After taking a thru-hike OFF my bucket list in 2000, Bess & Jim and I stayed in touch and developed what would be the first of many friendships from my AT adventures. They insisted I needed to give it another try — maybe go out for a long weekend, lighten my pack. It took us 9 years to coordinate a “one more try.”
Jim planned a 34 mile trip over four days for us going from Davenport Gap, which is just north of the Smoky Mountains in NC to Hot Springs, NC — a Trail town. Here is my photo journaling from my second backpacking trip on the Appalachian Trail. To read about this trip and the continued learning lessons I had in far more entertaining detail, keep an eye out for my AT Memoir Trilogy — here is a link for the first of the 3 –
amazon.com/author/jackiemckool
the next two will be out later this year!
