The first three days were a whirlwind. So far we have hiked 30.1 miles and our spirits are stil high.
I am having a lot of trouble uploading photos so I may just create a post
Editof photos when I can.
Thursday
- Total miles walked 8.1
- Shelter: tent at hawk mountain shelter
- Highlight: long creek falls
- Low pt: Russ' midnight trek to the privy
We were the16th people to sign the register on top of Springer Mountain Georgia. We have made the first obligatory phone calls to parents and family we are making our way back to our packs at the car and we then began our 2188 mile track to Katadin. The first person we met on the trail was a ridge runner name Lydia from West Tennessee who attended Union College about half mile into the trail and she asked us some questions and informed us about leave no trace policies. The trail was familiar as we hiked this section last fall with Barry fortunately the weather was about the same. We did make the side trail to see long creek falls. Made it to the shelter and set up our tent.
Probably won't recap every day just excited to get our adventure started and to share it with you.
Can you find the hikers in the photo?
Friday
- Total miles walked 7.8
- Shelter: shelter at gooch gap
- Highlight: meeting over 30 hikers at the shelter
- Low point: excessive shelter snoring
It was our first night staying in the shelter. It was a good experience. Met a lot of nice people.
Saturday was a big one so I'll save it for the next post.
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