| June 10, 2005 |
| Leaving
Fullhardt Know Shelter at 7:20am.
718.9 miles
from Springer Mt. We stayed last night because of the
rain. Planning on doing an 18 mile day. Today there's no rain,
however it's real foggy. I hoping the fog will lift and that it'll
turn out be a pretty day. |
| Following an
old road way that went to the fire tower at Fullhardt. Down
hill, very clear area with a lot of laurel blooming. Pretty!
I'm glad the path is fairly clear and we don't get so wet. A
hardwood forest with a lot of pith pines in this area. The
brush along side the trail brushes up against your clothes, so much
for dry clothes. |
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Going down hill again on a long smooth
natural base switch backs. Down closer to Curly Creek we're
getting into a lot of white pines and hardwoods. Now going up
a hill from Curly Creek a good size little creek. |
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We had switch backs going up and now we're
going down into the Wilson Creek area. I can hear the water
already, so I'm not very far from Wilson Creek. So far today
the trail has been fairly easy. Some short ups and downs, but
no large boulders. My clothes and shoes never dried out from
last night. |
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Wilson Creek was flowing rapidly and swift
from the resent night rains. The water is very clear that most
of the mountain streams. Make good drinking water and is
always really cold. Wilson Creek has a lot of falls.
Just above Wilson Creek is spot where they used to mine charcoal for
the iron furnaces.. Left Wilson Creek Shelter at 11:20am |
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Out here there's some moss torn up in the
trail and leaves shuffled around. We saw a bear print.
Starting to criss-cross the Blue Ridge Crossway and just came across
94.7 US service road. The trail is extremely rocky in
this area, straight up, and it has a lot of little fine rock that
twists and turns your ankles, and it's washed out which make it
harder to hike in. |
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The AT parallels the Blue Ridge Highway at
97.0 US service road. We supposed to view Taylor Mountain from
here, the elevation is 2,543' and the elevation where we're standing
is 2,340' , I can see Taylor Mt. off in the distance, but barely.
It's really hazy. I think we're going to get some rain. |
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Swing'n Jane and
Simon |
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