[at-l] Re: fond things remembered

[krk@speakeasy.org (Kenneth Knight)]

Lovely report.

I got lost in the same place you did. Exxcept I never did find the trail and did go down that road.
Actually, I got nailed by a thunderstorm as I was coming back up trying to find the trail and I
zipped into my tent giving up for the night. The next morning, Saturday, I tried to find the trail,
failed, and just went  down that road into Narrows, Va. where I managed eventually to hitch a lift
into Pearisburg arriving about half an hour before the PO closed. 

  ** Ken **

On 5/6/01 at 10:53 PM, hopefl@juno.com wrote:

> The weather was cold and icy during my hike. Nights dropped into the
> teens and lower. The days saw both sunny skies and freezing
> precipitation.  I woke up at Doc's Knob shelter to snow on the ground and
> more coming down, the fog was heavy. I hiked north after a big breakfast.
> When I reach a power line right of way, I lost the blazes. I assumed the
> AT would just cross the ROW and keep going north. Wrong. At some point I
> had missed a double blaze where the Trail took to the ridge line. I'm
> sure I was enjoying the snow and looking at all the critter tracks
> crossing the trail and just failed to notice the Trail leaving the fire
> road it had been following.  

**  Kenneth Knight    Web Design, IT Consultant, Software Engineer  **
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