Morning conversation
Tripper: Bob, would you mind handing me my stove and coffee
so I don’t have to get out of my sleeping bag?
Zigfoot: Sounds like you got used to that hotel living.
Bob: I don’t mind. I’m gonna get a cigarette out of the
deal!
Tripper: That cigarette is sitting right there waiting for
you! (Pause) I slept pretty good after I warmed up.
Zigfoot: You never missed a beat.
I guess since he bought me dinner, he can go back to giving
me shit about my snoring.
Today was a 9 mile day with lots of ups and downs. I had to
climb over 5 trees just from Sassafras Gap to this shelter. Where are the
volunteers who take care of the AT?
Brown Fork Gap shelter
Ever since I made it to NC, I have been disappointed. There
are no brooms in the shelters so you can’t sweep them out. No wood chips in the
privies, like in Georgia. No bear lines.(Editor thinks the bears stole them
all) Did I just get spoiled in Georgia or does North Carolina need some
volunteers? This shelter has about two feet of the floor missing across the
front of the shelter and no place to sit and eat. Although here the water
source is close and not a ½ mile away uphill like some of the others. The trail
is poorly maintained. There are a number of places where logs should be placed
so to act like stairs. NC has good signs, as does NOC, but I’ve found little to
like about the AT here.
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