[at-l] Fontana to Davenport Gap

[Cody Girl]

That's Beech something?  About 7 miles in from Fontana?  There's a little
point there that you can set up a tent and  see up the canyon.  The owls
carried on all night when I was there. I like that site.

On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 1:24 PM, Cutter <cutter78 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Cooler heads prevailed. We were able to secure reservations at campsite
> 113, which is just past Shuckstack, so we've added another night on the
> trail.
>
>
>
> On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 12:26 PM, Cutter <cutter78 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> 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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