[at-l] Low Gap(TN) Safety & Grocery availability?

[lwbooher@halifax.com (Leslie Booher)]

There's one Low Gap on a dirt road next to Beauty Spot.  Tick City!  Be
careful through there.  Four or five years ago, there was a couple killed on
the overlook at Unaka Mt. right in there; a teen-ager killed them for the
$11 they were carrying between them.  None of them were hikers, though.
Maybe one car a week goes through there.  It's so bad that a car passed, and
we talked to the driver; he decided to come back for us instead of hunting
that day because he didn't think we'd ever get out on our own.  In over an
hour, his is the only car we saw.  anklebear

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From: Slyatpct@aol.com <Slyatpct@aol.com>
To: discndog@bellsouth.net <discndog@bellsouth.net>; at-l@backcountry.net
<at-l@backcountry.net>
Date: Tuesday, April 03, 2001 11:39 PM
Subject: Re: [at-l] Low Gap(TN) Safety & Grocery availability?


>In a message dated 4/3/2001 11:11:43 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
>discndog@bellsouth.net writes:
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>> I've read some warnings about the Low Gap area as far as hiker safety.
What
>> is
>> the situation there right now (April 2001) for solo hikers hoping to
hitch
>> into
>> town for re-supply and maybe a couple of cold beers?
>>
>
>I know there are a lot of Low Gaps on the trail, but I don't recall one in
TN
>(or anywhere else) on a road where you could hitch to get to a town.  Which
>town?
>
>If you don't think it's safe or prudent to hitch you may be better off
>waiting for a day hiker at the trailhead and asking for a ride into town or
>walking.
>
>Sly
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