Mixing up gorp for lunches on the trail

      All dried out and nearly ready to go out in the rain again

      Spring Mountain Shelter, designed to sleep only 5

      I tented next to Spring Mountain Shelter

      Low key advertising on the trail

      Little Laurel Shelter where I stopped for water

      Cooking dinner at an nameless tent site

      Damage to my hiking pole by a mouse in search of salt

      Tough trail

      Rough trail

      300 miles!

      Another small graveyard seemingly in the middle of nowhere

      Flint Mountain Shelter

      Stealth camper

      What would Robert Frost do here?

      Remains of an old cabin

      Hogback Ridge Shelter

      Hitch hiking into Erwin, Tennessee, to get my mail

      Great view from the back of a pickup truck

      Erwin ...

      ... a dying town

      Dinner with Trail Angel Ruth and her husband Fred

      My ride back towards the trail from Erwin

      Someone abandoned this 5 pound tent on this steep trail

      This local day hiker was kind enough to show me how to identify poison ivy

      Poison Ivy

      Fellow getting ready to count the local bird population

      Bald Mountian Shelter where I stayed alone

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