Another shot from blood mountain

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Blood Mountain

Mile 28 at 4,500 feet.

Walasi-yi Center

Note the boots in the trees, they are EVERYWHERE inside and out. The "goal" is to have a pair of used hiking boots for every mile of the trail.

Walasi-yi at Neel's Gap

The only spot on the trail where it actually goes through a building. Our first resupply of the trip and a really cool place in general!

Zero Day #1

We hiked 9.4 miles out of low gap to Unicoi gap this morning. The weather has been bad, rain most of the day yesterday, all night and heavy rains today. The trail was muddy and it made the downhill's difficult. BUT WAIT!!!.... We are staying at a Holiday Inn EXPRESS! Going to stay another night tomorrow to rest and recoup from our first 6 days and 51 miles of hiking. More to come, thanks to all who have posted!

Drying out.

Tony with his new friend "Gator"

Springer Mountain- Day One

Our "last supper"?

A final night at home

All is packed and we will be on our way to the airport at 0930. The shuttle will pick us up from the airport in Atlanta and take us to the hostel. Sunday is the day! Thanks to all of our family and friends for the support!

TC/CW

The picture says all. Thanks Frank!

MAPS!

Sorting and packing.

Getting there!

Getting Started

We are still in the preparation stages of the hike,(have been for several months) we have most of our maps sorted and have made our reservations to take us to the terminus. We will post some pictures of the organized chaos that has become our dining room later today.

We will be leaving on a Jet Plane from Sarasota, bound for Atlanta on March 17th. Its getting CLOSE!!