Day 159 - Saturday, September 18, 2021

So maybe I spoke a little prematurely! Yesterdays hike got a little rocky 😵‍💫🥵but it is “Rocksylvannia” 🤭. 

Today we are continuing hiking from BakeOven Knob Road (1251.3 NoBo) to Parking Lot off Hawk Mountain Road  (1234.0 NoBo) for a total of  17.3 miles.

We began hiking at 9:30 am.




And the rock scrambling is back… these rocks are all upright,  not flat where you are constantly stepping on pointed hard tips of rock 🥵.



Don’t forget the rules…. a constant reminder.






Sporadic sections of trail with less rock 🙏🏻.



View from Hawk Mountain.




🎼 Take me home country road, to a place where I was born… Rocksylvannia, mountain momma…



Amazing how these two trees grew around the rock and lifted it up as the trees grew 😳.


I really spoke too soon … thankfully these rocks were large enough where you could rock hop on top of them to get a through the section. 



We were walking through a flat section of trail when I out of nowhere tripped over a rock catapulting me through the air where I hit a near perfect “Faceplant”. I’m still up a +2 on the slip/fall count 🤭. 



Going across the “Knife Edge”.





Views from Blue Mountain. 

We finished hiking at 5:00 pm.


Appalachian Trail Countdown:
Total trail miles: 1985.4 miles
Trail miles left to go: 207.7 miles

Till next time... Happy Hiking  🥾 

😋


“Acts of generosity in this wild and primitive setting…where basic amenities…are intentionally absent–are often received in a heightened sense of wonder and gratitude by hikers. These acts of generosity are referred to as “trail magic.”

                  (Appalachian Trail Conservancy)



Appalachian Trail Countdown:
Total trail miles: 1954.2 miles
Trail miles left to go: 238.9 miles

Till next time... Happy Hiking  🥾 

😋


“Acts of generosity in this wild and primitive setting…where basic amenities…are intentionally absent–are often received in a heightened sense of wonder and gratitude by hikers. These acts of generosity are referred to as “trail magic.”

                  (Appalachian Trail Conservancy)

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  1. Joe ArcuriSeptember 19, 2021 at 11:08 PM

    Splinter, sorry about the Faceplant fall! 🙁 But well worth it to see the views from Hawk Mountain and Blue Mountain! 😉

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