Day 13 - Wesser Bald Shelter (April 21)

Road Rash and Stranger at Wesser Bald shelter. We did an 18 mile day yesterday, and we feel good. We wanted to push it and see what we can do because we would like to make it through the Smokies in 5 days and 4 nights. We are all a little concerned about possible cold and snow in the Smokies. I also think it might be difficult to resupply in the Smokies.

Another reason we pushed it yesterday was to put some distance between us and Van Sherpa. Van Sherpa is a guy in his 20s who is very generous with his spiced rum. He drank a bottle of mad dog 20 / 20 before starting on the spiced rum. He puked on the way up to Siler Bald, then fell asleep snoring so loud we did not have to worry about bears. No animal or human would have gone close to him. He was a little too obnoxious for Road Rash and I. Our impression was he would also be too unpredictable. My guess is that the only problem would be if there were two Van Sherpas in one shelter.

We are on to NOC to shower and do laundry this morning.