SHOE’s Hike in the Smokies- Day 3

Surprisingly I slept pretty well for being on a slant. I think it was close to 8:00 before I rolled out of the tent. I felt blessed that it was not raining when I woke up so that I could get everything packed up. It was already going to be a mess to get all the wet gear packed up, the last think I needed was rain.

We got started at 9:20. We decided to start hiking in our camp shoes since we had several stream crossings right at the start. We ended up hiking about 2 miles in them before donning our boots. But within my first 5 steps I found my self going into the splits while trying to get down to the first water crossing. What a way to start the day.

It was a nice walk back to the car. The trail was mostly wide and well graded. It looked like it used to be an old road. And the trail meandered next to Little River which gave us sights and sounds to walk to.

All and all it was a great hike for a total of  15.6 miles. I knocked off 2 more trails on my Smokies list. The Little River Trail and Rough Creek Trail. And 4.8 miles of the Sugarland Mountain Trail.

We saw a bear on the side of Clingman’s Dome Road on the way back to my car.