Did a weekender on the Smokies AT this weekend and saw a southbounder from Connecticut who goes by John Galth (sp?)(from a fictional character in the book Atlas Shrugged). He stayed at Cosby Knob Friday night, and expects to reach Springer by Christmas.
In the shelter register, a couple of other southbounders were there last week, Jessica and BS. BS left a piece of an earworm in his entry which I thought appropriate for the snowy season up there: “When Omar the eskimo gets here, everybody’s gonna jump for joy.”
BTW when I was at Cosby Knob shelter Friday night, these six good ol boys from Florida showed up. It was a riot. They hauled in two six-packs of beer, a six-pack of Coke, a bottle of Boone’s Farm, a full-size axe (!), loads of food, and a wood saw – among other things, like a huge plastic tarp they used to hang across the shelter when the snow started blowing in. They didn’t let all that equipment go to waste, either. They worked as a team and cut enough firewood to have us a roaring fire well into the night, that was still going stong after we turned in at 10:00 or so (Cosby Knob has a fireplace).
steve hiker