7/31/13

4.17.13

From Hughes Gap to Iron Mountain Shelter
9.2 Miles

This is the section that Chip and I had skipped earlier, the section that passes Greasy Creek Gap.  I'm glad to go back and catch these 9.2 miles.  I started and ended at the hostel in Roan Mountain, TN.  It was a damp day.  I met a man in the woods who was there harvesting ramps. Ramps are wild in these woods.  They taste like a garlic/onion combination.  I had not heard of them before, but he kindly showed me how to identify them and taught me that they can be frozen.  He harvests a year's worth of the plant in these woods for his family each spring.

The trail


Cloudy, misty, view from trail.

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