My son and I left on the afternoon of Friday July 24th with some friends for a weekend of hiking. I was fortunate to have been asked a few weeks prior by Michael Lammers to go on this trip with him and some of his girls. We started on the Appalachian trail at Woody Gap. After hiking to the top of Big Cedar we set up camp and spent the night. In the morning we hiked more of the trail then trekked down to Lake Winfield Scott. We had lunch and everyone went swimming in the cool mountain lake. Then we were back on the trail to the top of Blood Mountain, which is the highest peak on the Appalachian Trail in Georgia with an elevation of 4,458 ft. We set up camp near the peak and ate dinner. The food was strung up in a tree out of reach of the bears. Following a night of much needed sleep we descended Blood Mountain on the AT to Neels Gap. This was the end of our weekend on the Appalachian Trail.
