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Last year, a friend, Julian, I decided to go backpacking in an NC section of the Appalachian

mountains.

It was a relatively remote mountain or trail where the Boy Scouts camp at the base.

We were planning on hiking the length of the trail from one side of the mountain to the

other, which was supposed to take about four days, I think.

We drove separately to the mountain and Julie beat me to the parking area of the trail,

which consisted of dirt road right next to a creek.

There were three other cast-parked, including hers, my met up with her, and we started

hiking up the approximately 3000 feet to the summit at around 3pm.

Now my backpack two times before and camped about three times before this.

I was pretty young each time, and someone else was in charge of researching the area that

we were in, but basically checking the weather for the time that we'd be there, and what

the camping area was like, but this time I was the one who had decided where to hike.

I didn't look at the weather or what was going on with the trail at the time, just that

it looks beautiful and like a fun track.

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