 This is the way it all started. Icy & cold |
 The southern terminus of the AT |
 A group I hiked with for two days |
 The sort of hills I'm hiking up and over |
 My hamock & tarp. No leaves yet |
 How I hang my food bag to frustrate the bears |
 Spring is creeping in around the edges |
 Buddies for the past week. Still no leaves. |
 Budget Inn Franklin NC with hiker box out front |
 up the AT from Winding Stair Gap |
 blue mountains and leafless trees |
 Spider and YouAgain |
 happy hikers |
 Blue |
 Phoenix |
 AT_sign |
 Hamock and Huba tent |
 Wayah Bald Tower |
 AT through the trees |
 Animal |
 Scout |
 Coffee Pot and Scout |
 Fireweed |
 foggy morning |
 Duffer |
 hiking out of NOC |
 Tipsie |
 Fetch |
 Fireweed |
 Two Step |
 Couch |
 Camel |
 Tracker |
 thumbing to town |
 Fawn and Cricket |
 Hat |
 Dexter |
 South Bounders Cook and Splash |
 Cook, Fireweed and Splash meet again |
 Cable Gap Shelter |
 Sunrise on the hike to Fontana |
 Sunrise on the hike to Fontana |
 NC28 at Fontana |
 GSMNP backcountry permit kiosk |
 Catzilla at the Hike Inn |
 Speed Limit 20 MPH hiking towards Fontana Dam |
 Fontana Hilton |
 Medicine Man |
 view from Shuckstack Fire Tower |
 Shuckstack steps |
 Old Shuckstack Fire Tower |
 Trail Mix |
 How we get our water |
 Seldom Seen |
 The signs that mean no maps are needed |
 Walking through the fields of flowers |
 Miles of flowers |
 Glacier Lillys |
 Precious |
 Brian |
 Fireweed and Fire |
 Shelter Fire |
 Sticks |
 Sticks |
 Unbreakable and No Trace |
 Steamroller |
 Two Dogs |
 Thunderhead_Mtn |
 Otto |
 Doc |
 Sippsey |
 Stats |
 Deer behind shelter |
 Sap, playing her pack violin. Beautiful. |
 Sap |
 Shelter in a downpour |
 Nokeys |
 gypsy sole |
 bearfeet |
 2%Tim |
 Lauren and Eric |
 My cook kit at a shelter table |
 Life in the shelter |
 Foggy Morning |
 up and up again |
 SeldomSeen |
 Vicegrip checking the map |
 The gentler side of the AT |
 AT throuh the woods.jpg |
 Hikers at the base of Clingman's Dome tower. |
 Seldom Seen and Fireweed at Clingman Dome in the fog |
 Vicegrip |
 Sap taking in the sun |
 Walking into civiliztion after 5 days out. |
 Fireweed_n_Seldom_Seen |
 Clingman's Dome Tower |
 Smoky Mountains |
 newfound gap sign |
 Gatlinburg culture shock |
 Fireweed at Newfound Gap |
 Fireweed at Newfound Gap, 206 miles north of Springer Mtn, only 1,972 miles to go... |