As I mentioned in my last post I wanted to try out this trash bag tick another thru hiker told me about. You essentially stick your feet in a trash bag and pull

I awoke, as usual, cold. It got down to 34 degrees overnight. With all of the fog outside, and my body inside the tent producing heat, everything was wet from condensation. I fell

I stayed in a cabin last night so I slept well for once. It was nice. We don’t know how good we have it in this modern day and age until it’s taken

I just want to thank everyone who has reached out to me to make sure I’m okay regarding this incident. I was close to where this occurred but luckily far enough away to not be

I slept ok. I tented in the snow on slight hill, so I slid around quite a bit. That and temperature got down to 35. As always during these cold mornings, I was

I got back from Dahlonega late the previous evening so I slept in a little this morning. One of the first things I did was weigh myself. I started out at 235 lbs.

I didn’t sleep well. I don’t know, maybe sleeping on the floor in a public bathroom had someone to do with it? My feet hurt from the 20+ miles we hiked the day

I awoke to temps in 20s again. My first night sleeping in a shelter was ok. There must have been 20 of us in the shelter. We were crammed in like sardines in

I awoke to mid 20 temperatures. Needless to say I didn’t want to get out of my warm sleeping bag again. One thing I can say for sure about the Smokies is it