Thursday, April 1, 2010
Day 18 3/24
Hiked 16.4 miles today. Glorious weather – I think my arms are sunburned again... I should probably get some sunscreen in Hot Springs. Really nice views from Rocky Top *sings Rocky Top song* and Siler's Bald. The trail was slushy snow or soupy mud most of the day. Lots of snow from Derrick's Knob Shelter to Double spring Gap. I had a 1 hour lunch at Derrick Knob – nice stone shelter with plexiglass sky lights (so is Double Spring). Nate-dog, Picker, Cornpatch, Pace Car, Guidefoot, and Boomhouer hiked with me til lunch, and Mike. I caught up to Dr. John in the pm and hiked with him thru the snow. Saw my first slug this morning. First fir trees too on Jerkins Ridge (Fraser firs and spruce). Really pretty. Nice views of Clingmans's Dome. Tonight with Picker, Hollywood, No Point, Wanderer and Walleye, Dr John is texting.
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Rocky Top
ReplyDelete"I wish I was upon old Rocky Top down in the Tennessee hills,
ain't no smog or smoke on Rocky Top, ain't no telephone bills. Once I had a girl on Rocky Top half bear the other half cat: wilder than a mountain lion, sweeter than soda pop, I still dream about that."
Chorus: "Rocky Top will always be home sweet home to me. Good old Rocky Top, Rocky Top Tennessee".
(banjo solo)
"Oh corn won't grow up on old Rocky Top, soil's too rocky by far, that's why all the folks on Rocky Top get their corn from the jar!"
Chorus...
Yes folks, the State song of Tennessee.