I've got the month of April off so I've decided to hike the Benton Mackaye Trail a third time.
I'm renting a car to drive down from NY, and stopping in SC to see my daughter and grandkids, who I haven't seen since they moved down to Summerville almost a year ago.
I'll a spend a day or two with them before driving to Gainesville, where I'll drop off my car, stay overnight and get a shuttle to start the trail Monday April 4th.
It will be interesting to see what's changed since I last did it in 2015. One thing that's changed is the FarOut app, which would have come in handy when I first did it in 2014 when the BMTA re-routed it off of the Tail of the Dragon to the Yellow Creek Ridge Trail.Rasty was with me when we went through that stretch and navigation was pretty sketchy. The reroute hadn't yet been blazed.The following year it was easier to follow, and since then they've added a lot more trail markers.
Looking forward to getting away from the surreal world we're living through right now
I'm renting a car to drive down from NY, and stopping in SC to see my daughter and grandkids, who I haven't seen since they moved down to Summerville almost a year ago.
I'll a spend a day or two with them before driving to Gainesville, where I'll drop off my car, stay overnight and get a shuttle to start the trail Monday April 4th.
It will be interesting to see what's changed since I last did it in 2015. One thing that's changed is the FarOut app, which would have come in handy when I first did it in 2014 when the BMTA re-routed it off of the Tail of the Dragon to the Yellow Creek Ridge Trail.Rasty was with me when we went through that stretch and navigation was pretty sketchy. The reroute hadn't yet been blazed.The following year it was easier to follow, and since then they've added a lot more trail markers.
Looking forward to getting away from the surreal world we're living through right now
its all good