eight miles and no big issues.

Jan 27, 2009

 I took a hike with Larry yesterday for eight miles over off the road to nowhere up in the Great Smokey Mountain Nat park. Overall the ups and downs we only went up 34 feet. It does not sound like much but actually the over all gain was 3440 feet up and 3406 feet down. We did this hike to plan on a longer one later in March so we had fully packed backpacks to add weight and help those legs get tighter. I as a rule fall behind since Larry is a good bit smaller than I and hikes like a mountain goat. This hike he had been cutting wood for two days and was sore. I had a good time picking on him from time to time about keeping up with him all day. He was a little slower than me on the uphill but was much faster on the down hills. I used to hate up hill like a bad case of ugly and relished down hill. Its starting to get the opposite now. 

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