Day 3: 3/7/14
Made it to a hostel/store. Wolf Pen Gap Country Store. A
couple of beds in rooms above the store serve as a hostel kinda thing. $25 for
a kickass bed, a shower and clean clothing. Not to mention some very amazing
trail magic by a man called Fresh Ground. He sits somewhere on the trail and
cooks food for anyone passing through. He'll sit there for ten days or so, move
100 miles up the trail and do the same thing. Calls it The Leap Frog Cafe.
Started doing it 2 yrs ago and is mostly funded by donations. There's a karma
box at the hostel. Take from it what you need (if anything) and put in what you
don't need. Someone left some biscuit mix and coffee. Gonna use those and $5 as
a donation. Cooked hot dogs fried in left over bacon grease. Best hot dogs
hands down. Hiked today mainly with Rabbit and Weatherman. Met up with Smokey
at Woody Gap too. No one was eager to push up Big Cedar Mtn. 1.5 miles up then
down. Not to mention Blood mtn. After that is the tallest mtn in GA. Also met
Prada today. He was SOBO hiking and planned to summit Springer today. Here I
was thinking "Holy moly that's another 17 miles from here. Where'd he start
the day?! And how!??" I asked him how and he just laughed. Started late
August and hiked through winter. Hope he summited today. Definitely keeping the
name MathMagician, though may shorten it to M&M. We'll see.
Staying at Wolf Pen Gap Hostel
(PS: 10 miles tomorrow may very well kill me)
- Sam [3 pictures]
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