Just coming back now to report on our little trip. We had a WONDERFUL time. I couldn't have special ordered better weather and she really enjoyed it a lot more than she expected to. I don't think the "hiker bug" bit her, but she said she would do another short 1 or 2 night trip again, which is saying a lot! When I say we crawled... I mean we really did. We didn't even finish the entire approach trail because we decided to go home Sunday instead of Monday. She wanted to get home to her friends and I felt like I had taken enough of her weekend so I agreed to leave a day early. It gave me time at home to rest up for work today anyway. We got 6 miles of the 8.8 done though. A whopping 3 miles per day. It was because we were having SO much fun though. We stopped at a campsite for lunch and just hung her little Eno hammock so we'd have somewhere to sit and swing. We climbed in that and ended up taking a nap right beside the trail. It was blissful. We would stop for a little breather and end standing there for 15 minutes having a deep conversation before moving on. It was everything I wanted it to be, except I would have liked to finish it on Monday.
Things learned:
1. Water/liquid is extremely HEAVY. We each were carrying 6 20oz. bottles.
2. Gum is your friend when you need to control water consumption.
FIRST TIMES:
Dug my first cat hole. Sure do wish many others had. Saw some pretty disgusting abuse of the campsites and stupid mistakes that will eventually cost a person and/or a bear their lives.
Hung my first bear bag. To perfection, I might add, and it only took me an hour!!! Man, throwing that stupid little rock bag takes some serious practice. That was a job of work! But I got er done!!
A few of my fave pics: Sorry, I don't know how to rotate them.
Amicalola 090316 Me_Heather.JPGFalls mid way up stairs.JPGFirst bear bag hang.JPGHeather on trail.JPGTop of the falls.JPG