hiking

  • We left this morning around 10:30 and drove to Lineville, AL to have lunch before we embarked on our short backpacking trip we stopped at Jack’s. I got a chicken sandwich. It was literally one of the best chicken sandwiches I’ve ever had. It just needed to be spicier. Jack’s is a favorite of Thomas’s…

  • Day 2 – Needle’s Eye – Auburn Falls I woke up this morning at sunrise, the light and animals all come to life and make it hard to be able to sleep in.  I tried to go back to sleep, but it wasn’t in the cards. After about 30 minutes of trying to lay their…

  • Date: November 12, 2023 at 7:25:56 PM CST Day 1: Sipsey big tree – needle eye I drove to the tipsy today I stopped in alabaster to charge up, and I stopped again in Cullman to charge up and have lunch. I continued on to the Thompson trailhead.I parked my car at the end of a…

  • GSMNP – Twenty mile – Gregory Bald  Day 1 – Uphill to Gregory Bald We started this morning from our campsite. We basically car camped last night at Abrams Creek campsite. This morning was good. I made some coffee had some breakfast and we packed up the camp. We got on the road and started…

  • As a quick day trip we decided to go to a spot we’d never been before, Ruffner Mountain. Ruffner offers several different trails, most of which come off of their main gateway trail called Quarry Trail. We decided to do the out and back of Quarry Trail 2.4 miles, or 1.2 miles one way.