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02-13-2011, 23:56
So, I am getting out for another hike in the Smokies. Highly anticipating it since my January hike was canceled due to weather.
It will be my wife and I and one of my buddies. I am really wanting to get my Lunar Duo set up so not looking to stay in a shelter. We will have 2 full days of hiking and then only enough to allow us to return back to our car and drive the 5 hr drive back home (of course and hoping that I won't get home too late since we work the next morning).
So, here is one option that I am looking at:
Day 1:
Park at Fontana
AT North ~ 3.7 miles
Twenty Mile Trail ~ 1.9 miles
Twenty Mile Loop Trail ~ 2.9 miles
Wolf Ridge Trail ~ 1 mile to CS #95 for the night.
Day 2:
Continue on Wolf Ridge Trail ~ 4.2 miles
Bald Trail ~ 3.2 miles
AT South ~ 2 miles to CS #113 for the night.
Day 3:
Continue south on AT back to Fontana to car and head home.
So, does anyone have any comments about this section? How about the camp sites? I see that 95 is not a reservation site, so how is it? Is it clean? Is it a relatively nice camp site with a decent place to put a few tents?
How about 113? I will have to reserve it, but what kind of condition is it in?
How about water sources? It looks like we will cross a few small streams on Twenty Mile Trail and it looks like there is a small stream near CS 95, but after that it looks like nothing. So, would we need to load up on enough water for 2 days at CS 95?
How about the trail conditions? Elevations? I will pull out the little brown book and look at each trail listing a little closer, but haven't done so yet. Any tips though?
How about views through here, any good ones?
I am not dead set on this trail, but it seems to be about the best one I can come up with. I don't want to really do any sections I have already done, which is the Alum Cave and Newfound area. Since Clingmans Dome is not open til April that shuts down a nice little loop back there. I have also done the section up around Cosby. Haven't done the Mt Camerer loop but CS 35 is still shut down. My only time concern is getting any reservation sites reserved since I am now in that 30 day window.
Thanks.
It will be my wife and I and one of my buddies. I am really wanting to get my Lunar Duo set up so not looking to stay in a shelter. We will have 2 full days of hiking and then only enough to allow us to return back to our car and drive the 5 hr drive back home (of course and hoping that I won't get home too late since we work the next morning).
So, here is one option that I am looking at:
Day 1:
Park at Fontana
AT North ~ 3.7 miles
Twenty Mile Trail ~ 1.9 miles
Twenty Mile Loop Trail ~ 2.9 miles
Wolf Ridge Trail ~ 1 mile to CS #95 for the night.
Day 2:
Continue on Wolf Ridge Trail ~ 4.2 miles
Bald Trail ~ 3.2 miles
AT South ~ 2 miles to CS #113 for the night.
Day 3:
Continue south on AT back to Fontana to car and head home.
So, does anyone have any comments about this section? How about the camp sites? I see that 95 is not a reservation site, so how is it? Is it clean? Is it a relatively nice camp site with a decent place to put a few tents?
How about 113? I will have to reserve it, but what kind of condition is it in?
How about water sources? It looks like we will cross a few small streams on Twenty Mile Trail and it looks like there is a small stream near CS 95, but after that it looks like nothing. So, would we need to load up on enough water for 2 days at CS 95?
How about the trail conditions? Elevations? I will pull out the little brown book and look at each trail listing a little closer, but haven't done so yet. Any tips though?
How about views through here, any good ones?
I am not dead set on this trail, but it seems to be about the best one I can come up with. I don't want to really do any sections I have already done, which is the Alum Cave and Newfound area. Since Clingmans Dome is not open til April that shuts down a nice little loop back there. I have also done the section up around Cosby. Haven't done the Mt Camerer loop but CS 35 is still shut down. My only time concern is getting any reservation sites reserved since I am now in that 30 day window.
Thanks.