Thursday, March 18, 2010

Day 17 - 3/18

Daily mileage: 5.5
Total trail mileage: 180.5
Starting location: Mollies Ridge Shelter
Ending location: Spence Field Shelter
Weather: partly cloudy in the morning, sunny in the afternoon, 40-50
degrees

I am at
http://maps.google.com/maps?q=35.561196,+-83.770768

Today was a nice short day. We got up late, hiked over to Spence
Field Shelter, and arrived by 2 in the afternoon. We spent the
afternoon trying to gather dry and dead firewood.

A red squirrel this morning was rather interested in us making
breakfast. It kept popping its head out from everywhere to see if
there was any food left for it. I think it was also running around
the shelter last night.

We passed 4 people with horses today. They were just out for a ride
today on a loop trail through the park.

Andre, Marc, two other thruhikers, and five section hikers showed up
in the late afternoon. My dad and I got the fire going and were able
to get most things dried.

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