[at-l] Springer trip report (highlights)

[rbenhameda@comcast.net (Rami)]

I may post a full report soon, but for now the highlights.....

Hummingbird and Dutch Treat went way out of their way for us and I want to say here and now what nice folk they are.

Here goes:
rain rain rain rain rain rain rain rain rain rain rain rain rain rain rain rain rain rain rain

sleep sleep sleep

drive drive drive drive drop off at fs42 for the girls drive drive drive drive drive drive drive drive drive drive drive drive drive drop off at fs42 for me

walk walk walk walk HI GIRLS!  Been having fun?
walk walk Hi Glen! Nice to meet you.  Great shelter you have down there.  Sure you can take our picture but quick the rain's coming. (Glen's great, can we get him on this list?)

rain walk rain walk rain walk rain walk

Stover Creek shelter is tiny!  Well, it's just the 5 of us, we'll be fine until others show up.

rain cook rain rain rain cook rain cook rain eat rain eat rain rain rain Hi Hikers!
Matt Scott before Matt goes home and Scott hikes to Maine
Brian on his way to Harper's Ferry

squeeze rain sleep rain sleep sleep sleep sleep MAMA!  I'm Gonna throw UP! Buhhhg!
cry puke rain panic

sleep sleep

Matt can take me to my Car!  I don't have to speed hike to Woody Gap! 

sun sun eat eat hike hike hike hike hike hike hike CAR!

DMB JAMS IN MATT's CAR! drive drive drive drive drive drive drive drive drive drive drive drive drive drive drive drive drive
switch cars (drop a 20 in Matt's car w/out him seeing)
thankyouthankyouthankyou
drive drive drive drive drive drive drive drive drive drive drive drive drive drive drive drive drive drive drive drive drive drive drive FS42!
hike hike hike hike hike hike hike hike hike HI Girls, how was your day?
Jade's still sick
eat pack load jade onto my shoulders with pack hike hike hike hike hike rest rest rest hike hike hike hike (HI Squirlgirl! I love the skirt!  Jan will be proud) hike hike rest rest rest hike hike CAR!

drive drive drive drive drive drive Amicalola has LOFTS on the top floor! sleep sleep sleep sleep sleep
Ice cream is available whenever the restaurant is open!  Jade eats ice cream!
take turns hiking and chilling with Jade and her Ice cream
Jade's feeling better, maybe Pizza for the big kids and plain buttered pasta would make Jade happy in town?
drive drive drive drive drive drive AHH!  PUKE!  Jade's ok, Leigh is sick! d-r-i-v-e s-l-o-w d-r-i-v-e s-l-o-w
sleep sleep sleep sleep
hike sleep hike sleep hike sleep 
everyone seems to be all better now, lets drive up 19 to GSMNP!
Drive drive drive drive drive drive drive ! ! Walasi Yi! stop shop talk drive drive drive drive drive drive (Fontana's over there <- wanna go?) nope, just drive
drive drive drive drive Camp
camp cook eat eat play play sleep sleep sleep sleep
pack pack eat drive drive drive drive NEWFOUND GAP! drive drive drive drive drive
drive drive drive drive drive drive drive drive drive
HOME!
sleep sleep sleep sleep
bye honey, have a good day at work
sleep sleep sleep
hi Doc, what's that?  I have Strep Throat?  Nice!


Hope that isn't too vague for everyone, but that's about all I can remember right now.

-r


Note to others:
If you hear stories about a little girl who told every hiker she met that she puked in her mama's hands and that her dad's a "gearhead geek" that was us.


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