Today we went to hike on the Pump Gap trail in Hot Springs, NC. It was a good hike, about 7 miles from what we figure. Some of it pretty steep, even too steep for us to go on. We went on the Lovers Leap trail (neither one of us leaped), and ended up on the Pump Gap Trail. The trail followed the French Broad River for most of the time, and that was nice. It was pretty high water today, and thus very brown and muddy. One could hear water flowing from most places on the trail, or maybe I just imagined that…

We saw some lizards, and I saw a bunny and a wild turkey. Teresa was a little slow. No bears were seen which was good since we couldn’t remember what kind of bear we should try to intimidate and what kind of bear we should act like a rock for.