BMT Day 10 (Last Day in Smokies)
Day 10 (April 22, 2022, Friday) Arrived at Fontana Lodge. Not much to say, Lisa was tired. . 11.46 miles
BMT Day 9 (Stone Living Room)
Day 9 (April 21, 2022, Thursday) There was a tiny drizzle early this morning but mostly just a beautiful day. “Chipmunks and geese and geese and humans and humans we included humans but because they’ve been such a rare species today at least over a dozen humans were...
BMT Day 8 (Food Rations)
Day 8 (April 20, 2022, Wednesday) 30 degrees waking up. Ken's quote of the day: "Every day we stumble, sometimes we fall and we pick ourselves up and some hills are bigger than others". Our lunch and breakfast food rations for...
BMT Day 7 (Tunnel)
Day 7 (April 19,2022, Tuesday) We crossed two big creeks that were super cold and we went through the coolest tunnel and yodeled and had a pack of devils behind (it was a family with many children). [video width="176" height="144"...
BMT Day 6 (Wrong Trail)
Day 6 (April 18, 2022, Monday) First thing this morning it was raining, then it quit raining, and then it started raining, and then we went the wrong direction right off the bat for 3 1/2 miles. So then we hiked 3 1/2 miles back for a total of 7 miles and started back...
BMT Day 5 (Uphill, Downhill)
Day 5 (April 17, 2022, Sunday) Joey the driver, picked us up at 9:45 am from the Super Eight (which was fabulous)! We had clean clothes, and a good night’s rest even with the fire alarm. And they let us check in at 10am...
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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 21 (Sign-Eating Trees!)
Day 21 (May 3, 2022, Tuesday) 9:45 am back to Thunder Rock campground, started hiking at 10am and uphill 2200 feet. Fairly uneventful day. We discovered that Tennesseans (and their trees) do not like signs! ...
BMT Day 25 (Triathlon)
“Now we’re staying warm and dry like little worms in our sleeping bag yes wet and damp and chilly outside yes and it wasn’t supposed to rain but it did.”
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...