Day 2 - Cosby Knob to Tricorner Shelter

Trip Start Oct 22, 2007
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Trip End Oct 28, 2007


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Wednesday, October 24, 2007

We hiked about 7.7 miles on the second day.  It rained quite a bit that day so I didn't take too  many pictures.  We passed within 300 feet of the summit of Mount Guyot - at 6,621 feet it is the  4th highest peak in the eastern US.  Unfortunately there were no good views due to the poor  weather.  A lot of times the trail basically ended up looking like a small stream from all the  runoff.  Aside from the rain, it wasn't too difficult of a hike: we hiked from 4,740 feet to  5,920 feet.

We arrived fairly early at Tricorner Shelter and, after brief discussion, decided against hiking  any more that day based on the weather.  Our reasoning was that the weather might be better the  next day, so why push on in the rain.

We met a couple Southbound thru hikers showed up a little later on - "Sweet Tea" and "Lady minus  the Tramp" (she would have been "Lady and the Tramp", but she had to board her dog for the Smokies because dogs aren't allowed on the trail in the park).  Sweet Tea was determined to get a fire going.  We gathered as much wood as we could and used our knives to whittle the wet outer bark off as many sticks as possible.  It took some time and a significant group effort, however a fire was successfully lit and we dried our shoes and clothes while talking and joking.  They were probably the best company we had the entire trip.  Lady hiked 26 miles the next day - needless to say, it was the last time we saw her.  We'd meet up with Sweet Tea again later on.
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