https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jiH4B0gNp30&feature=youtube_gdata_player
Benton MacKaye Trail: Deep Creek Bridge
Deep Creek Crossing
It’s October, 2009. I’m standing on the north side of Deep Creek in the Smokies. “It’s not good to be here alone”, I thought. “It’s not safe here. I shouldn’t be doing this by myself. I should turn back. Is there another way?”
I’m at mile 44, three miles shy of the half way point in the Smokies section of the Benton MacKaye Trail I’m looking at my map, tracing a possible alternate route around the swollen torrent that is Deep Creek. I’m considering scooting across the tipped log that’s interrupted by perpendicular poles. That’s what the bridge had become.
Hiking Memories: Four Seasons
Four Seasons on the Benton MacKaye Trail
Reflections on Mileposts on the Trail
Regina Reiter
BMTSouthbound – June, 2009; October, 2009; January, 2013
BMTNorthbound- April, 2010
BMT Davenport Gap to Beech Gap, January, 2010
Links: Photos, Journals, Reflections, Slide shows
http://www.trailjournals.com/mssnglnk Pictures galore in many trail journals
https://forgivenesswalks.com/newsletter-archives/ Words for Winter Walking series
https://forgivenesswalks.com/benton-mackaye-trail/ First Winter Walk and Spring Walk slide shows
Benton MacKaye Trail Winter Thru-Hike Slide Show!
Regina, founder of Forgiveness Walks, completed the 300-mile Benton MacKaye Trail during a walk in January, 2013. Follow her journey, photographed by John Lemberg in slides and music.
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