The Smokies Tomorrow
Miles: 5.7
The Smokies tomorrow ;)
We hiked 5.7 miles the last 1 in the rain. We are staying in a hostel tonight that had a hot tub! First real bed of the entire trip and feeling fine other than a food coma of eating the food we couldn’t pack. We are all packing like 12 lbs average for food per day. So heavy packs and we are waking up very early. The guy who got pissed on showed up out of a shuttle and confronted us today and it didn’t really shiver our timbers that bad atleast at the moment since we are a group of seven people but it stressed out our friend due to the fact you can only camp in shelters in The Smokies and they are few between. (Please refer to previous posts for context lmao) We will be sleeping most likely in the same campsite. And he’s been acting like a crackhead. I would be angry too if I were him but he’s genuinely not seeking to work it out and doing everything he can to harass our friend and tweak out. Worse comes to worse, he slashes our bear bags at night which would actually really suck because we need our food. It’s a six day stretch. So yeah he can’t fight us obviously but he can sabotage us. Precautions have been made with authorities to best of our ability. Also Green had been giving us Jujitsu grappling lessons which were really fun and it’s kinda an epic thing to be training in especially if we continue training in the mountains.
Zero and Scary are staying at a shelter and we are meeting at the trailhead tomorrow. Gonna travel fellowship of the ring style.
But last night I got a steak dinner. I lost my spork and Highlander gave me a new one! Fuckman gave me Mac and cheese! And that morning people literally threw their breakfast at me when they learned I was down to honey and peanut butter. I only had 5 miles to hike and they were aggressively trying to help me.
Also in a hiker box today I got a new rain cover for my bag that fits it and toe warmers! All very convenient.
Anyways super stoked for starting The Smokies and I miss you all very very much. Please feel free to reach out
:,D