Brennan and I hiked 68 miles on the Appalachian Trail last week. We started at this place, Uncle Johny's and traveled south to the town of Hot Springs, NC. All along the A.T. there are little towns like this that pretty much survive off of people who hike the 2,176 miles of the A.T. between Georgia and Maine. Most thru-hikers (people that hike the whole trail at one time) start in Georgia in early April and finish in Maine around August or early September. This time of year you find mostly section hikers on the trail, or people who are doing any where from a weekend to a few months on the trail.
First few hours on the trail. Notice how clean and energetic we look.
We ended day 1 and No Business Knob Shelter. Every 5 to 15 miles on the trail you will have a shelter that can hold 5-16 people. These are great if you don't want to pitch you tent or if it is raining.
This is what we looked like at the end of day 2 after hiking 16 mile; a bit sweaty and dirty.
Brennan is getting pumped up to climb this big hill in front of us.
We did a lot of climbing but the views at the top of the balds were worth it.
Watching the sunset at the end of day 2 after a respectable 11 miles of hiking.
Brennan was pretty excited about our campsite that night.
Graves of two Civil War soldiers. We hiked 21 miles that day.
Nice off width crack. I'd give that climb a 5.10c rating.
Someone wanted to hitch a ride to Hot Springs with us.
After 11 miles on our last day we had planned to stay in Hot Springs for a night but we discovered that there was a Harley Biker Party going on all weekend in town. They had the entire campsite reserved for their party. We just drove to Asheville for some food and then drove the 4 hours back to Chapel Hill.
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The only thing missing is a pair of sweet sweet Segues.
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