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Blue Ridge Gap GA to Deep Gap NC
Day 11 – 04 Apr 2015 (10.1 miles – 85.4 miles) The day started early for me. I had to get up, buy gas and drive the 45 minutes North to meet Bling at his house at 7AM. We picked up breakfast and headed North to our parking spot at Blue Ridge Gap. It was […]
A walk in the clouds
Day 9 – 20 Dec 2014 (9.3 miles) We planned to meet at Dick’s Creek Gap at 9 AM, leave my car and drive around to the parking for Steeltrap Gap. Meeting went off without a hitch, and we started around to the parking stop with a short stop at the Top of Georgia Hiker Hostel. We arrived […]
Trail work
Today was a fun day doing Trail Maintenance. I met up with the Georgia Appalachian Trail Club to help haul wood chips from Unicoi Gap to the privy at Blue Mountain Shelter. Each bag of wood chips was 20 lbs. Everyone carried a bag up the mountain. Round trip from Unicoi Gap to the shelter […]
Tray Mountain Shelter to Steeltrap Gap
Day 8 – 06 Oct 2014 (1.7 miles) As planned for the day we got a late start since we had a short walk down the hill to Steeltrap Gap. We said goodbye to everyone and wished 4Be luck on hike to Franklin, and to Buttercup on her planned thru hike next March. After an […]
Blue Mountain Shelter to Tray Mountain Shelter
Day 7 – 05 Oct 2014 (8.1 miles) Ranger Joe got an early start hoping to make as far as possible to set up for getting into Dick’s Creek Gap early on Monday morning. 4Be left out a little afterwards and we left a short while later. Our initial plan was to make it to […]
Hogpen Gap to Blue Mountain Shelter
Day 6 – 04 Oct 2014 (11.9 miles) Samma dropped Bling & I off at Hogpen Gap at 9AM Saturday morning. She hiked the first 1.5 miles with us. From Low Gap to the base of the climb up to the Blue Mountain Shelter the walk is along an old CCC road and has some […]
Neels Gap – Hogpen Gap
Day 5 — 13 July 2014 (6.9 miles) Pretty flowers and plenty of rain today. We met Time Lapse at Wolf Laurel Top making a time lapse video of the view. Mark was singing in the rain as he hiked in his umbrella. Time Lapse caught us headed down the mountain and didn’t have […]
Woody Gap – Neels Gap
Day 4 — 12 July 2014 (10.7 miles) We started the day by getting to Hogpen Gap at 8AM to meet up with our shuttle. Nice lady, great service and pleasant ride over to Woody Gap. We arrived at Woody ready to go and hit the trail shortly after bailing out of the shuttle. Our […]
Prep day for next 17.5 miles
Pack loaded with change of clothes, water, filter, stove, food, bowl… Counting down to our next section of the AT. Bling and I are planning to drop a car at Hogpen Gap and get a shuttle from there down to Woody Gap. We plan to stay at Neel Gap so no tents to carry 🙂 […]
THE JOURNEY CONTINUES GOOCH SHELTER -> WOODY GAP
Day 3 – 29 Jun 2014 (5.2 miles) The day started with us boiling water and enjoying West Memphis Grits Souffle and Startbuck coffee (VIA Packets). After that, we headed down the trail (naturally Prospector left prior to Bling & me). We had 4 hours to travel the 5 miles from the shelter to Woody […]