It has been a while since I last wrote about my hike and the reason for that is that I wanted you to stop laughing and change your pants from wetting them so much; after hearing about my dilemma.

So now, we will move up the Trail a bit and give you something else to laugh about.

As you may know, I enjoy eating more than anything else, except for one thing thing and we won't touch that subject at all.  Now back to the eating. This one day Obsidian and I are leaving the shelter and the word on the trail is that there will be some Trail Magic at Deep Gap about 5 miles away. Like the old bear that I am, I can smell food a mile away without any problem. So, off we go and the trail is really nice to hike on for most of it not to many big rocks or roots to make the hike any harder than need be.

As we are hiking we are talking about what kind of "magic" will be down there. Will it be coffee and donuts or will it be more is what we are tossing back and forth all the to the gap. We are now within ear shot and we hear some noise down below us, our steps pick up almost to a run. Now this old bear doesn't want to be the last in line when it comes to food and he is chomping at the bit to see what they are offering. Obsidian is behind me by about 300 ft. and he can't keep up with me as I am going down this hilly trail.

I come to near the end of the trail and there is a sign for all hikers to follow the arrows to the Red Truck/Green Truck for a hiker feed all weekend!!!  WOW, Free Food All Weekend!!!!!  I'm camping out here and staying here till either they leave or they run out of food.

We ate till we couldn't move and then headed on very slowly till we got to the top of the hill that was over 5,000 ft high.

We enjoyed the food and the company and hope that it happens more as the trail continues north.
  Till Later,