Well! We finally made it to the AT again! Long time since we planned to go to the GSMNP last July. This time we decided to skip the SMNP and begin our hike north of it (for several reasons).
With my 60th birthday coming up, I had a crazy hankering to spend it on the AT. So on Thursday, March 14, we drove north to Waynesville, NC to spend the night before beginning our hike the next day.
We have been in training for 8 weeks before this hike, using our wonderful "walking around the soccer field, up and down the bleachers, up and down the hill from the creek" method. We will see if it keeps us from getting sore this time.
We will be "slackpacking" most of this trip. That means we will be spending the night at various hostels along the way and taking only a daypack with us out on the trail each day. There is only one section that is too long without road access to allow us to do this. So we will have one night in the tent on the trail, not even at a shelter.
Keep reading for a day by day progress report of our hike.
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