BMT Day 16 (Stealth Camper)
Day 16 (April 28, 2022, Thursday) Today we woke up super early and got on the trail at 8:13, and instead of continuing our poop quest, we switched over to Hedrick the Hiking Horse storyline. Hedrick has many adventures of which we shall write...
BMT Day 15 (Lisa & Aaron)
Day 15 (April 27, 2022, Wednesday) Met TeePee Walker at the parking lot waiting for Lisa and Aaron to arrive. Lisa and Aaron were wonderful trail angels and gave us all this amazing food, salad, chicken salad.. and brought...
BMT Day 14 (Trash-bag Raincoat)
Day 14 (April 26, 2022, Tuesday) Started out in the rain this morning.. "it started raining about 7 or 6 o’clock yeah it didn’t rain till this morning it didn’t rain at all last night. It was really nice to get to camp early yesterday after our big long 6 mile Hill."...
BMT Day 13 (Naked Ground)
Day 13 (April 25, 2022, Monday) Hardest day on the BMT! Met some nice folks at the top of the hill bearing gifts of food! Kim - section hiker Jamie - trail angel with magical raspberry cheese, apples, and super cool slippers (couldn’t figure out the name but they...
BMT Day 12 (Stealth Camp)
Day 12 (April 24, 2022, Sunday) Day 12 was hard. “The only critters we saw were snails on poop and poop twice" "yeah twice and two other day hikers and it was hard a lotta hill climbs I guess all will be the same tomorrow”. "For the most part it was kind of an...
BMT Day 11 (1st ‘Real’ 0 Day)
Day 11 (April 23, 2022, Saturday) Fabulous Fontana Lodge restful and yummy food at Wildwood grill. Breakfast was at the Fontana Lodge.. "Oh my gosh, and their biscuits & gravy..." Did laundry and resupplied at the Fontana hiker closet and store, then filled out...
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BMT Day 26 (Mother’s Day)
Day 26 (May 8, 2022, Sunday) "It was a pretty soggy day it was wet when we got up and we got a little drizzle off and on but overall it was a great day to be hiking because we had a lot of hills to climb and we didn’t meet any other hikers until we were coming off...
BMT Day 25 (Triathlon)
Day 25 (May 7, 2022, Saturday) our camp site . . . “The triathlon is in Blue Ridge and three people have walked by before 7 AM, thank you for waking us up Haha. People running by all the time for a competition maybe a navigational and or triathlon yeah something...
BMT Day 24 (Blue Ridge)
Day 24 (May 6, 2022, Friday) Cloudy cool morning at the shelter we had to ourselves. . . A beautiful hike and the easy walking road and the store closed at five but we were able to re-supply and they had wonderful cake at the store. We had considered stopping at...
BMT Day 23 (Shelter & Sacred Turtle Shell)
Day 23 (May 5, 2022, Thursday) “Whew! This was a long day. Oh yeah we made it to the shelter, the shelter was really nice.” The trail maintenance in Georgia has been really nice. Magical ferns everywhere! . . Flora abounds, new varieties and some...
BMT Day 22 (Georgia)
Day 22 (May 4, 2022, Wednesday) First full day in GA. Lisa slept great! No pain in the hip or back at all, most likely due to extracurricular activity the evening before!! Whoo hoo! Ken found a dick tick on him at 4am. “It didn’t give very good head no but it really...
BMT Day 26 (Mother’s Day)
“We had a great fire oh great fire and ken made a beautiful Mother’s Day plant and we discovered an alien and a poodle embedded in a tree when we walked to the bridge to see the sunset – we came up with a whole biology for the alien and his hate for poodles LOL”
BMT Day 20 (Drug & Gun)
Day 20 (May 2, 2022, Monday) At 8:30 am picked up by Gary (Duck Town Copper Inn). What an amazing bunch of experiences he has lived, wrestling for 21 years, radio station DJ at two or 3 different stations 103.9 WPPL and a station in Dothan AL, the condom capital of...
BMT Day 19 (Thunder Rock)
Day 19 (May 1, 2022, Sunday) . “Another magical day on the Benton McKaye we saw a grown black snake and a little baby black snake and hog beds big bad pig beds yes big bed, and they routed out like these huge rocks deep holes the trail was super nice and we...
BMT Day 18 (Trail of Tears)
Day 18 (April 30, 2022, Saturday) “We left dirty camp by the river and thought we would have a nice flat hike but that was a wrong assumption again, up and down up and down lots of wildflowers these really pretty reds little purple cockleshells, little star flowers on...
BMT Day 17 (Night Hike)
Day 17 (April 29, 2022, Friday) It’s a beautiful ridge walk day! Mountains of North Carolina on the left and Tennessee on the right. We got up and left our beautiful virgin campsite at 8:35 am and we are hiking along and really proud of our campsite. We hiked 15.4...