Day 3: Slaughter Creek Campsite to Chattahoochee Gap, 19.6 miles Day 4: Chattahoochee Gap to a vista on Powell Mountain, 18.9 miles We survived the thunderstorms that raged overnight, keeping relatively dry. It was the heaviest most sustained rain I’ve …
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a good start: days 1-2
Day 1: Amicalola Falls Lodge to Cooper Gap, 21.5 (12.3 AT miles) Day 2: Cooper Gap to Slaughter Creek Tentsite, 16 miles miles We took a day and a half to drive down to Gainesville, Georgia. Along the way we …

springer mountain, here we come!
We’ve spent the last week getting ready for the Appalachian Trail. It feels a little strange to be “getting ready,” for the trail, because sometimes I wonder what that really constitutes? You can have all the gear in the world, …