Today’s miles: 14.9
It was a very very windy night last night and I awoke begrudgingly to pee in the cold windy morning sun. It’s so different living out of my tent (instead of a shelter). When I got up, I finished my last leg of the Tanawha Trail and climbed up to the (very very windy) and gorgeous view from Beacon Heights. Then back to the MST and yee good old white blazes (who blazes their trails with a hawk feather anyhow?? - the blaze for the Tanawha Trail). I walked downhill for a ways, to an old logging road, and then back to a trail in Pisgah National Forest! Where I have evidentally arrived. The trail led me over (at least) eight creek crossings, one of which I was cockily hopping across, lost my balance and plunged into the creek with pack and all. Bummer. It was a beautiful day again, and the trail hugged the creek all day. I ran into five dayhikers. One couple I talked to for a long time gave me some more Asheville advice, and we talked about the south, from an upstate NY point of view.
I’m camped out today down by a creek. Temperatures are supposed to get pretty low tonight. Morale is high. I am wondering what the next few days will hold.
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