AT/April
Week 1
4/1/2024 - Blue Mountain Shelter to Deep Gap Shelter 15.5mi [65.8]
some of brie's snacks
Catz in classic lunchbreak form
Patchng up ATG's sleeping pad
4/2/2024 - Deep Gap to Dicks Creek Gap , Hiawassee, GA 3.6mi [69.4]
Trying to hitch into Hiawassee
Our first shuttle ride, into Hiawassee. Full boat.
Caboose, from Gardner, MA.
Noblets 5 & 10. Free jelly beans
Dave, racecar-driving owner of Henson Cove B & B
Laundry-time style
Free ride from a nice lady <3
Hikers finding hikers, Hiawassee Brew
Natural spiggot
Two-pairs-of-pants kind of day
4/3/2024 - Dicks creek gap to Muskrat Creek Gap 11.8mi, 81.2 [81.2]
Have you seen this breakfast?
Yes.
4/4/2024 - Muskrat Creek to Betty Creek Gap 16.2mi [97.4]
Falcor's Pot
4/5/2024 - Betty Creek to Rock Gap , shuttle to Franklin, NC 8.7mi [105.8]
One hundo miles!
Thanks for the coffee, Pam & Ernie!
Ryan & Falcor waiting for the shuttle
First mail drop from Doris <3
4/6/2024 - Rock Gap to Wayah Shelter 14.8mi [120.6]
A lone Catz for Siler's Bald
Noah consoling Andrew and Patty Melt for having missed the shuttle
Unknown allergic reaction - puffy jacket, puffy face.
Totally legal
Celtic Knot Tree
Week 2
4/7/2024 - Wayah Shelter to the NOC 16.3mi [136.9]
Chopsticks grilling some river meats
"Look really dumb"
Achieved
4/8/2024 - Eclipse day! Hobo Island (@ the NOC) to Brown fork 16.2mi [153.1]
Plan 9, Ben Maynard, no secrets
Checking in at the Fontana Hilton
4/9/2024 - Brown Fork Gap to Fontana Dam 13mi all day rain [166.0]
evening fire at Fontana Hilton
Repairing Catz's pack
public shower house of the gods
catz explaining the benefits of walking up a hill backwards
4/10/2024 - zero day/healing day 1 - Fontana Dam @ "fontana hilton" to Robbinsville, NC [166.0]
Adam, administer of trail magic. gave us a ride to and from Robbinsville, NC
fully squeezed and singing along
no music here
drying party
a great server got us into our first ice cream sundae
4/11/2024 - zero day/ healing day 2/ escaping the rain - Robbinsville, NC [166.0]
Doctor Dan lancing Bubbles' blisters
4/12/2024 - Fontana Dam to Spence Field Shelter, Start of the Smokies! 18.0mi [184.0]
6 AM pick up from Adam
Thank you Adam!
Trash Man
Falcor
Fontana Dam
Brie icing her shin splint
Excited to enter the Smokies!
getting caught in bursts of hail
4/13/2024 - Spence Field Shelter to Mt. Collins Shelter 19.1mi [203.1]
Highest point on the AT @ 6643ft, Clingman's Dome
Approaching 200 miles!
She-Ra photographing the moon
dinnertime at Mt. Collins
Week 3
4/14/2024 - Mt. Collins to Pecks Corner Shelter 15.4mi [218.5]
trying to make an insert from canvas and gouda wax.
juice night-writing
4/15/2024 - Peck's Corner to Davenport Gap Shelter 19.8mi [238.3]
Troupe of Horses and Pack Mules tending to the Trail & hauling mulch to shelters
sometimes brie is just on another plane
catz, protector of all creatures
Lowkey & Gloss
Speedboat, a scholarly type
4/16/2024 - Davenport Gap Shelter, Exiting the Smokies, to Roaring Fork 19.0mi [257.3]
Davenport Gap Shelter, home to traveler and mice
Lorax, RAWR, Catz, Speedboat, Trash Man
a VORTAC (?) on top of snowbird mtn, TN
Lounging on Max patch
Noah & Lost Boy
Bad Idea & Rooster
shocking byird-myurder scene
Willow, the pup, loves the grass and raising the roof
Cottages at Standing Bear
1853.4 mi to Katahdin
left to right: Rooster, Lorax, Ruski, Lost Boy, Noah
cooking some chorizo and onions to add to our dried meals
ruski sewing up some holes in his down booties
a bright moonlight shining down
4/17/2024 - Roaring Fork to Elmer's Sunnyside Inn, Hot Springs, NC 17.9mi [275.2]
dried meals and snacks courtesy or Doris!
Speed Boat's loaner shirt
plenty of square-bodies down in Hot Springs
catz in his new shortz
4/18/2024 - Hot Springs zero day [275.2]
the music room @ Elmer's Sunnyside Inn, 26 Walnut St