3/23/14
Today was our first town day! We got into Mountain Crossings, a nicely situated hiker supply station, last night, and today we headed into nearby Blairsville to resupply and eat some real food.
Mountain Crossings occupies a nice niche: it's far enough along to catch the unprepared thru-hikers and sell them what they've realized they forgot. Their prices are high, but the people are wonderful.
Blairsville is about 15 miles away from Mountain Crossings, so we had to find a ride in. Since there's no public transportation, that mean hitchhiking. Neither Matt nor myself had ever hitched before, so it was an adventure. But it turns out people around here really like thru-hikers - after about 10 minutes standing with our thumbs out on the side of the road, a previous thru-hiker by the name of Shots Fired picked us up and took us in!
Once in town, we descended on the nearest restaurant and ordered two breakfasts each! I had 2 pancakes, a 3-egg western omelette, rye toast, and hash browns. Yum.
We also hit up a local grocery store to supplement the food we got from Mountain Crossings. Pics below - we bought more conservatively this time, but it's still a lot of food (and we also have leftovers from the first grocery trip).
Headed back to the trail soon to hike a mile to our campsite (today's our rest day) and start back up in earnest in the morning!
Pics below: Matt hitching, our food, Mountain Crossings, and two shots of Blairsville, GA.
Peanut butter and honey... Good stuff! What is in zip lock bags?
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