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Appalachian Trail, N Carolina - Thumbnails


These are pictures of my August 2001 backpack trip on the Appalachian Trail in North Carolina. This week-long hike brought back memories of when I hiked Georgia to Maine in 1977. To see all the pictures in sequence, click the first picture (or here) and then just keep clicking the right-arrow for the next picture.

00 - A 2100-mile footpath from Georgia to Maine 01 - Follow the white blazes 02 - Bridge over the Nantahala River 03 - Hikers at a shelter 04 - The state line 05 - A very nice shelter 06 - A very nice water source 07 - Delicious berries 08 - Flower 09 - Spider web 10 - Rays of sunlight through the mist 11 - Water log to lessen trail erosion 12 - Tunnel of rhododendron 13 - Muskrat Creek Shelter 14 - My bedroom 15 - First-time backpackers 16 - Day-hiking family 17 - Kimsey Creek 18 - A very marginal campsite 19 - A highway crossing 20 - A nice bridge 21 - Daniel and Rosemary (right) were about to be married by this preacher on Siler Bald 22 - View from 5216 ft Siler Bald 23 - View 24 - View 25 - Wine Spring 26 - Tower on Wayah Bald 27 - Watching the rain from inside Siler Bald Shelter 28 - Making soup 29 - Classic bear bag - but mice climbed up and got a few crackers 30 - A nice campsite 31 - Flower that likes being upside down 32 - Rhododendron - the dominant life-form in the Southern Appalachians 33 - Rhododendron 34 - My little pack and the big Wasilik Poplar tree 35 - A very slow hiker

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