Swift Camp Creek Trail - Red River Gorge, KY

Saturday morning I left out for Red River Gorge, Swift Camp Creek Trail to break in my new hiking boots and test out my new Tempurpedic ProLight sleeping pad. This trail was designated as hard and I wanted a challenge to prep me for my trip, well I got what I asked for. The trail is in the Clifty Wilderness area of the Gorge, it was a beautiful trail and truly "clifty" that follows the creek. But there are several parts where it was ridiculously narrow so you had to focus on your footing (FYI I am extremely ungraceful), there were a few parts where I felt like it was just a mad scramble and a little luck that got you up the muddy embankment without falling face first into the mud. I set up camp by following Dog Fork Creek (a shoot off of the main creek) due to the park rule that require campsites to be 300 feet away from the trail this was the best location for me to get off the trail and follow the river down to a nice area that seemed to have gotten a lot of use from other hikers with the same idea.
 By the time I got up the creek to the campsite my new boots were slightly wet on the inside but the biggest problem was the soles of my feet were sore because the Dr. Scholls foot inserts kept sliding around in my boot when I would go up or down hills. But my feet felt so good at first with that extra padding the inserts gave me, so I am back to the drawing board on this idea.
That night I had the Chicken Alfredo Mountain House Meals, it smelled amazing upon opening up the bag, like a big bag of popcorn (the reason for which I later found out was that it had a ton of dried white cheddar as seasoning). The pasta was very good I accidentally added to much water making it a bit watered down, but that is what I get for "eyeballing" the measurement.
When I went to bed I was LAZY and draped the back portion of my tent with my rain fly (I feel slightly claustrophobic with the rain fly on completely) good thing that I did because at 4:20am I was rudely woken up by it raining on my face. At that point I began scrambling around trying to get all the corners tied down and covering little leaf (tent). LESSON LEARNED: at least tie down lower portion of rain fly before bad that way when it does start raining the only part remaining is the top part. (My main issue was that I wear contacts/glasses - I have to be within a foot or so to see something clearly, so squatting down/bending down to the ground trying to get the little hooks of the fly onto the tent - VERY ATTRACTIVE)
I woke up again at 9am, it was STILL raining steadily. I laid there debating my option of trying to wait it out or march on ahead. Since it didn't sound like it was letting up any time soon I choose to go ahead and pack up. Since I was trying to stay as dry as possible till I hit the trail I choose to pack up my backpack while in the tent (which was comical), I was wallering around in my tiny tent trying to get my sleeping bag in its bag then trying to roll up my sleeping pad (which is the length of my tent), still not sure how I did that one. By the end of packing up I was a hot mess.
The hike back to the car while very wet was uneventful. The trail was even muddier and slipperier than the day before at times I thought for sure I was going to get a nice exfoliating mud bath or go rolling down the hillside.

Summary: Boots have officially been broken in, the sleeping pad works amazing (like sleeping on a cloud), need to figure out foot insert issue, and tie down bottom part of rain fly before dark and raining.