Category: Tennessee
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Easter Sunday
We spent Easter Sunday in the woods. I’d hoped that we’d be close enough to town that we could celebrate Christ’s return to life in church, but with some bad weather, sick tramily members, and minor injuries, we took a couple slow days and were in the middle of nowhere. Good Friday we spent in…
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Roan Mountain and the Roan Highlands
It’s been a weird, long, draining week. Our shortest day was 15 miles, and the majority of the time we were pushing 17s. We even hit a twenty coming out of Hot Springs, and let me tell you… 20 miles with a fully loaded pack is a long day. At least it still is for…
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Great Smoky Mountains National Park: Appalachian Trail version
It’s unbelievable to me that 75 miles is a five-day hike now. Three weeks ago, five days of hiking got us thirty miles to Mountains Crossing. Now it gets us through the full length of the Smokies. Oh how the miles fly. We had a good zero in Fontana Dam on Sunday before we headed…