June 1st, 2009

Jack and Chris report they are okay. They stayed at Doublespring Shelter, North Carolina on Saturday night. There was a father/son trekking team and a guy/girl going to a reunion. Last night they had a brush with a big black bear. The bear pulled out Chris' trekking poles and clawed a couple drinking bottles. The bear was there in the morning when they woke up and Jack took some pictures of the bear. They report they walked 21.2 miles today. Not sure, but think they were at Pecks Corner Shelter. They hope to be in Hot Springs, North Carolina in a couple of days.

* We had a nice talking to by Trevor, a Northern transplant in TN about his ramblings at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. Another character of the trail.*