Day 29 Baxter Peak and the End!

This day hold be final day on my AT hike. We got u packed up and went to the ranger station to get my AT Hiker permit. Since i didn’t come in through the main gate I was required to have one.  After waiting 40 minutes we finally got going. 

The trail at the start was easy. And it had nice scenery. 

The weather was partly cloudy so we had good views 

The path up the mountain. quickly began a very challenging rock scramble. 

Towards the top the path flattened out. 

Finally after 4 hours we got to the top and took some pictures 

“The Archer” ( my trail name) finished. 

But we were not yet. What took 4 hours to climb would take 5’hours to descent.  Such was the ruggedness of the terrain. 

But we took time for pictures and rest 

We finally to the bottom. We made some supper and went to sleep content to have done our first climb together for many years.