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I should of had it. I was looking up locations with Google Maps Street View last night and was just about ready to look up DWG when I got sidetracked.
Here it is -
odd man out wrote:
I should of had it. I was looking up locations with Google Maps Street View last night and was just about ready to look up DWG when I got sidetracked.
Here it is
“Of all sad words of tongue or pen,
the saddest are these, 'It might have been.”
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LIhikers wrote:
Kidging but all the rocks I'd say somewhere in the Whites
The road to glory cannot be followed with much baggage.
Richard Ewell, CSA General -
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jimmyjam wrote:
Black Rock. Shenandoah National Park
You are next.
Please note this place gives NoBo's a view of what is farther up ahead.The road to glory cannot be followed with much baggage.
Richard Ewell, CSA General -
Astro wrote:
jimmyjam wrote:
Black Rock. Shenandoah National Park
Please note this place gives NoBo's a view of what is farther up ahead.
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odd man out wrote:
Astro wrote:
jimmyjam wrote:
Black Rock. Shenandoah National Park
Please note this place gives NoBo's a view of what is farther up ahead.
The road to glory cannot be followed with much baggage.
Richard Ewell, CSA General -
Astro wrote:
jimmyjam wrote:
Black Rock. Shenandoah National Park
Please note this place gives NoBo's a view of what is farther up ahead.
"Dazed and Confused"
Recycle, re-use, re-purpose
Plant a tree
Take a kid hiking
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If your picture was Blackrock Summit, then that is not the same as mine. I never made it south of Big Meadows on that trip. I'm pretty sure mine is the rock outcropping just below Hawkbill. Here is the Google Earth image. You can see in the bottom center of the picture where the people building the trail said "Hey, I've got a great idea. Lets go out of our way so the trail goes across this big pile of rocks!"
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My first guess would be one of the lakes in Maine, but I don't believe you have been there yet.The road to glory cannot be followed with much baggage.
Richard Ewell, CSA General -
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Upper Goose Pond“Of all sad words of tongue or pen,
the saddest are these, 'It might have been.”
John Greenleaf Whittier -
IMScotty wrote:
Upper Goose Pond
"Dazed and Confused"
Recycle, re-use, re-purpose
Plant a tree
Take a kid hiking
Make a difference -
I'm swamped the next couple days so I don't want the responsibility of posting a picture and then reacting to guesses on a timely basis, so assuming I'm right -- and I'm sure I am -- someone step up and post the next picture.
This will be embarrassing if I'm wrong.
One my favorite spots on the trail -- stayed there on my thru and had lunch there on my section hike of VT -- Stratton Pond.2,000 miler -
max.patch wrote:
I'm swamped the next couple days so I don't want the responsibility of posting a picture and then reacting to guesses on a timely basis, so assuming I'm right -- and I'm sure I am -- someone step up and post the next picture.
This will be embarrassing if I'm wrong.
One my favorite spots on the trail -- stayed there on my thru and had lunch there on my section hike of VT -- Stratton Pond.
"Dazed and Confused"
Recycle, re-use, re-purpose
Plant a tree
Take a kid hiking
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IMScotty wrote:
Everyone looks so bright, new and shiny. I think you are in Georgia Trillium
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Trillium,
I know where you were. I also admit I had to Google a few shelter pictures to figure it out. I will let someone else Tee Off on this one...“Of all sad words of tongue or pen,
the saddest are these, 'It might have been.”
John Greenleaf Whittier -
Here’s one...
mine should be easy.Lost in the right direction. -
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IMScotty wrote:
TJ,
The ball is in your court. But since I never explicitly answered Trillium's post, I am going to call it out.
That was the Stover Creek Shelter.
Lost in the right direction.The post was edited 1 time, last by Traffic Jam ().
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IMScotty wrote:
TJ,
The ball is in your court. But since I never explicitly answered Trillium's post, I am going to call it out.
That was the Stover Creek Shelter.
The shelter was constructed around 2006, replacing the oldest existing shelter in Georgia. The original shelter was built in 1960 and ended up in 3 locations before being destroyed -- Big Stamp Gap (right next to FS42), Cross Trails, and then it's final location on Stover Creek. The shelters useful life was over, the area was overused and needed recovery, so they destroyed it, relocated the AT away from the site, and built the new Stover Creek Shelter in a new location maybe 1/2 mile away. The final location on Stover Creek was in a beautiful location with a great water source. If you know where to look, you can find where the old AT meets the new AT and walk to the site. They did a good job of hiding the old AT; you won't find it by accident.
When the shelter was first erected, someone hung a cheap hammock outside. My boys liked resting there. The hammock didn't last long before it disappeared.
That concludes todays history lesson.2,000 milerThe post was edited 1 time, last by max.patch ().
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max.patch wrote:
IMScotty wrote:
TJ,
The ball is in your court. But since I never explicitly answered Trillium's post, I am going to call it out.
That was the Stover Creek Shelter.
The shelter replaced the oldest existing shelter in Georgia around 2006. The original shelter was built in 1960 and ended up in 3 locations before being destroyed -- Big Stamp Gap (right next to FS42), Cross Trails, and then it's final location on Stover Creek. The shelters useful life was over, the area was overused and needed recovery, so they destroyed it, relocated the AT away from the site, and built the new Stover Creek Shelter in a new location maybe 1/2 mile away. The final location on Stover Creek was in a beautiful location with a great water source. If you know where to look, you can find where the old AT meets the new AT and walk to the site. They did a good job of hiding the old AT; you won't find it by accident.
When the shelter was first erected, someone hung a cheap hammock outside. My boys liked resting there. The hammock didn't last long before it disappeared.
That concludes todays history lesson.
The road to glory cannot be followed with much baggage.
Richard Ewell, CSA General -
I thought mine would be easy but thinking about it, the answer is nonspecific...just a general area. That is probably confusing.
So here’s a hint...it’s where two trails merge.Lost in the right direction. -
IMScotty wrote:
....since I never explicitly answered Trillium's post, I am going to call it out.
That was the Stover Creek Shelter.
That was my very first night ever backpacking. As I had never backpacked before, I was somewhat leery and had some fears, particularly about animals during the night. So, one of the women on WB, whose name escapes me, organized a Hen Hike, and so I thought that if I went with a group of others for the first time that it would be a great way to get my feet wet, so to speak. She set up a private website and called each of us personally to confirm that we really were women. There had been in the neighborhood of 32-36 women who had evidenced interest but when it came time to put boot to trail, there were 5 of us. I was doing this on my vacation and after 4 days of rain, upon reaching Woody Gap, I called the Hiker Hostel and had them pick me up. The next day I picked up the rest of the group where they had stayed in cabins in Suches and shuttled them to Neels Gap. The organizer quit that same day, one of the women quit somewhere between Neels Gap and Winding Stair Gap. The only hiker whose name I remember was Roots and she made it to Newfound Gap. I met up with the last hiker at Trail Days that year, she continued on until the pain from her shin splints became too much to bear, she quit somewhere in lower Virginia. I learned quite a lot from the other women and have gone on to hike/backpack in excess of 250 miles on the AT. Good times! -
Trillium,
Thanks for the story. And the group sounds like a typical cross section of hikers. Four straight days of rain would discourage anyone. But eventually the sun shines again!“Of all sad words of tongue or pen,
the saddest are these, 'It might have been.”
John Greenleaf Whittier
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