14.6 miles hiked today, 22.2 miles N
In or near Dan Gap
Today I got a bit of a late start. Still hiking late kept me on pace. Fairly early in the day I was in Cooper gap I was a army convoy of roughy 30-40 armed soliders. I waved at them and they waved back. What is one to do with a sizeable miliatry force? After they passed a couple guys I was later told were army ranges popped out of brush. One of them told me to clear out of the gap as they had a "rather large bomb" they were about to set off. I told them that their were hikers behind me and after a few seconds one of them got it and ran up the other side of the gap to stop them. Meanwhile a crowd of 10 or so hikers were camped out on the side of the gap waiting for the big show. I joined them for maybe 15 minutes to eat lunch before I decided to push on. 5 minutes up the trail I heard a huge boom followed by gun fire and men shouting. It must have been quite a show!
I spent most of the rest of the day playing tag with Montana Steve until I lost him as I hiked into 6PM.
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