After hitching a ride back from resupply in Robinsville for the smokie mountians with very heavy packs supplying ourselves with seven days of food which in a hikers case seems more like double that..haha we got to climb up and up one of which was jacobs ladder a nice directly up climb ha nice time to get food :) Right before the smokies was our last stop at the Fontana damn which was pretty beautiful from up high on the mountians up close still beautiful but not as clean looking. Its funny your all the way up on ridges of mountians and you see your destination from afar and you get super pumped and it seems futher and further away its like a mirage. Stayed at the fontana damn shelter which is called the fontana hilton cause theres showers and bathrooms. I experienced some interesting dinner that wal mart and bitter goat came up with are you ready.... :) ...a dozen boiled eggs, mustard, and instant mashed potatoes on bread with hot dogs haha actually tasty!! WE cowboy camped that night so we could get a quick and early start the next day (cowboy camping is sleeping with just your sleeping bag on the nice patch of grass easy mornin packing) Started hiking at 5am and began our journey into the smokies at first it they seemed like all the mountians until we got to higher elevation which had grass all over and blankets of tiny white flowers it was like walking through a story book, amazing. You go in and out of pine groves and the views are endless. Hiked up to Charlies Bunion which will be one of the most treasured spots ever it was unreal! Clingmens Dome really wasnt that cool hiking up it was sweet it was like vermont hiking but the top just seemed like the top of mount washington touristy and concrete which really does take some of the beauty out. We got out of the smokies in 4 days which was nice cause you have to camp/stay at a shelter every night and its kinda sounds silly but having to be somewhere and not having the freedom to pick and choose you camp location not cool and the fact that day hikers or section hikers get to reserve shelter space and if its pouring rain and youve been hiking all day nestled in your sleeping bag and get kicked out for someone whos staying one night and gets to dry there stuff the next day it kinda makes a thru hiker a little fustrated and not including that we have to pay $20 just to hike the smokies and you have to do it in seven days HA joke! But it was beautiful after the smokies i felt a real sense of freedom really relizing that i really have it made i get to hike and see eveerything happen around me all day everyday its unreal the feeling is really unexplainable! Another one momentous thing was max patch your on top of a mountian all grass it was crazy! i melted into the ground that day the sky was blue the sun was shining and i was surrounded by the best company :) Also hiked our longest day 21 miles its funny nothing hurts everyday any more my body is really getting use to the hiking! OH i chopped ALL of my hair of yesterday and it feels so good all the boys did to but really silly like LT cookoo bird has a mullet, walmart has the creepiest mohawk, saint croy has one patch of haor on the top of his head and one patch in the front rediculous! We are in hot springs NC now just chillin out got to take a shower and wash clothes which was needed badly and if you know me you know that when i say shower badly it must be real bad :) haha! but i have pictures and i hope you enjoy! Light and LOve to all of you!
the woods now
the woods when we started
the ice storm of boredom
on a peak with some fun
part of the crew on clemens dome
me and k2 on charlies bunion
mmm tasty
relax
bald we camped on
max patch
max patch drying out gear
me a hoopin
boys will be boys - bitte goat and cookoo
i hoop on mountian tops
hiking all day cookoo, k2, long gone, wal mart
mountains are meant to be climbed - hot foot, shaman, cookoo
cheoa bald campin
smokeys pines
blood mountian snow
blue mountian sheleter (coldest night ever)
b-line and why not kickin it
wal mart, k2 and cookoo
