The W is easily.explained by the picture from the guthook app below. It's a doozy of a day. Good day for music in the ears and a long lunch break.
On the way out of the second bottom an isolated t storm swept through the valley towards us. We were pretty much caught in an exposed field, which though bad for possible lightning strikes, is good for a photo.
After that one passed we made it to the Keffer Oak. It's basically a huge mongols tree, second biggest on AT and biggest in the south. Branches the size of fully grown oaks reached out and dipped to the ground, allowing brave folks like Haulin' Oats to shimmy up to the trunk. We just took a roller coaster picture.
Also, there was a strange caravan of six black caterpillars. Someone suggested it may be a defense mechanism in that they look like a snake from a bit farther back. In fact the girl who first saw them initially thought it was a snake. So good job caterpillars.
After the last climb, we reached sinking creek ridge, which is full of old rock "cairns". Some of them are actually stacked and really neat, but most are just piles. The guthook app says they think old farmers did the stacking. Must have been some really bored farmers.
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