Early start from Reservoir Road, across the Pedlar River
Bridge on the way to Brown Mountain 5 miles away. Brown Mountain is a 3,000’ climb to a bald
knob. I like the bald knobs as you can
typically have a great view. This part of the trail is full of history or ruinings from early day settlements / communities. It neat to see and image life in the mountains a couple of hundred years ago. Today, was
not my best day. I was struggling in the
afternoon. I like my body was
outworking the calories I was giving it due to the time we had spent in the
woods without a stop in town for a real meal. Running Mink noticed I was struggling and
helped me keep my mind off of it and on eating more snacks. Hiking 20+ miles on a daily basis and
consuming 5,000 to 6,000 calories a day is hard to replace on the trail. Food bags for 7 days’ weigh in excess of 10
pounds so your food value choices are a balance of calories versus weigh. We
arrived a Seeley-Woodworth Shelter for the evening with our lowest mileage of
the week at 20.8 miles.
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