May 4, 2017trekwithpat

May 3: We woke up to some nice weather and decided to push hard to beat the storm system coming in. We hiked 17 miles and crested three mountains including the pictured Big Bald. Amazing 360 view of mountains of North Carolina and Tennessee. Little Bald was also a similar view. Caretaker raced ahead to the shelter to complete 20 miles. The three of us cowboy camped at the top of a ridge and were joined later by Two Chairs. The climb up that ridge was the prettiest I have seen so far– a cascading mountain stream following the trail for a mile with several impressive falls.