Heading northbound again from Hogpen gap to Unicoi gap

Two days worth of sights ! And our first camping on the trail!

Hogpen gap (mile marker 38.2) No.Bo. To Unicoi Gap (mile marker 52.5) two days one night 14.3 miles

52.5 miles done! 2135.3 to go…

Spent the day at a nearby RV park. Doing laundry, napping, and waiting out the weather.

Another northbound day today, which is much shorter than the last few only at approximately 8 miles from Neels Gap to Hogpen gap. The weather is rolling in and there is going to be a big storm tonight /tomorrow. The next leg will be 14 miles so a short day today and maybe a zero day tomorrow for rest and weather but we’ll take it as it comes.

Jennifer Pharr Davis is a long distance hiker from the United States of America. She is also an author, speaker, National Geographic Adventurer of the Year, and Ambassador for the American Hiking Society.

We started out from woody gap And are back heading northbound again will finish our day (after climbing blood mountain) at Neels gap for the evening. It’s approximately an 11 mile leg today and though we packed our big bags we’ll be happy to not need to camp out.

28.3 miles done, 2161.7 miles to go!

Our day one hike covered from the Springer approach trail North bound to Hightower gap approximately 8 miles done 2,182 miles To Go!

After day one we hitched a ride from Hightower gap to Cooper’s gap, where Larry and scouts envy were waiting, set up for camp that night. Which means today we are setting out southbound from Cooper’s gap back to hightower gap. Approximately 3.5 miles . Then we will catch a ride north of Cooper’s gap to a place called Woody gap and hike southbound again and finish our day at coopers gap. That leg of today’s hike is a little over 8miles bringing today’s hike to approximately 12 miles.

Total miles to date 17.5, 2172.5 to go!

Sonja Yoerg, author, grew up in Stowe, Vermont, now lives near the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia.

“I don’t consider myself an elite hiker, just a motivated older woman who wants to maximize her trail time and satisfy her curiosity.” Diane Spicer author https://www.hiking-for-her.com/about.html.

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