About halfway through the day we took in the view from the John Muir overlook. It's impressive. You can't even see the river down at the bottom.
The long descent down the toe of the hill below the overlook was actually well-built, but it was pretty steep at the top. These stairs were more like a ladder, and we both chose to go down backwards.
The other news of the day was Maude's Crack. This is an actual crack in a huge rock wall that just appears out of nowhere in the woods. You can see Doug's blue shirt, where he's standing, for scale.
It "killed me" to pass up doing it, but my legs aren't real happy with the 13-mile days, and it was a big scramble just to get to the crack. And there were still 4 miles to hike. But Doug went up it. Maybe you can see the yellow rope in the crack behind him. You have to use the rope to get up the crack because it's so steep.
Sue had taken a picture of the top a few days ago when she hiked to it.
We completed the miles in pretty good time, thanks to some good trail construction.
Miles walked in 2026: 614.1
Sheltowee Trace miles: 285.4
Sheltowee Trace, Tennessee. John Muir TH to Station Camp Ford, 13.4 miles
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4 comments:
Yep that crack would have been a no go for me..lol Interesting though. Good idea going down those steps backwards.
Ann- I really wanted to do the crack!
Java Bean: "Ayyy, I am not sure about those so-called stairs either! I think I would have had to find a different way down!"
Lulu: "Our Dada would totally have done that crack too! Near here we have a very narrow scramble called Annie's Canyon that is kind of similar where you have to climb up pitons hammered into the walls or else take a longer trail to get to the top. Mama and Dada have been there several times with various people and he's still the only one who has actually done the scramble."
Bean- my dog Chips would do ladders! Lulu- I'm glad Dada can scramble
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