Springer-Hawk Mt shelter: Today was a great day! The temp got up to mid 70's, which is the hottest I've been since last summer. The hike was beautiful with lots of views and people to meet. This trail is much more populated than the buffalo river trail that I'm used to. We met an awesome couple Brandon and Jessica that we plan to hike with for a while. Tomorrow we think we will hike about 13 miles depending on how we feel. Our camp at Hawk mtn shelter has almost two dozen tents a privy and a little spring fed creek. The creek is guarded by a deranged bat that is constantly bluff charging you and then turning at the last second. We think it has white nose syndrome. None the less, we filtered all the water we needed.
Day 2 04-01-14 13-miles
Hawk Mt shelter-Woody Gap
Today was a pretty smooth day. Longest day so far. We intend to taper off for the next couple days and build back up to an even longer day. Like anything you have to take long days and short days to build up strength. We are still hiking with Brandon and Jessica. Today we witnessed first hand some army rangers training to maneuver in a fire fight. It involved lots of machine gun fire and even a couple flash bangs. When I say first, I mean it was literally happening around us!! I was 10 yards ahead of Dawn and the others when the A.T. erupted with machine gun fire and yelling. I took a video and I'll post it later. So far the AT has been extremely good to us. Dawn is doing wonderful! I'm a little sore, but no more than expected. Life goes easy.
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