ADAMS: 548 miles down; Only 1,644 to go!
By Jerry Adams, contributing editor, May 14, 2019 | Their chatter let me know they were coming a few minutes before they caught up to me on the trail this morning. I stopped to let the young couple pass and we chatted.
“Since I left Springer in March, more than 500 people have passed me on the trail, “ I said. “But that’s OK. I’m slow. We’ve been out here for more than 500 miles and more than 500 hikers have already left the trail, ending their journey. We’re still here!””
They smiled. We chatted briefly about the two topics on every hiker’s mind — the machete guy and bears. Bears have been wreaking havoc in this area of Virginia, and the machete guy had just been arrested for killing one thru-hiker and cutting up another.
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