Yogi here to let you all know that I am still on the Appalachian Trail. I have not fallin off but rather just rollin along at a smooth&steady pace. Here and there I have been running into Count and Smurf but for the most part our paces pretty different and i'm pretty sure I saw Mango and Johnny Appleseed a few months ago. I know that pictures are worth like million words or something so i'll just put up a few of my pix for you all to check out. I won't say too much about the towns i've been going through because they're all the same towns that the other dudes have been going through and they've written up quite a bit about them, and I see no sense in you having to read it all over again. I'm glad to be in Virginia and out of Tennessee. The weather never could make up it's mind in Tennessee, one day it would be 80 degrees and the next day it would be snowing. However, I'm starting to be able to see that spring is coming! wildflowers are beginning to bloom and this strange radiant orb of intense heat keeps appearing in the sky more and more often. Lately i've been walking around with 2 guys my age whom go by the names of Backflip and Patches. It's hard to believe how fast miles begin to fly by in a day. Walking eventually becomes like breathing and when you find your groove or your ZONE you can just walk for a few hours and cover many many miles without even realizing it. Yesterday I pushed 30 miles into Damascus! I don't think i'll be doing that again for a long time, it hurt my feet a whole lot, but at the end of the day it's an awesome feeling of accomplishment that i've really never experienced before. Well, i'll lay down some pictures for you all. I'll check in again at some point in the future. Thousands of thanks to everyone who is supporting me through this!
Clingman's Dome in the Great Smoky Mountains
Lovely weather in the Smokies
from left to right: Me, Shmuck, Altoid, Falcore. Standing atop Maxs Patch TN/NC?
eery little swamp outside of Hot Springs, North Carolina
Confusion. It's still snowing in April.
Cheers!
You're pictures are amazing! Keep it up!
ReplyDeleteGreat shots of the Trail life!! :-) Max Patch was a windy fog when I went thru...
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