| May 27, 2005 |
| Leaving Bland
at 8:30am. Drizzling rain, put on our rain coats. Had a
little road walking to do on 612, but starting into the woods now.
My pack feels very heavy today, coming out of town with about 30
lbs, that's a little bit to much. |
| We're doing a
steady climb up hill and going around the side of the hill, but
there's some very steep sections. |
| Hiking on the
ridge top now! A lot of white pines in this area and hard
woods. The trail goes up and down. I don't know how long
this goes, but we'll be hiking the ridge top all day. |
| This last time when
the helicopter went over he some beams or poles for a construction
of some kind. There was a shelter in GA that has a helicopter
to bring in their poles and stuff. |
| The pink
honeysuckles are the only one that have an odor. We've seen
pink lady slippers, some purple flocks and some other little purple
flowers that I didn't recognize. |
| The helicopter went over again, he has
either has logs or metal beams of some kind. At least now we
know he's working and EJ didn't hire him to drop a water
balloon on my head. Spirit just said, " don't know he could
miss dropping water balloon on my head with neon pack cover
I've got on my back pack". Only I'm not going to tell you what
color it is. |
| We're at a
section that has a lot of white pines and rhododendron along side
the trail. Occasionally we get some views of the mountain
ranges. It's a little on the hazy side, but we can still see 7
or 8 mountain over. The mountains range from a dark green to a
darker blue, to a real, real faint blue along the horizon. |
| Going down the
trail in a little pine grove area. White pines are wispy when
you walk by them and it's a sun dappled area. |
|
This a note to all the
Garfield elementary students, particularly Melissa Fletchers first
grade room. "I want every one to have a safe and enjoyable summer,
have your teacher give the AT website so you can follow me this
summer. Simon and Lucky Bear and myself will see you in the
fall when you come back to school, probably not before October." |
|
This a note to Sharon Smith
in VA: If you're reading this journal send me a note to either
Greensboro or Harper's Ferry Post Office, general delivery, and what
ever their zip code would be, and put on there hold for through
hiker and tell me where you were going to meet me in VA. |
| Hear the
leaves rustle as I walk, it sounds like fall there's so many oak
leaves down on the ground.
Note: I
can hear the rustle of leaves as Sandy walks! Kathy |
| Took a short
break on top of the hill and had some lunch, we lightened our load
by 2 beagles, 2 packs of peanut butter, 4 small jellies and a couple
candy bars. Believe it or not that helps! |
| I have seen
several white Jacobs Ladder in bloom. We just had a rattle
snake cross in front of us about 3 feet long with big old rattles on
the end. Spirit walked over to take a picture of him and he
had already crawled over to side. He didn't want his picture
take, he started to coil and shaking those rattlers. I got
Simon by the chain and we went around fast. I'd rather see the
bear than rattle snakes. |
| Going around
the mountain, this trial is very slated. It hasn't been
straightened out and if you aren't careful, you could go over the
hill very easily. |
| Made our
way to Jenny Knob Shelter at 4:30pm. Took Simon's pack off and
decide to go down to the stream which is about 50 to 75 yards away
to get water. It wasn't anything more than a trickle, but got
water OK. |
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