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Day: |
019 |
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Date: |
Wednesday, 21 May 1986 |
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Start: |
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Finish: |
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Daily
AT Miles: |
23.8 |
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Daily Other Miles |
1.3 (1.2 to shop, 0.1 to Shelter) |
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Total
AT Miles: |
359.8 |
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Total All Miles |
372.1 |
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Weather: |
Overcast and cool in the morning. Sunny in
the afternoon. |
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Accommodation: |
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Nutrition: |
Breakfast: Muesli, health drink.
Lunch:
Biscuits and peanut butter, health bar.
Dinner: Chilli macaroni,
potato chips, instant pudding. |
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Aches: |
Left Achilles and both heels. |
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Animals Seen: |
Cows. |
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People Seen: |
One AT Thru-Hiker, two overnight hikers,
six others. |
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Pictures: |
Here |
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GPS Track: |
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Journal: |
Got up at 7am and rang Barb at 8:20am
before leaving. Mark decided he was going to hang around for a
cooked breakfast but I had places to go and wanted to get to the
Iron Mt Gap store before it closed. The day was overcast and
started unimpressively when the Trail was extremely bad as it
followed a creek upstream. However, as the day progressed things
improved and the Trail wound its way around the slopes of mountains
through forest and rhododendrons. It climbed to the summit of bald
Beauty Spot where the views were reasonable – still cloud about –
then climbed to the summit of Unaka Mt (5180ft) which was in the
middle of a mossy conifer forest. I had lunch there. The Trail
then descended over a series of knobs in sunshine until it reached
Iron Mt Gap where I arrived at 4pm. I walked down the road, off the
AT, for 0.6 of a mile to a small store where I managed to find
enough provisions to last to Damascus and ate a pint of ice-cream
and had a Coke. I returned to the Trail at 5:15pm and then walked
another six miles to Clyde Smith Shelter through reasonably-graded
hills in forest and a lovely late afternoon sun. I arrived at
7:30pm and met John again, an AT Thru-Hiker and born-again
Christian, I had met earlier in the afternoon. My fire was slow
because of damp wood but had a filling dinner including a can of
chilli, potato chips and Coke. Didn’t get to bed until well after
dark and still hadn’t repacked provisions or had a wash. Too late
to stop, but not a bad day. |
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