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March 22, 2013 Mollies Ridge Shelter
Day one into the Smokies was an 11 mile hike up to Mollies Shelter and got me to the ridge line of the Smokies. Overcast and cold. I had watched the weather but there was only rain in the forecast. I had forgotten though as you get up in elevation things can quickly change and get very bad. That night it rained and then woke up with the plan to hike to Derrek Shelter. Hiked in the mist and some rain. Got up on the next day to rain and could not decide ...

March 17, 2013 NOC NC
I got up the next morning quickly got packed up and hiked a mile into NOC where I would pick up my computer, check into the hostel and then setup to do work. It was around 11am when I finally had eaten and taken a shower and I decided to set up in the camp kitchen where there were tables for me to sprawl out all my work and get busy to getting the job done so I could get on the trail again the next day. This day I would meet Wet Dog. Wet Dog was from New Jersey. I came ...

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> March 13, 2014...Rock Gap Shelter
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> We got up again to freezing temps and quickly set out from the
> shelter. Because of the cold weather you either had to hike or when
> you got to camp you quickly found yourself eating very fast and then
> getting into your sleeping bag very quickly. So far out on the trail
> I was going to bed almost every night by 6pm or 7pm. That morning at
> the shelter I asked Blue Moon ...

> March 9, 2013... Hiawassee, GA
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> The next day, we got up from the shelter and somehow I got separated
> from everyone and missed the camp that everyone was going to stay at.
> I was on mile 13 when I realized I had gone past the camp when I met
> some trail maintenance people that hike the trails checking on the
> hikers and helping single woman out on the trail...Trail Doc and
> Trail Ghost. Both of them had hiked the trail ...

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> March 6, 2013... Whitley Gap Shelter
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> We woke up early in anticipation of getting on the trail early when
> it started to snow. We found out that a snowstorm was coming in and
> that as we went up into the elevation it would get worse. Because we
> had already taken a zero we felt that we needed to keep going. We
> packed up and got to the little camp store, when Snickers took one
> look at the weather and decided ...