Low Gap - Trip miles 318.9 - Elev 4300

Tents and green background with new spring growth


Patches making campfire

Today was a real spring day.....we could smell, hear, taste, see, feel spring. To Crazy Lady it was like spring Renaissance Festival. "Guitar Man" played guitar while we set up camp. Had lunch at Hogback Ridge Shelter.

Patches hangs his hammock and takes Siesta.....

Chipmunk eating trail mix..........................
(Now we know how she got her trail name)

Crazy Lady knitted. Today the crows woke us up, woodpeckers, pecking away & (real) chipmunks all over. The hills are covered in "spring beauty" with budded flowers. "May apple" leaves has no flowers yet, Trillium's full in bloom with "blood root". Hiked 11-12 miles today. Owls are in the woods. Suppose to rain tonight & tomorrow. Camped with Spirit, Change and 3 new male hikers we met today. Bill Sr & Jr went off trail for a few day to see about Bill Sr tooth which has been very painful to him. Still hoping to make it to Erwin, TN by Monday mid day, so..... tomorrow means we must do a lot of miles..........