*** Tuesday, September 13, 2005 ***
- Hiking Trip in the good ol' Smokies -
So me and Mike took a hiking trip recently, which was quite a difference from how we used to go camping. We used to drive to wherever we were going, get a site at a campground, set everything up, build a fire, cook hotdogs, listen to cds, get drunk, get in a fight, then the next day Mike would be pissed cause I don't wake up as early as he does and I feel like shit and don't feel like hiking 20 miles up a damn sand dune. This time we pretty much had the bare essentials, started hiking as soon as we got our stuff packed up, hiked about 3-4 miles a day (which is a decent distance in the mountains), drank filtered creek water instead of beer, and somehow didn't get into any real fights or arguments. It was a lot more work than the old style of camping, but I liked it. Ok maybe not the last day, which was our longest hike, and up the steepest part of the mountain, but the rest was pretty cool. Here are a few of the many pictures I took, more can be seen on Mike's page (see links dummy).
i posted this at 3:30 AM --- 
