Mistwalker
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Thought Id share a few photos taken from a recent vacation in The Great Smokey Mountains National Forest.
Its a very large Forest with a LOT of trails.
It was mainly a series of day hikes in different locations so I was mostly traveling light, my walking stick and a couple of sharps, with a few other pieces of kit; compass, ferro rod, and a couple of small lights in my pockets and around my neck and in a shoulder bag. The Fiddleback Hiking Buddy was the main knife on most of the hikes, but I switched to my old RC-3MIL once when I was walking down the middle of a stream. I found the larger mirror on the new compass to be a great help for safely removing all of the suicidal gnats that kept flying into my eyes.
There are several large streams and small rivers.
I like how the Nalgene Guyot works well for well for improvised pre-filtering water before treating.
The streams were great places to test some of my kit.
Several types of fungi up there.
The humidity was so high that even in the shade of the canopy I was constantly soaked with sweat.
Lots of poison ivy
Both eastern and western poison oak
.
Its a very large Forest with a LOT of trails.
It was mainly a series of day hikes in different locations so I was mostly traveling light, my walking stick and a couple of sharps, with a few other pieces of kit; compass, ferro rod, and a couple of small lights in my pockets and around my neck and in a shoulder bag. The Fiddleback Hiking Buddy was the main knife on most of the hikes, but I switched to my old RC-3MIL once when I was walking down the middle of a stream. I found the larger mirror on the new compass to be a great help for safely removing all of the suicidal gnats that kept flying into my eyes.
There are several large streams and small rivers.
I like how the Nalgene Guyot works well for well for improvised pre-filtering water before treating.
The streams were great places to test some of my kit.
Several types of fungi up there.
The humidity was so high that even in the shade of the canopy I was constantly soaked with sweat.
Lots of poison ivy
Both eastern and western poison oak
.
