here with Kevin this morning getting some water just had a great night's sleep at nooc uhhuh come on man this would be sick damnn it Kevin I should have hiked here last night kid I never would have made itace it's to not camp on places like this oh really yeah well that's probably the Max Patch thing we made it cha bald just over uh just under 8 Miles gorgeous there's the smokies in the distance even on the Appalachian Trail we've got road construction and expecting delays what the hell all right made it down to the Gap little construction going on yeah yeah Springer Mountain 1 15 I'm 150 miles in in 2042 to go where are we part of the Smoky Mountains hiking Club we're at staca Gap doing all this Construction we a little Trail sign here too fun fact we are stepping on new Appalachian Trail thing excuse us while we cross the road people y' got any food I'm about to ride to town yeah can I hop in the back where we had lunch over the top of that hill behind us you can see how much we dropped yeah oh man I'm not about this life although these steps are great they're good distance they just so mini yeah it's like the uh waterfalls go that burns quick [Music] oh stairs at to down stairs here dude it's just zigzagging they're right above us new section of the trail came from right up there that'd be cool to say you got to build part of the Appalachian Trail sad thing is we like walked down the road right to walk back up to our elevation yep that's why I hate gaps I just EX extended it yeah no detour we'll never know what it's like hiking on that old trail they'll probably build a bridge up at that top thing you and keep it going it still looks like it's been recently all right back on the main trail Stairway to Heaven I know most of my limits but I I do enjoy like can you make it another mile or you just going to [Laughter] hello ppit it's uh Monday May 13th Kevin just went down to get some water from the water in hole we're about mile 153 just stopped at uh Brown Fork Gap shelter met ping from Singapore she was super cool way more hardcore than us and uh yeah we've done 17 miles hopefully I'm going to convince Kevin to do five five more rather than two more so we can make it to uh cable shelter cable Gap shelter something like that but all good it's been a beautiful morning and then turned into a overcast rainy day but just light rain so far hopefully we'll get a shelter set up before it gets too crazy and then storm's coming in tomorrow feet are good uh blisters haven't done anything bad I got my shoes on again and we're fully packed see if this is next Road C passing couple miles out from Fontana Dam there she is right there the at back on trail that's Gorgeous I'll get a video on my phone of that that's beautiful my boy Kevin right there we're uh 23 miles just under 10 hours hiking it is 5:50 p.m. we're about 20 minutes from our shelter and uh uh what what was they saying oh hopefully we're the only people to shelter there going to get a good night rest get there by yeah 6:00 p.m. 6:15 have a great sleep wonderful meal and then off to Fontana damn tomorrow oh there's some people coming maybe they'll give me food see you well guys got some good news and some bad news and all over news all right well all right we've got some uh crazy news good news is we made it uh let me check 20 2 4 miles today that was wonderful got the camp set up sleep at night right next to this beautiful Creek under this tree um so that's great but here is the bad news my feet are in trouble it's all starting to real stir up everywhere so I'll get a closer video on my iPhone but my whole foot is wrecked they're all blistering I hope it callouses but this could be really really bad that could take me out for a week or two we'll see