Today, James and his dad came over to my house to organize all of our stuff in our backpacks so that we had everything except for the food that we were going to buy on our way to Amicalola State Falls. We went to Ingles to buy food for our first 4 days up until Neels Gap. We bought: 2 packs of bagels, a box of 18 chewy granola bars, a box of 8 nature valley granola bars, a bag of trail mix, a jar of pb&j, a jar of honey, ham deli meat, cheese, crackers, 4 packets of Ramen (chicken), summer sausage, 8 packets of Quakers oatmeal, 10 Starbucks instant coffee, mac & cheese, 3 packets of Beef Jerky, 10 tortillas, and snickers. After buying all of the food, we went to the lodge at Amicalola State Falls Park because we rented a cabin out for the night with our dads. At the lodge that night we had dinner with our dads and talked with the people at the lodge about how to get to Springer. We had 2 options:
1. We could hike the 8 mile approach trail from Amicalola State Falls to Springer, or
2. We could pay one of the ladies at the lodge to drive us to the parking lot at Springer.
We chose to do option 2 and pay Kathy, a nice older lady who worked at the lodge, to take us the following morning at 8. We planned to get up early, eat breakfast, then head to Springer with Kathy. When we got to our cabin we packed everything up and were ready to go in the morning. We showed our dads our plan and mapped out everything in the guide map they bought for us. Were both ready, excited, and anxious to finally start on the trail tomorrow morning.
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