Day 38: Smelly Hiker Convention
We ate more of our fruit for breakfast, not quite ready to return to the land of beige. Though, true exciting news, we heard Andrew and...
Day 37: Laundry (!)
The big goal for the day today was to do laundry, and keep doing nothing. We did give Emily's ankle a test and take a walk over to Taco...
Day 36:Â First Day Potatoes
The breakfast at the super 8 was very beige. A big thing we don't get in the woods (besides at trail magic of course) is fruit. We had a...
Day 35: We Put the ER in Erwin
We woke up and packed up. Ryan, the Funkster's younger brother, had arrived at the campsite late last night while Tyler and Emily were...
Day 34:Â Devils Fork and Rector Laurel
We only had to go 2.5 miles today, since Funky's brother would be meeting us at Devil's Fork Gap tonight (to camp) in order to drive...
Day 33: Taking Inventory
We were expecting rain today, so we made plans trying to somehow get 14 miles while dodging the afternoon rain. We packed up and it...
Day 32: Three Hundo Miles
From Spring Mountain Shelter we wanted to go 18 miles. If we kept up these big days, we would be able to make it to Erwin, TN, our next...
Day 31: Drinking the Dandelions
Tyler received more itchy bumps over the night. They are primarily on the left side of his stomach which is the side that touches the...
Day 30: Mighty Mites
Tyler woke up covered in itchy, what looked to be, bites on his left side. It didn't seem to be hives and definitely wasn't poison ivy,...
Day 29: Frozen Fingers, Lukewarm Toes
We woke up to the rain. It was not heavy rain, but we probably wouldn't have moved from our spot to put all of our soggy stuff into our...
Day 28: Oh Oh It's Magic!...Oh No...
It was the best of days; it was worst of nights. We hit the road, avoided our surrounding poison ivy field, and after a few miles we...
Day 27: Suprise, Suprise
Unsurprisingly, the slant in the tent meant we would wake up in the night having slowly drifted to the bottom on the tent. Tyler still...
Day 26:Â To infinity, but Not Beyond
Hiking in the clouds might sound romantic but it is no fun. So today was all business. We needed 21 miles to get out of the Smokies...
Day 25:Â I Am A Macaroni Bear, I Brush My Macaroni Hair
We ate a delicious, hot breakfast at the Econo Lodge, complete with biscuits and gravy. The shuttle from NOC leaves at 9 and 11 and,...
Day 24: Gatlinburg... Have We Been Here Before
Today was a nearo meaning wd go just a few miles to resupply in town and don't head back to the trail until the following day. Not all...