Thursday, June 28, 2012

2003 AT trip report Day 1

Sunday, May 4
North of Davenport Gap

With Miss Janet away for the overnight party, a hiker staying at the house takes over breakfast preparations.  I have a yummy biscuits and eggs.  We all hang out in the back yard in the sunshine.  I notice a lot of things hanging out to dry. Hmmm.

Miss Janet brings the first load of hikers back.  She is going to be very busy today.  A bored zeroing hiker offers to shuttle us to our starting point.  It will save us a lot of time.  Yay!  We drive and drive and drive and see a little bit of Asheville and finally get to the AT at I-40 near Davenport Gap.  We've weighed our packs while loading up - 31, 31, and 34 pounds. Not too bad, for five days food.  The others take tons of "getting ready to go" pictures, and we're off.

It's really pretty out.  The sky is hot and blue.  You can smell the pine trees.  I love that.

Soon we have a stream to cross.  In our first injury of the trip, Nancy falls in and skins her knee.  No lasting harm done, we doctor her a little and continue walking.  I notice signs for Standing Bear Farm.

In the late afternoon we arrive at our planned stopping point, a little spit of land between two streams.  The bugs are ferocious.  We quickly set up and get in our shelters. My hammock fly ends up staked in the middle of the stream, as there isn't enough land to go around.

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