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Writer Carlie

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I do my best to see beauty in everything, even the mundane.

Always Remember: Life is meant to be lived.

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I do my best to experience life without limits

Always Remember: The joy of life is in the journey.

The most recent adventures!

happygolondons

400 miles and counting! Also photographed is Jones

We took lots of beautiful photos from the balds be

Thru hiking the Appalachian Trail on a rainy after

We get lost in the beauty of the woods. • AT 202

New trail vlog is up! • We visit Clingmans Dome

The people you meet along the way is one of our fa

Finished our slack pack from Spivey Gap into Erwin

What a day. Our friends @2chics4feet offered to sl

What a day. Our friends @2chics4feet offered to slack pack us and we decided to push big miles to make it into Erwin, TN. Slack packing is when some one else carries the majority of your gear to your next destination while you carry a really light weight day pack with essentials like food for the day and water. We dropped off our stuff in the back of DKS car. We knew there would be afternoon rain storms but decided to leave our rain gear in her car because the rain would be welcome in the hot afternoon.
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After hiking up and over Big Bald, we could see the thunderstorm off in the distance and it was moving away from us. We thought we were in the clear so we pushed on hiking. We passed by Bald Mountain Shelter and had lunch at a campsite a little further up the trail. It started to sprinkle on us so we packed up lunch early because we wanted to hike over little bald before the storm so we wouldn't get caught on an exposed ridge in a storm.
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We made it over half a mile towards little bald before the storm hit. The temperature dropped 20ish degrees, lighting started flashing and crackling all around us, the winds picked up, we were getting soaked, and then we were getting pelted with hail. Lots and lots of hail. After about 5 minutes of getting hammered by the hail, we decided to head back to the shelter to wait it out. On our way back to the shelter, the storm intensified and we had to take shelter under a leaning tree for about 10 minutes.
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The trail turned quickly from dry, to a small creek, to a river, to a lake. Our walk back to the shelter was ankle deep. Everything we were wearing was soaked and we were chilled to the bone. Teeth chattering and shivering. We rested at the shelter for over an hour while another small hail storm passed through and then we finally decided that we needed to push on to the road crossing and our friend could pick us up there. Before we left the shelter, a friend (@bqmiller72 ) gave us a couple of trash sacks to wear as make shift ponchos to hold our body heat in so we wouldn't be so cold.
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We made it to the road crossing safely after a long day of being wet and cold. It was one of our more stressful situations on trail. We did

New trail vlog is up! • Our first two days in th

Onnn the AT, I had my legs raised. Hiking is how I

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