Took me 8 1/2 hours to go a hard ten and a half miles today. I stop a lot to take pictures. In fact I've taken a lot of pictures. Wish I knew how many pictures a 16 gig card shooting raw and highest jpeg setting can hold on this camera. Tim?
I'm plenty tired. Set up my tent at the Fontana "Hilton" Shelter. It's called this because it's the only AT shelter with a bathroom/shower in a nearby building. I've had a shower but there are no towels so had to put my dirty clothes back on while dripping wet. Also bathroom was filthy and I'm not picky. Didn't dare remove my plastic camp shoes. The shelter overlooks Fontana Lake. Pretty location. It is filled with about 8 or 10 young men and I decided I wanted my privacy so that's why I'm not staying in the shelter. It's amazing so many are here because I see almost no one on the trail these days. (Two of the speed demons are spending a second night. So I can't see how it benefited them to go twice as fast as me) It's sad that almost all the thru-hikers are weeks ahead of me. I think I'll be alone a lot now. I read the comments in the shelter logs from the people I knew. Tomorrow I get picked up here to go to the McGarvey family reunion. Not sure when they'll be able to bring me back to the trail. When I start again I begin the stretch of the AT that goes through the Smoky Mt. National Park. The first day is suppose to be one of the top difficult days on the trail.
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Ok I will try this comment thing again. Several comments are out there in cyberspace never to be found..Thanks brother for telling me how to do this. Got a big one coming..
ReplyDeleteTrillium.. remember what Grandpa Stev.. used to say about the mosquitoes... feed them and they will leave.. I did not get that for the longest time but I bet you do.. Love your dialog..
hope you get a good night's sleep..
katfish