Week 6 Pictures

I will eventually get pictures from the whole trip posted.

Mountain Habour Bed and Breakfast - site of the best breakfast on the trail

Watauga Lake's high water level

The inscription on this tombstone says, Lived alone, suffered alone, died alone"

Laundering all of your clothes requires some improvisation

Week 5 Pictures

Our move to Australia really delayed our getting these pictures up, but better late than never.

Once in a while we'd come across old burial sites on the hill tops

Switchbacks

We had our fair share of foggy days

Yes, I'm hiking in my long underwear - everything else was soaked from days of rain

One of my favorite camping spots

Once in a while we'd get reminders that there were communities up there

Hiking across the Roan Highlands in wicked wind; it only got worse the following day

One of the most unique shelters we stayed in - a converted barnhouse

Videos of Max Patch

Videos sometimes do a better job of capturing the feel of a place than pictures, and I felt that was the case on Max Patch.  Here are two clips from the mountain.

Week 4 Pictures

I've been on the road so much since getting off the trail that I haven't been posting pictures.  I will try to finish them up before moving to Australia.

April 20: the coldest day of the whole trip; we woke up with our clothes frozen

Charlies Bunion

Charlies Bunion

The ice didn't melt until the following day

This straw-like ice was all over the side of the trails

On a helipad

Towards the end of a day that Magge called one of the best in her life

Going up Snowbird Mountain

On the way to Max Patch

Trail marker on the sidewalk in Hot Springs, NC

Hot Springs

View of Hot Springs from Lover's Leap

An unexpected place for a Ron Paul fan

Nap time

Week 3 Pictures

Our first snake encounter

Cheoah Bald: my favorite camping spot of the whole trip 

Campfire on Cheoah Bald

Spring pushing its way past dead leaves

Fontana Dam, the tallest dam in the eastern USA

Downstream from the dam

Entering the Smokies

Remains of a mountaintop house

Foggy Smokies

Some parts of the Smokies almost felt like the Northwest