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!                ...

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...

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...

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...

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...