When Rene called us and said he was hiking down here from NewYork, my first question was, “What happened to your car?” He assured me that his car was fine, but that he and his friend Lia were determined to walk from his home in New York to the Little Gap area on the Appalachian Trail. People who hike from Georgia to Maine in one summer are called Through hikers; people who do it a piece at a time are called Section hikers.
This morning I picked them up where the trail crosses Blue Mountain Road. It took them eleven days to get here, but they saw bears, eagles, deer, and beavers, and they ate blueberries, various edible weeds, and wintergreen, met all kinds of interesting hikers, and had a once-in-a-lifetime experience.
Tomorrow they are going back to New York, but on a bus. After hearing about their experiences and adventures, you may be wondering if I am tempted to get out there and hike.
No.
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