rock n roll n hike
03-05-2012, 20:20
So I know right now I'm a section hiker, but I just got back from a hike up at unicoi gap and received some trail magic in the form of a lone Coleman pot sitting in an empty campsite. Now normally I would have left it for a thru but it turns out my mess kit from boy scouts is pretty much done. Needless to say I have a new cookpot and thanks to the trail angel!
I got down off rocky mountain and I was waiting on some friends who went into town so my fellow hiker and I decided to clean up the parking lot and try to repay the trail any way we could. The next day up on top of blue mtn. We also gave water to a few thru's from the north heading back that way. The giving of trail magic, even something as small as a top off of clean water, feels even better than receiving it! I think it is because the people you are helping are truly grateful. I had a wonderful experience on my short trip in spite of staying on the top of rocky mtn through that hellish storm and it was the people as much as the scenery that made it that way.
I am aspiring towards a 2014 thru hike right now and I have decided to start training and planning now. I was planning on going this year but life didn't allow it... So I will be up there most likely near ga/nc since its closest and now I will most definitely be bringing extra water and maybe a few more beers to leave up there for you thru's!
Trail magic....good stuff
I got down off rocky mountain and I was waiting on some friends who went into town so my fellow hiker and I decided to clean up the parking lot and try to repay the trail any way we could. The next day up on top of blue mtn. We also gave water to a few thru's from the north heading back that way. The giving of trail magic, even something as small as a top off of clean water, feels even better than receiving it! I think it is because the people you are helping are truly grateful. I had a wonderful experience on my short trip in spite of staying on the top of rocky mtn through that hellish storm and it was the people as much as the scenery that made it that way.
I am aspiring towards a 2014 thru hike right now and I have decided to start training and planning now. I was planning on going this year but life didn't allow it... So I will be up there most likely near ga/nc since its closest and now I will most definitely be bringing extra water and maybe a few more beers to leave up there for you thru's!
Trail magic....good stuff