Tuesday, April 18, 2017

Day 4- Bears Den Hostel to Blackburn Trail Center

Note:. This is a previous section hike I wrote up and never posted. We have big plans for summer of 2019, so I am getting caught up on our section hike records.

Mar 5
Miles Hiked: 7.9 miles
Total Miles Hiked on this Section Hike: 43

I woke up, clean, warm and ready to make some pancakes. I had stash of Recees Pieces in my food bag, so i added those to the pancakes. Lots of coffee, a nice plate of pancakes and we were out the door. Moving at warp speed.

    Overload hiked with us the whole day, and i dont think we were slowing him down. I had lots of energy, and powered up the rest of the rollercoaster section. 

    During our hike, we met some Chinese day hikers from McLean and we chatted with them about hiking the AT.

   The two ladies in this picture both had High School Freshman girls at home, and asked to pose for a picture with Sage, the AT section hiker.

    Overload took it as a personal challenge to give us trail names. He proposed "Santa" for Sage and "Frosty" for me, since we do alot of winter hiking. Not sure those names are really working for us...but it was a good attempt.

    Trail names are an important part of the AT culture. You are lame if you give yourself a trail name. Maybe we will get our trail names during our next big section hike. 

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