Backpacking pictures

Photographs from our spring break trip are finally off our camera and on the computer, so I thought I'd post some. Note the weather. The fact that I am out in it should impress upon everyone what a good recreational companion-wife I am. I have since sworn never to go backpacking in subfreezing temperatures again.


Don and Julia drove us to the trailhead. When we got out, it was snowing horizontally. I tried to appear to be happy anyway.

This picture is from the next day. It had stopped snowing, but it was still too cold to sleep that night. Also that night, we unfortunately shared a shelter with a snoring woman named Newt. We were afraid she might shake down the mountain. I couldn't feel my feet at all that night. The kid with Jeremy in this picture is from church. We were standing on Big Cedar, on our way to Blood Mountain, where we camped that night. Blood Mountain is the highest point on the Georgia AT.

When we're in Arkansas in a couple of weeks, we want to climb Petit Jean and Sugarloaf again, for old times' sake. Jonathan, are you up for it?