Hump Mountain
Location: US 19E / Mountain Harbour Hostel (393.1 miles)

Our day started off with the climb up Hump Mountain and its several false summits. Being bald, and the high point in the area, it was also very windy, and the climb up the mountain was greatly slowed by having to brace from falling over from the wind. (We were practically leaning over to the side into the wind just to keep balance.

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View from Little Rock Knob
Location: Little Hump Mountain (386.2 miles)

Today, we planned on a 20 mile day, which would allow us a short 6 mile day into the Mountain Harbour hostel tomorrow. Later, we realized our plan to Bradley Gap was only 18 miles, because math is hard. (Actually, we confused Little Hump Mountain with Hump Mountain.)

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Spring Arrives
Location: Clyde Smith Shelter (368.3 miles)

I finally slept well last night, and the morning was just cool enough for me to not want to get out of my sleeping bag. What finally did it was Beast having words with the guy who set the fire last night. All I really heard was Beast saying, "You just don't give a shit," but the conversation apparently started with fire guy asking Beast if he "pooped on the trail". (Seriously? What kind of person would even ask that?!)

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Nolichucky River
Location: Deep Gap (354.4 miles)

As mentioned yesterday, we had one of the hostel's cats sleep in our cabin last night. This went as well as could be expected. The cat, Ghost, took turns sleeping next to us (at least, according to Beast; I didn't notice the cat on my upper bunk for very long). Ghost was ultimately evicted around 4 am when he got bored and started walking over Beast's neck and curled around his arm and nibbled at it.

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View of Erwin, TN
Location: Erwin, TN / Uncle Johnny's Hostel (342.2 miles)

I didn't sleep well at all last night; I'm not entirely sure why. The shelter was a little tight, but nothing we hadn't seen before. It did pour around 3 am, which was quite loud on the shelter's roof.

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