Friday, April 27, 2007

a weekend in the woods



So this weekend as Kristi visited her friend Jill in Cincinnati, I kindly asked her if she would drop me off in Smoky Mountain National Park. At the park I met up with my friend Nick and his dad from Michigan. Being first time back country hikers, we got a little over excited and bit off a hike which was almost bigger than we could chew. We started at Clingman's Dome (at 6670 feet it is the highest point on the Appalachian Trail), which had just opened that day after being closed all winter. Over the next 3 days we followed a 31 mile loop back to where we started. Each night after we set up camp we frolicked in the mountain streams. Here are some pics of our adventure.



5 comments:

Kristi Van Der Merwe said...

love, our tent looks amazing...im so glad you bought twenty of them on ebay so that we could find the PERFECT one...:) I love you so much, and am so glad you had a great weekend!

SvenJosefson said...

nice, nice, very nice

Heather said...

31 miles Ruco?? Holy crap. No wonder you were so tired. It's a good thing Kristi didn't go...geeez!

Kristi Van Der Merwe said...

Peace Corps recommended books for Africa! Can we get them minus nine hills which is still sitting in my office...?

1. Mango Elephants in the Sun: How Life in an African Village Let Me Be In My Skin, by Susana Herrera
2. The Village of Waiting, by George Packer
3. Nine Hills to Nambonkaha: Two Years in the Heart of an African Village, by Sarah Erdman
4. Love in the Driest Season: A Family Memoir, by Neely Tucker
5. Whites, by Norman Rush (former PC Volunteer in Botswana)
6. Mating: A Novel, by Norman Rush
7. The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency, by Alexander McCall Smith
8. Black Death: AIDS in Africa, by Susan Hunter

Kristi Van Der Merwe said...

ok, I dont think all of those were peace corps recommended...haha. woops. ek is lief vir jou.