the creeks and feeder streams frozen, with water running on the ice. In the few places I had to walk across a patch of ice it was nice in thick. Today more plans to hike fell through, but Rachel went with me to Hanging Rock State Park. We did about 2 or 3 miles of trails, looking at different waterfalls. It was way warmer than on Saturday, but there were still pockets of ice on the water and there were snow flurries when we started.