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Taking it easy on our first day. It was warm and sunny and we were glad to get on the trail. Our plan was to hike seven miles per day. Though the terrain is flat, this was not necessarily a leisurely pace with full packs. As it turns out, seven miles per day was the perfect pace. Had we tried to do the trail in three days, we would have been miserable as the last ten miles were entirely under water and the going was very slow.