This is the little oasis of Standing Bear Farm. It has everything we could ever want without ever having to step a foot into town...but I do like towns.
We are all enjoying the wondrous sunset on Max's Patch...and each other's company, it looks like.
The mini tent-city on Max's Patch. Look at the fly in the center of the picture... I probably had 10 swarming around my head that day at any given moment. Those little sucker's bite, too. they bite hard enough to draw blood. And it hurts. badly.
We've more or less been hiking on the Tennessee/North Carolina border for a couple weeks now. At nearly every road crossing, I've seen a Welcome sign to either one of these states.
A double decker shelter. I don't recall the name of this one - they all have special names. This one didn't have a broom. someone probably took it home as a souvinere (I can't spell tonight...how do you spell this word??? My bedtime's at dark, and it's nearly midnight now, so i'm a bit loop.). Anyway, the floors were covered in dust and dirt. but were used to that, i guess. We met Wolf Taffy this evening, and he had to help the emt people evacuate an older man off the mountain after his heart decided to not work probperly. not so good. but the man's ok.
Does anyone live in the shelter, or hikers just come and go?
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