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May 14, 1983, 43 years ago today: After attaining the ridge crest of the Nantahala Range, the Appalachian Trail followed that crest westward paralleling the Nantahala River gorge, still climbing. Several viewpoints looked almost straight down a few thousand feet into the gorge.

#backpacking #hiking #landscapephotography #NorthCarolina #nature #forest #mountains #AppalachianTrail

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May 14, 1983, 43 years ago today: After attaining the ridge crest of the Nantahala Range, the Appalachian Trail followed that crest westward paralleling the Nantahala River gorge, still climbing. Several viewpoints looked almost straight down a few thousand feet into the gorge.

#backpacking #hiking #landscapephotography #NorthCarolina #nature #forest #mountains #AppalachianTrail

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May 14, 1983, 43 years ago today: We finally dragged our libidos, kicking and screaming, out of Wesser at 1:00. After crossing the tracks, the Appalachian Trail began a major ascent, rising more than 3000 feet from the gorge. It was the biggest climb yet on the AT. Nevertheless, the trail was well laid out, and we were now LEAN, MEAN MILEAGE MACHINES, so it was no big deal.

#backpacking #hiking #landscapephotography #NorthCarolina #nature #forest #mountains #AppalachianTrail

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May 14, 1983, 43 years ago today: We finally dragged our libidos, kicking and screaming, out of Wesser at 1:00. After crossing the tracks, the Appalachian Trail began a major ascent, rising more than 3000 feet from the gorge. It was the biggest climb yet on the AT. Nevertheless, the trail was well laid out, and we were now LEAN, MEAN MILEAGE MACHINES, so it was no big deal.

#backpacking #hiking #landscapephotography #NorthCarolina #nature #forest #mountains #AppalachianTrail

3rd day: Heading down Kelsey Creek from Paradise Lake with a lot less snow on the ground than when we climbed.

Lots more details here: https://valhikes.blogspot.com/2026/04/paradise-kelsey-creek.html

#California #SiskiyouCounty #KlamathNationalForest #MarbleMountainWilderness #KelseyNationalRecreationTrail
#hiking #nature #backpacking #landscape #travel #hike #outside #mountains #KelseyCreek #wildlife

3rd day: Heading down Kelsey Creek from Paradise Lake with a lot less snow on the ground than when we climbed.

Lots more details here: https://valhikes.blogspot.com/2026/04/paradise-kelsey-creek.html

#California #SiskiyouCounty #KlamathNationalForest #MarbleMountainWilderness #KelseyNationalRecreationTrail
#hiking #nature #backpacking #landscape #travel #hike #outside #mountains #KelseyCreek #wildlife

3rd day: Heading down Kelsey Creek from Paradise Lake with a lot less snow on the ground than when we climbed.

Lots more details here: https://valhikes.blogspot.com/2026/04/paradise-kelsey-creek.html

#California #SiskiyouCounty #KlamathNationalForest #MarbleMountainWilderness #KelseyNationalRecreationTrail
#hiking #nature #backpacking #landscape #travel #hike #outside #mountains #KelseyCreek #wildlife

3rd day: Heading down Kelsey Creek from Paradise Lake with a lot less snow on the ground than when we climbed.

Lots more details here: https://valhikes.blogspot.com/2026/04/paradise-kelsey-creek.html

#California #SiskiyouCounty #KlamathNationalForest #MarbleMountainWilderness #KelseyNationalRecreationTrail
#hiking #nature #backpacking #landscape #travel #hike #outside #mountains #KelseyCreek #wildlife

3rd day: Heading down Kelsey Creek from Paradise Lake with a lot less snow on the ground than when we climbed.

Lots more details here: https://valhikes.blogspot.com/2026/04/paradise-kelsey-creek.html

#California #SiskiyouCounty #KlamathNationalForest #MarbleMountainWilderness #KelseyNationalRecreationTrail
#hiking #nature #backpacking #landscape #travel #hike #outside #mountains #KelseyCreek #wildlife

2nd day: Starting off fighting snow, heading north on the PCT as the trail eventually gets to a ridge line walk. We headed up, appropriately, Big Ridge for the day's destination, then returned to Paradise Lake.

All the details: https://valhikes.blogspot.com/2026/04/paradise-big-ridge.html

#California #SiskiyouCounty #KlamathNationalForest #MarbleMountainWilderness #PacificCrestTrail #PCT
#backpacking #hiking #nature #landscape #travel #hike #outside #mountains #peakbagging #peakbagger #snow #lakes

2nd day: Starting off fighting snow, heading north on the PCT as the trail eventually gets to a ridge line walk. We headed up, appropriately, Big Ridge for the day's destination, then returned to Paradise Lake.

All the details: https://valhikes.blogspot.com/2026/04/paradise-big-ridge.html

#California #SiskiyouCounty #KlamathNationalForest #MarbleMountainWilderness #PacificCrestTrail #PCT
#backpacking #hiking #nature #landscape #travel #hike #outside #mountains #peakbagging #peakbagger #snow #lakes

2nd day: Starting off fighting snow, heading north on the PCT as the trail eventually gets to a ridge line walk. We headed up, appropriately, Big Ridge for the day's destination, then returned to Paradise Lake.

All the details: https://valhikes.blogspot.com/2026/04/paradise-big-ridge.html

#California #SiskiyouCounty #KlamathNationalForest #MarbleMountainWilderness #PacificCrestTrail #PCT
#backpacking #hiking #nature #landscape #travel #hike #outside #mountains #peakbagging #peakbagger #snow #lakes

2nd day: Starting off fighting snow, heading north on the PCT as the trail eventually gets to a ridge line walk. We headed up, appropriately, Big Ridge for the day's destination, then returned to Paradise Lake.

All the details: https://valhikes.blogspot.com/2026/04/paradise-big-ridge.html

#California #SiskiyouCounty #KlamathNationalForest #MarbleMountainWilderness #PacificCrestTrail #PCT
#backpacking #hiking #nature #landscape #travel #hike #outside #mountains #peakbagging #peakbagger #snow #lakes

2nd day: Starting off fighting snow, heading north on the PCT as the trail eventually gets to a ridge line walk. We headed up, appropriately, Big Ridge for the day's destination, then returned to Paradise Lake.

All the details: https://valhikes.blogspot.com/2026/04/paradise-big-ridge.html

#California #SiskiyouCounty #KlamathNationalForest #MarbleMountainWilderness #PacificCrestTrail #PCT
#backpacking #hiking #nature #landscape #travel #hike #outside #mountains #peakbagging #peakbagger #snow #lakes

The high country shouldn't be accessible yet, especially just a few days after a storm, but it was already like June out there. We headed up to Paradise Lake on the Kelsey Trail and had the popular spot all to ourselves. Hiking around once there was more limited, but possible.

1st day: Up along Kelsey Creek to Paradise Lake along the Pacific Crest Trail among the Marble Mountains.

Excruciating details and mounds of photos: https://valhikes.blogspot.com/2026/04/paradise-paradise-lake.html

#California #SiskiyouCounty #KlamathNationalForest #MarbleMountainWilderness #KelseyNationalRecreationTrail
#hiking #nature #landscape #travel #hike #outside #mountains #backpacking #snow #wildflowers #KelseyCreek

The high country shouldn't be accessible yet, especially just a few days after a storm, but it was already like June out there. We headed up to Paradise Lake on the Kelsey Trail and had the popular spot all to ourselves. Hiking around once there was more limited, but possible.

1st day: Up along Kelsey Creek to Paradise Lake along the Pacific Crest Trail among the Marble Mountains.

Excruciating details and mounds of photos: https://valhikes.blogspot.com/2026/04/paradise-paradise-lake.html

#California #SiskiyouCounty #KlamathNationalForest #MarbleMountainWilderness #KelseyNationalRecreationTrail
#hiking #nature #landscape #travel #hike #outside #mountains #backpacking #snow #wildflowers #KelseyCreek

The high country shouldn't be accessible yet, especially just a few days after a storm, but it was already like June out there. We headed up to Paradise Lake on the Kelsey Trail and had the popular spot all to ourselves. Hiking around once there was more limited, but possible.

1st day: Up along Kelsey Creek to Paradise Lake along the Pacific Crest Trail among the Marble Mountains.

Excruciating details and mounds of photos: https://valhikes.blogspot.com/2026/04/paradise-paradise-lake.html

#California #SiskiyouCounty #KlamathNationalForest #MarbleMountainWilderness #KelseyNationalRecreationTrail
#hiking #nature #landscape #travel #hike #outside #mountains #backpacking #snow #wildflowers #KelseyCreek

The high country shouldn't be accessible yet, especially just a few days after a storm, but it was already like June out there. We headed up to Paradise Lake on the Kelsey Trail and had the popular spot all to ourselves. Hiking around once there was more limited, but possible.

1st day: Up along Kelsey Creek to Paradise Lake along the Pacific Crest Trail among the Marble Mountains.

Excruciating details and mounds of photos: https://valhikes.blogspot.com/2026/04/paradise-paradise-lake.html

#California #SiskiyouCounty #KlamathNationalForest #MarbleMountainWilderness #KelseyNationalRecreationTrail
#hiking #nature #landscape #travel #hike #outside #mountains #backpacking #snow #wildflowers #KelseyCreek

The high country shouldn't be accessible yet, especially just a few days after a storm, but it was already like June out there. We headed up to Paradise Lake on the Kelsey Trail and had the popular spot all to ourselves. Hiking around once there was more limited, but possible.

1st day: Up along Kelsey Creek to Paradise Lake along the Pacific Crest Trail among the Marble Mountains.

Excruciating details and mounds of photos: https://valhikes.blogspot.com/2026/04/paradise-paradise-lake.html

#California #SiskiyouCounty #KlamathNationalForest #MarbleMountainWilderness #KelseyNationalRecreationTrail
#hiking #nature #landscape #travel #hike #outside #mountains #backpacking #snow #wildflowers #KelseyCreek

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May 13, 1983, 43 years ago today: Heading north from Springer Mountain, the tiny unincorporated community of Wesser, North Carolina is the first trail town through which the #AppalachianTrail physically passes. This corner of Wesser is a narrow strip along the floor of the deep, heavily-wooded, steep-walled gorge which the Nantahala River has gouged through the mountains.

#backpacking #hiking #landscapephotography #NorthCarolina #nature #forest #mountains #AppalachianTrail

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May 13, 1983, 43 years ago today: Heading north from Springer Mountain, the tiny unincorporated community of Wesser, North Carolina is the first trail town through which the Appalachian Trail physically passes. This corner of Wesser is a narrow strip along the floor of the deep, heavily-wooded, steep-walled gorge which the Nantahala River has gouged through the mountains.

#backpacking #hiking #landscapephotography #NorthCarolina #nature #forest #mountains #AppalachianTrail

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May 13, 1983, 43 years ago today: Heading north from Springer Mountain, the tiny unincorporated community of Wesser, North Carolina is the first trail town through which the #AppalachianTrail physically passes. This corner of Wesser is a narrow strip along the floor of the deep, heavily-wooded, steep-walled gorge which the Nantahala River has gouged through the mountains.

#backpacking #hiking #landscapephotography #NorthCarolina #nature #forest #mountains #AppalachianTrail

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May 13, 1983, 43 years ago today: Heading north from Springer Mountain, the tiny unincorporated community of Wesser, North Carolina is the first trail town through which the #AppalachianTrail physically passes. This corner of Wesser is a narrow strip along the floor of the deep, heavily-wooded, steep-walled gorge which the Nantahala River has gouged through the mountains.

#backpacking #hiking #landscapephotography #NorthCarolina #nature #forest #mountains #AppalachianTrail

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May 13, 1983, 43 years ago today: The Appalachian Trail was a gently-graded path, meandering along wooded mountainsides, avoiding the summits of Tellico, Black, and Rocky Balds, but touching their ridge crests occasionally. After a long descent into Tellico Gap, it crossed a gravel road amid a dense cedar forest and began to climb Wesser Bald.

#backpacking #hiking #mountains #landscapephotography #nature #NorthCarolina #mountains #forest #AppalachianTrail

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May 12, 1983, 43 years ago today: I walked non-stop for the first 10 miles. The final 6 miles of today’s hike were nothing more than a hazy blur of fatigue. I can barely remember anything of the trail past Wayah Bald until I reached the stubbly crest of a ridge crisscrossed by logging roads four miles later.

#backpacking #hiking #landscapephotography #NorthCarolina #nature #forest #mountains #AppalachianTrail #outdoors

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May 12, 1983, 43 years ago today: I walked non-stop for the first ten miles. This mountain pass marked the onset of a long climb up to the summit of Wayah Bald which was the grueling climax of the ten-mile grind. Along the crest, the AT joined a paved road which had also ascended from Wayah Gap. The hard surface was not kind to my feet, which had been pounded by my non-stop marathon.

#backpacking #hiking #nature #forest #NorthCarolina #landscapephotography #mountains #AppalachianTrail

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May 11, 1983, 43 years ago today: It was 10:00 when I finished shopping. The streets were deserted except for me and some crickets. The store had been the only business in town still open, and it was just closing.

I stopped to buy a coke from something labeled “Talking Vending Machine.”

Dropping my coins in the slot, I was treated to the tinkling notes of a music box playing the song “Home on the Range.”

#backpacking #hiking #nature #NorthCarolina #outdoors #AppalachianTrail

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May 11, 1983, 43 years ago today: When I reached Winding Stair Gap, I found a parking area by the side of the new US Highway 64, a main thoroughfare in these parts. At the edge of the parking area, a pipe jutting out from a large rock formation was gushing out delicious, cold spring water. I filled up my water bottle and sat down to drink my fill before continuing on the Appalachian Trail.

#backpacking #hiking #landscapephotography #NorthCarolina #nature #mountains #AppalachianTrail

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May 10, 1983, 43 years ago today: By 4:30, when I reached Betty’s Creek Gap, I had already surpassed my previous longest day, having hiked almost seventeen miles. At that point I caught an intense second wind and made the ensuing two-and-a-half-mile ascent of Albert Mountain without a stop.

#backpacking #hiking #outdoors #landscapephotography #NorthCarolina #nature #forest #mountains #AppalachianTrail

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May 10, 1983, 43 years ago today: We had already covered almost ten miles when we stopped for lunch in a clearing at Beech Gap, three miles past the summit.

The next portion of the hike was every bit as scenic as the morning’s had been. It was mostly sidehill trail, well down from the ridge crest.

#backpacking #hiking #landscapephotography #NorthCarolina #nature #mountains #forest #AppalachianTrailUpdate

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May 9, 1983, 43 years ago today: Dave and I had lunch in Bly Gap, just across the state line into North Carolina. One state down and eleven to go.

#backpacking #hiking #nature #NorthCarolina #hikingadventures #landscapephotography #mountains #forest #AppalachianTrail

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May 9, 1983, 43 years ago today: Dicks Creek Cap in Georgia is the point where the Appalachian Trail crosses a lonely stretch of US 76 less than nine AT miles from the North Carolina border. My tent was pitched in the woods just past the gap. A few feet away was a roadside picnic area beside US 76 where I could make and eat dinner and breakfast in style.

#backpacking #hiking #outdoors #landscapephotography #Georgia #nature #forest #mountains #AppalachianTrail

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May 8, 1983, 43 years ago today: There is nothing like trying to pack up everything you own in a downpour. My sleeping bag was soaked, my tent was hopeless; everything was drenched. Adding insult to injury, the rain came to a dead stop about five minutes after I had finished packing.

#backpacking #hiking #outdoors #landscapephotography #Georgia #nature #forest #mountains #AppalachianTrail

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May 8, 1983, 43 years ago today: Awakening in my tent just after midnight, I instantly felt a vague sense of uneasiness rippling through the dark forest. Outside, the air seemed leaden and dead. The evening breeze had died, and the gorgeous starry canopy beneath which I had gone to bed had faded to dark grays and black.

#backpacking #hiking #outdoors #landscapephotography #Georgia #nature #forest #mountains #AppalachianTrail

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May 7, 1983, 43 years ago today: Dave was shooting for a fifteen-mile day to Montray Shelter, and I tried to stay with him. I struggled on through a haze of pain and fatigue until almost dark, but I only made thirteen miles to a campsite located on the site where an old “cheese factory” once stood, perched on a ridgetop high up the slopes of Tray Mountain.

#backpacking #hiking #outdoors #landscapephotography #Georgia #nature #forest #mountains #AppalachianTrail

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May 7, 1983, 43 years ago today: And then, disaster struck. Last night, swarms of mice, the only permanent inhabitants of almost every Appalachian Trail shelter, staged a mass assault upon my backpack. Dave, more experienced than I, had put his food in a stuff sack and hung it from a nail projecting out from a rafter beneath the shelter roof.

#backpacking # #hiking #hikingadventures #georgia #mountains #nature #forest #AppalachianTrail

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May 6, 1983, 43 years ago today: Cowrock Mountain was the star of the show today, with many views from the open, rocky ledges and terraces around the summit.

#backpacking #landscapephotography #hiking #hikingadventures #georgia #mountains #nature #forest #AppalachianTrail

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May 6, 1983, 43 years ago today: My camera received heavy use this morning as well, as I traversed another group of scenic ridges with equally picturesque names.

#backpacking #hiking #outdoors #landscapephotography #Georgia #nature #forest #mountains #AppalachianTrail

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May 5, 1983, 43 years ago today: After seven miles of ups and downs, we hit a stretch of continuous climbing for the next six. That was where I lost Dave and Russ for the remainder of the day. Or, rather, where they lost me. It was a comparatively gentle climb for the most part, but I have a long way to go before my body is truly ready for this adventure.

#backpacking #hiking #outdoors #landscapephotography #Georgia #nature #forest #mountains #AppalachianTrail

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May 5, 1983, 43 years ago today: There was a nice view along the way from Ramrock's ridge crest and there were some excellent vistas from the summit of Big Cedar. It was still early spring at those elevations, there was not a lot of foliage to block the views. There was plenty of green in the valley far below, but trees were just beginning to bud up here.

#backpacking #hiking #outdoors #landscapephotography #Georgia #nature #forest #mountains #AppalachianTrail

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May 4, 1983, 43 years ago today: Dave and I only made nine miles today. We were tired and sore and got off to a late start this morning. The terrain was heavily wooded with no real views, although there were some steep climbs.

#backpacking #hiking #outdoors #landscapephotography #Georgia #nature #forest #mountains #AppalachianTrail

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May 4, 1983, 43 years ago today: I went to bed right after dinner but was not destined to get much sleep. Somewhere around 1:00 or 2:00 in the morning, the stillness of the mountain night was broken by the long, eerie shrieks of mortars plummeting to earth and subsequent loud explosions.

#backpacking #hiking #outdoors #landscapephotography #Georgia #nature #forest #mountains #AppalachianTrail

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May 3, 1983, 43 years ago today: At a spot called Three Forks, four miles from Springer Mountain, the Appalachian Trail crossed a fire road beside the convergence of three streams which had become raging torrents. A blinding mass of rain was creating a surreal, semi-aquatic woodland.

#backpacking #hiking #outdoors #landscapephotography #Georgia #nature #forest #mountains #AppalachianTrail

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May 3, 1983, 43 years ago today: Temperatures dropped considerably last night when the wind kicked up and stayed down today. Rather late on a cool, damp morning, I set out from Frosty Mountain, having smoked my last two cigarettes with breakfast.

#backpacking #hiking #outdoors #landscapephotography #Georgia #nature #forest #mountains #AppalachianTrail

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August 16, 1983: The Appalachian Trail followed dirt roads for most of the ensuing five miles to US 7; the final mile or so was on a paved road. I passed through an attractive mixture of farms and woods: green and gold fields of ripening corn, cool, dark forest groves, green pastures dappled with yellow dandelions, some amazing views back towards the Taconics.

#backpacking #hiking #outdoors #landscapephotography #Massachusetts #nature #forest #mountains #AppalachianTrail

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October 1, 1983: The first day of October in the North Maine Woods was a warm one — even warmer than yesterday. It was not even a bit chilly when I awoke.

#backpacking #hiking #outdoors #landscapephotography #maine #nature #forest #mountains #AppalachianTrail

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September 4, 1983: The scramble up Mount Kinsman was a bear. The AT followed Eliza Brook back up towards the ridge crest. At first, it climbed on a weedy, grassy old woods road above the brook, but it quickly dropped back to the banks of the stream, The AT ascended along the watercourse, often torturously, over the boulders filling the ravine.

#backpacking #hiking #outdoors #landscapephotography #NewHampshire #nature #forest #mountains #AppalachianTrail

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June 3, 1983: There were unbroken vistas from the trail all along the west slope of Little Hump Mountain to its summit.

#backpacking #hiking #landscapephotography #NorthCarolina #nature #mountains #Tennessee #forest #AppalachianTrail