Standing Bear Farm to Roaring Fork Shelter
Wow, today was a bitch of a climb. the entire day was up, up and more up over Snowbird Mountain and Max Patch. We saw a FAA radar tower closeup on Snowbird and Max Patch was once used as a landing strip for military airplanes, I believe during WWII. Max Patch was a really cool expanse of grass on the top of a mountain in the middle of a forest and it seemed to stretch on for a long time. We had originally planned to camp up there tonight but a bad weather front was moving in and I didn't really want to be stuck up there if the bad weather turned out to include lightning athough the morning would have been really cool. Oh well maybe the next bald will come on a better weather day.
The other thing that Princess and I noticed today was the discrepancies in mileages between our guidebook and the actual mileage we walked. The mileages we list at the front of each post are from our book but we are pretty sure that there are some issues with their relationship to reality.
Tonight was the first time in a while that we have gotten separated from our trail family and in talking to some other hikers it sounds like there are some foot issues so hopefully those get fixed and everyone gets into Hot Springs as planned. I forsee a huge breakfast on Saturday morning in my future.
Met a guy today who carries a hockey stick as a trekking pole. Great idea!
Now boarding flight 2179 to Hot Springs...this is your final boarding call.
- Snowfox
Sent on the go from my Peek
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