| May 09, 2005 |
| It's a beautiful Monday
morning as I got up I was climbing Little Rock Knob where the sun
was shinning through the canopy of the trees making the grass
underneath a brilliant green in color. |
| Stayed at the shelter last
night the Modern Hippies. I just met Raman from Kansas City |
| The section I'm going
through right now has been a short up-hill and short steep down
hills, but I'm really starting to go down hill now off Bald Knob. |
| I met 3 other hikers, breakfast
must be over, the Teflon Kids and her husband. |
| I just saw one of Roger
Hardway's Bearing trees, he goes up to it and says "this is a
Bearing tree, but I've never seen any Bearings around here." |
| It's 12:30 and lunch is
over. I'll be living here for Low Gap at 3,900 feet and I will
be going to Unmake Mountain. |
| This is section of the
trail that is extremely wind blown. I've counted at least 20
trees that had been blown over the pathway and cleared. |
| I' m now in a
Hemlock forest, with rhododendron, and laurel mixed with hard
wood. |
| I going higher in altitude and I can
smell more of hemlock that I could when I was down below in the
valley. The trail is baffled with sun. The trail is dust
covered with leaves and pine needles, but the roots are terrible
from the rhododendron. |
| The rocks are
small step ups and large step ups both up and down, making for slow
going. I don't know what the temperature is right now, but
it's actually pretty cold. The wind is whipping right trough
these short trees. I just passed Crazy horse and Praying
Mantis on the way to Iron Mountain. |
| I'm definitely
starting down now off the bald, and I'm standing on top of a big
huge rock cliff and I some big steps that I have to go down which
are not the easiest thing to get your poles into. I wish there
was some way I could put these big rocks in my pocket and take them
home and put them in my front yard, they are absolutely gorgeous. |
| I starting
descending enough now that I'm starting to see a bunch of spring
beauties and back into the hardwoods and little scrubby trees that
was on top of the summit. I just passed a couple of patches of
blue-its along the trail. |
| Will is
waiting for me at the top of this ridge making an end to another
beautiful hiking day. |
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