Gambit McCrae
03-23-2021, 11:18
PT1 was a great success. Started at 10pm in the rain Friday night. Walked the BMT to the Pinhoti and after some terminus pics we headed on down trail a couple miles. Ended up pitching in a not so great spot, more of a big water run off filled with leaves than a campsite...
47562
Man it was 30 minutes after getting in my tent that some jerkoff bear tripped and stumbled all the way over my tent! I had my earplugs in so i only felt it, but man did it make me angry! Its 1am, in the rain and this jerk hasn't even given me time to fall asleep before he is over here stepping into my stuff! I pull my ear plugs out as I feel him smash emself up against me and my tent. Like a dog that rolls in something dead and rotten. I yelled out "hey!" commotion stops....Then the sniffing. Like a dog sniff right next to my dern ear. SO I tap my tent and got hateful with em this time.... "GET OUTTA HERE BEAR!!!!!!".....More sniffing....:mad: I said okay that is enough. That is it. As I started putting on my shoes for outside confrontation I yell it again. Meanwhile my buddy is scurrying around trying to get a tent door open to stick his headlamp out....but he is slow going in the dark. and now. Silence. And as my friend sweeps the campsite with a bright headlamp, I could collect no shadows of monsters, bigfoots or black bears."
47563
So after that I put my earplugs back in a slept great all night.
Saturday was around a 22 mile day and at lunch i had the great pleasure of meeting and eating lunch with Nimblewill Nomad. He is a very kind man.
47564
Sat night, great tent site up on Turkey mountain
47565
sun was a lot of forest road walking and 10 miles we were back at the car. Pinhoti gave us a great first experience. Met several Thru hikers, and hikers doing the IAT from Key west to Canada
47566
47562
Man it was 30 minutes after getting in my tent that some jerkoff bear tripped and stumbled all the way over my tent! I had my earplugs in so i only felt it, but man did it make me angry! Its 1am, in the rain and this jerk hasn't even given me time to fall asleep before he is over here stepping into my stuff! I pull my ear plugs out as I feel him smash emself up against me and my tent. Like a dog that rolls in something dead and rotten. I yelled out "hey!" commotion stops....Then the sniffing. Like a dog sniff right next to my dern ear. SO I tap my tent and got hateful with em this time.... "GET OUTTA HERE BEAR!!!!!!".....More sniffing....:mad: I said okay that is enough. That is it. As I started putting on my shoes for outside confrontation I yell it again. Meanwhile my buddy is scurrying around trying to get a tent door open to stick his headlamp out....but he is slow going in the dark. and now. Silence. And as my friend sweeps the campsite with a bright headlamp, I could collect no shadows of monsters, bigfoots or black bears."
47563
So after that I put my earplugs back in a slept great all night.
Saturday was around a 22 mile day and at lunch i had the great pleasure of meeting and eating lunch with Nimblewill Nomad. He is a very kind man.
47564
Sat night, great tent site up on Turkey mountain
47565
sun was a lot of forest road walking and 10 miles we were back at the car. Pinhoti gave us a great first experience. Met several Thru hikers, and hikers doing the IAT from Key west to Canada
47566