[at-l] Fontana to Davenport Gap

[Cutter]

The roughest day will be the first one. We go from Fontana to Spence Field,
which if memory serves me correctly is about 19 miles. That's followed by
stays at Mt. Collins and Tricorner Knob before hiking out at Davenport Gap.

Actually, to be truthful we might cut out two miles earlier and hike out on
the Chestnut Branch Trail. The mileage will be roughly the same, but the
shortcut will get us quicker to Big Creek Ranger Station where I'm leaving a
car.

We thought about trying to do this hike in three days, but I can't afford to
hire a helicopter to airlift me out, which would be required after that kind
of hike.


On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 11:58 AM, Tom Fort <tom at tjfort.net> wrote:

> the entire smokies in 4 days?  wow.
>
> Quoting Cutter **:
>
> I'm interested to see the outcome of my hike next week. I'll be thru-hiking
> the Smokies in four days.
>
> I haven't done a lot of hiking this year -- just 8 miles last Sunday and
> nothing much else since April.
>
> Still, so long as I don't finish with bloody stumps for legs, it should all
> be good.
>
> Cutter
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