Awesome weekend running the peaks of the AT thru the Smokies this weekend. Rod, Pap, Tanner, Stover, Jacob and I stayed at Spence Field shelter on saturday night. What incredible weather we had as well. The views from Rocky Top were unbelieveable!!! Took a pic with the Power T flag on Rocky Top. Stover and I ended up running/trekking for the weekend. We covered around 9-10 miles on saturday with around 6000 feet of elevation gain. On sunday we ran 8 miles back to Cades Cove via Russel Field.
My pack weight was pretty good, with food and water it was around 21 pounds. Halfway up bote mtn trail I decided to dump the 95oz bladder and just go with 1 water bottle. Due to the water sources I had alot of options for fluids. So the pack weight dropped alot. I also made a cat food can stove that worked very well. Although Sherpa T cooked up some amazing food I still got to use the alcholol stove a few times. No bears or critters were seen. But, we heard coytoes all night and on sunday we heard a pack of coytoes that were NOT HAPPY...one of the most bone chillilng sounds I ever heard.
