Day 1, complete! After about 15 miles in the rain, we were exhausted and maybe a little miserable. Not much fun picking up your gear and getting settled into your tent in the rain (thankfully, the tents were set up and waiting for us this year, thank you Boy Scouts!)...After dinner it FINALLY stopped raining and it was SO nice to finally be dry. Spirits were immediately lifted. The next morning, it sadly started raining again, just when it was time to emerge from the tents. So rather than putting on my nice dry "day 2" shoes, it was back on with the soaked ones...ugh. Thankfully, it didn't rain for much longer, and thanks to the Chicago heat, our shoes were pretty dry by lunch time.