Carolina Blues

I just arrived back from a great weekend in North Carolina. I will make this post pretty short. We got in to a camp site friday night around 11pm during a rain storm. So Dan and I set up our gear and tried to keep everything as dry as possible. Saturday we woke up and made our camp site a little bit more durable for the conditions. We went and climbed some water falls and did some hiking around the river. We also saw some hikers that were doing the AT. The Appalachian Trail is a trail that stretches more than a thousand miles from Georgia to Maine. It takes at least 6 good months of vigorous backpacking and trekking to complete. My hat goes off to anyone who even attempts it. Anyways, saturday night was a cold, wet night. It isn't alot of fun standing in the rain next to a fire that won't stay lit. But TJ, Clint and Dan did a great job of keeping it going for as long as it did. I tried to stay dry under a tarp that was protecting my tent. It poured pretty much the entire night which made for a muddy, cold, wet time. But when we woke up this morning, the weather couldn't have been any better. Just what I was needing to keep my spirits high. Dan, Clint and myself went and did some trout fishing and then we packed up our gear. Before Dan and I hit the road to come back to Nashville, we went and hiked a small part on the AT to a fire tower that has one of the best views of the mountains. It was Dan's first time up to the tower so he got to carve his name into the wood like TJ and I had already done on previous trips. It was nice to share the fire tower experience with Dan. I believe it helped to complete the trip for the three of us. Anyways. Here are a few pictures. Sorry I don't have any more, but I really did not want to get my phone out in the rain. Enjoy this week coming up!!!

-Joel