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... |