Our total journey was around 23 miles. I carried a pack that weighed between 34-38 pounds. The first day was around 3 miles, at night we settled in and made food, this freeze dried food was surprisingly good. Getting water was interesting as it had to be filtered. The water was put in a bag and then hoisted up to where the water would fill another bag through a hose system with a filter in-between.
The second day was very hard as 9 of the 12 miles were uphill at a very steep gradient. This day we reached Gregory’s bald, and open field at 5000 feet with a full 100 mile few of the surrounding valleys and areas.
The third day was a climb back up to the bald and then a few miles downhill to get to camp. The night of Thursday we had some unprepared hikers that acted strange and fried corn in cast iron skillets that couldn’t make it up the hill and had to stay at our camp without a permit.
The fourth and final day was fantastic because we finally got to ride in a bus and have some ribs. I will have more details on my Instagram page.
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What style ribs were they? St. Louis, Memphis, South Carolina?
The only real kind ;).
This may or may not be on your Instagram account but what is the wildlife like on the trail?
who fries corn in a skillet??? who does that? anyway sounds like a great experience.
It was great, wish you would’ve came. We could use the meat.