Day Six
13.5 mi. 1,500 ft. Up at 7 and got picked up by Ryan, the AirB&B Host’s grandson, at 8 for the three mile trip to the trailhead. It was a blue sky morning, crisp,...
Category: OHT
Day Five (Zero)
0 mi & 0 ft. Well, the wind blew all night and the temperature this morning was in the 30s. It was nice to wake up inside and in a real bed. A hot...
Day Four
15 mi. 700 ft. Without severe thunderstorms to worry about last night, I slept pretty well. I suppose walking 21 1/2 miles helped, too. It was definitely colder when I got up this morning...
Day Three
21.5 mi & 3,600 ft. I was startled awake by something. As I was trying to figure out what, there was a big flash and five seconds later a clap of thunder followed. The...
Day Two
19 mi & 3,300 ft. Up at 6:15 and had breakfast and packed by 7:30. The mountain top campground was enveloped in fog with visibility about 100 ft. I hiked out at the south...
First Day
18 mi & 2,800ft. I did get to Fayetteville, AR at 10:30 PM and Ubered to my motel, where they did have the gas canisters I mailed to myself. I finally got to bed...
8 responses to “First Day”
Looking good, SloBro. How do you take a picture of yourself crossing a stream?
Thanks JR. Crossing? Cross it and live, set up camera with timer, wade back out.
After you cross the river, do you dry off in any way? Hannah and I learned to cross the creeks of Santa Barbara. She by changing into creek shoes and then changing back. I found just plodding through was fine. My hiking shoes were wet but not soggy. But I would hike that way for just another hour. You have 17 miles! Dry socks?
Just wade on through and keep hiking. There were three fords in 17 miles so no good reason to change to my second pair of socks. Will wear those today and let yesterday’s dry today.
Good looking snake. Glad he got right of way. OZ
Love to see you are out there getting your hiking season under way early this year! I will of course be following along and enjoying your perspective on the OHT.
Take care!
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OZ, Great to hear from you. Yeah, we talked it over and the snake said he wasn’t moving, so I said, “Have a nice day” and went around:^)
Nice trail so far. Well signed. Five fords to get to mile 35. Lots of little and not so little ups and downs. Scene two people in two days. Kind of like the AT, but out in the wilderness.