Some trail magic in Coopers gap. At least I think it's magic . My shuttle driver survivor Dave said something about 4 gallons of water in a gap, I wasn't sure then what he was talking about I'd feel bad if it was promised for some of his clients - a little. I only took 20 ounces to mix up some gator aid.
This was not really my first trail magic. While I was at the Hiker Inn I met up with another couple from Rome Georgia and they treated me to supper in town, Dahlonega. It does not rhyme with Taladaga, accent on the second syllable. Dahlonega was a really cute town and reminded me of Woodstock VT. I had shrimp and grits and it was heavenly, washed down with Terrapin Ale.
We put one of my Florida firemen hiking buddies on a shuttle out- he had blown his knee out. His two buddies are going to continue on to Neels gap. I'm waiting for them at Gooch Mountain shelter. Tomorrow will be 13 miles to Woods Hole Shelter half way between Bird Stamp and Bird Gap (?).
And I had a long chat with my first Copper Head ( isn't that what you call a rattler in Geogia?) He was sitting right beside the trail and I think we both startled each other. I poked him with a stick but be wasn't moving. He said my trail name could be Snake but then I'd have to wear an eye patch so I'm thinking Copper reminiscent of The Fox and The Hound (sort of) He didn't let me hear his rattle until the third rock. It was then I decided to bush sack around him VERY conscious of the fallen rotten logs and knee high poison ivy. NEVER put your hiking poles down (in poison ivy) AND I have become very Leary of putting my PicStic on the dirty end of my hiking pole. They do know how to grow poison ivy in Georgia !
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Chattahoochee National Forest, Suches, Georgia, United States
This was not really my first trail magic. While I was at the Hiker Inn I met up with another couple from Rome Georgia and they treated me to supper in town, Dahlonega. It does not rhyme with Taladaga, accent on the second syllable. Dahlonega was a really cute town and reminded me of Woodstock VT. I had shrimp and grits and it was heavenly, washed down with Terrapin Ale.
We put one of my Florida firemen hiking buddies on a shuttle out- he had blown his knee out. His two buddies are going to continue on to Neels gap. I'm waiting for them at Gooch Mountain shelter. Tomorrow will be 13 miles to Woods Hole Shelter half way between Bird Stamp and Bird Gap (?).
And I had a long chat with my first Copper Head ( isn't that what you call a rattler in Geogia?) He was sitting right beside the trail and I think we both startled each other. I poked him with a stick but be wasn't moving. He said my trail name could be Snake but then I'd have to wear an eye patch so I'm thinking Copper reminiscent of The Fox and The Hound (sort of) He didn't let me hear his rattle until the third rock. It was then I decided to bush sack around him VERY conscious of the fallen rotten logs and knee high poison ivy. NEVER put your hiking poles down (in poison ivy) AND I have become very Leary of putting my PicStic on the dirty end of my hiking pole. They do know how to grow poison ivy in Georgia !
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Chattahoochee National Forest, Suches, Georgia, United States
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I think snake works. The idea of an eye patch eludes me at the moment. But I can see the sort of weird fate that brings two living beings together having some meaning.
ReplyDeleteJudd, there are rattle snakes, and there are copperheads. Two separate snakes. Both poisonous. I have also read (reliable source, but I forget where) that recently the rattle snakes around here do not always "rattle" any more, and in fact encountered one on the AT that did not. He sat there, not moving, until my brave hiking partner did move him with a stick. But be aware that there are those two and be careful about fallen logs, high weeds, etc.
ReplyDeleteI cannot seem to sign my name under the "select profile" thingy - I'm no computer whiz - but this is Trailweaver. (Rome, GA)