Destination: Brown Fork Shelter
Starting Location: Sassafrass Gap Shelter
Today's Miles: 9.00 Trip Miles: 141.32
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| Cheoah Bald Marker. How can I calibrate my altimeter with this? |
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| Cheoah Bald |
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| Dressed for hiking! |
Tough nine miles today. When I came to NC143 I found a nice picnic area with tables and a parking lot and took this opportunity to rest for a while. I was very low on water with no source near by, so when two ladies drove into the parking lot I walked over, with my best Yogi* face, and asked if they had any extra water. They did not, but they did have a big cup of sweet tea from McDonals, (you know you are in the South when people offer you sweet tea). I don't like sweet tea but gladly accept it with much appreciation, and I could use the extra calories. I drank sweet tea while growing up in Kentucky and switched to non sweetened as an adult
I meet Tore Knos, a Swede a little younger than me and he snapped the above photo of me.
The day ended with a long climb up Jacob's ladder, a seemingly strait up climb of several hundred feet elevation gain. I don't the trail maintainers here are familiar with switchbacks... And did I mention that I hate long climbs late in the day?
*Yogi - verb, to beg for food without it being obvious. Origin: The cartoon character Yogi Bear
"All that is gold does not glitter, Not all those who wander are lost" -J.R.R. Tolkien
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