This night at spring mountain shelter I meet up with Ben "little rock" and Hoyt "ranger Hoyt " this guy is a real character and I'll. spend the next couple days hiking with Ben and he. Ben is an Fed employee going stir crazy sitting at home. His wife is a teacher and soon to be mom. Ben said he would meet up with her in a few days and she would either have a rezuly bag for him to onto us his hike or she was going to take him home to go back to work because the govt was open for business again. Hoyt regaled us with Ranger stories and whenever something went particularly well for him during the day: a well built fire , a particularly long haul over some rocks, a well cooked supper, anything he would let out a "hell yeah!" He was particularly fond of responding to any complaints by him or any other around us with a " Ranger the f— up" or some other arrangement of the very same words in a different tense. And I found out later that he was at the same restaurant in hot springs with ranger mike, real name Oklahaha Mike, havering beers when I declined to join them for the evening activities. Mike had left hot springs a day before the rest of us. I would catch up with mike later and Ben who was leaving the the trail on the 12 th to resupply or go back to work would catch up with me and mike ( I did catch up to him) on the 18th at mountAineer shelter TN. He, Ben, did not go back to work.
Cherokee National Forest, Greeneville, TN, United States
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