We got a late start getting out of the hotel. Check out wasn't till 12 but we still somehow managed to drag our asses out of bed after a big breakfast and were out around 1030.
Some nicely dressed guy offered the service of his not so nicely dressed friend/brother? to give us a ride to the trail since he wouldn't be needed for 2 or so hours? But not before reminding us that we are in deep red state territory.
Where y'all from he asks.
We reply we.came here from Austin Texas.
He says, well you should warn all those Muslims out there that Texans shoot back.
It was so racist I wasn't sure what we had heard until talking later. We did hear about another shooting at an art gallery this time in town, so I guess he was referring to that.
Anyway, his driver of sorts took us to the trailhead and we began the long slog up put of Erwin.
It was relatively hot today, so hauling the freshly resupplied and almost overloaded packs was particularly hard. We only made it 8 miles till we had to quit. I only took one pi ture of a crazy tree tumor.
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