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Thank you for sharing, I'm glad you're going to get a warm meal and a little rest. Experience makes all the difference,

I bought my GA house from a guy who was on the trail, his brother in proxy role. Anyway he didn’t finish but I respect his ambition and fortitude.

Stay safe and take care out there my friend 👍🏻 God Bless you, and Money 🙏🏻 Appreciate you! 👊🏻Hope the young hikers are doing ok 🤞🏻Good you all were there to help them out 🙏🏻

Using a heavy weight trash bag to line the inside of your pack will keep your spare clothes dry, use one to line the stuff sack for your sleeping bag and ground pad too. Having dry clothes and bedding can literally be the difference between life and death and there's nothing better after a long day of hiking in the rain than a warm, dry change of clothes and a dry sleeping bag.

13.1 miles after the night you had is great. Thank goodness you were all there to help those hikers out. Big lesson learned there. Wishing Money well on his hike to Katahdin, so many hikers out there, you'll team up with someone, if not, keep heading north and enjoy your journey. Thanks for sharing, I look forward to starting my work day off with your updates. 😊

Hi. Just found your channel, plan to follow you in your journey north. I've been section-hiking (small sections) the AT since Feb. 1992 and am now at Caledonia State Park in southern PA. Plan to do one more hike north then probably start hiking closer to the southeast ( now live in the Laurel-Hattiesburg area of south Mississippi). Hoping the Lord will bless you with strength, peace, and success in your hike north. His Creation is beautiful. God Bless!

You are amazing! Best wishes to Money. We enjoyed your travels together.

I’ve seen a few videos lately with people that had to hit the SOS button. In every cause it was a smart move. My guess is several people the last few years have waited too long to hit that button. Glad yall were there to help those guys.

Congrats on completing one month on trail. When in a desperate situation, use your butane stove to dry the wood. This is why I like the SOL Heetsheet Emergency blanket. It is big enough for 2 people and is tougher than mylar. Another good video. Happy Trails. Good Luck, Rick

Various size trash bags and zip-loks for your gear is a good idea, I use the black heavy-duty bags as a liner for my motorcycle T-bags and a cut down one for my ALICE packs. the military waterproof bag stinks bad and makes your gear smell plus they are heavy compared to a trash bag. Surprised those two guys did not have at least some mylar space blankets for emergencies, they were lucky to find a group that had some blankets and comms to get help.

Kudos to Sea Turtle & Forest for calling for help. They were the ladies who provided the quilt & hot drinks to the young men.

Stay safe out there

I was right behind you on the trail. Stayed at Ice Spring Shelter the following night. Heard about the hikers & rescue. Those winds were insane prior. A ranger informed us that they clocked wind gusts at 87 mph on that Tuesday. We rolled into Standing Bear on Saturday @ 3p.m.

You must remember this warm spring weather in a rain forest situation like this can be deceiving. U must keep your pack and gear dry to survive the night. Trash bags inside the pack to keep gear in will help as well as a couple extra for a emergencies to keep warm.

I am so glad to hear that people are willing to help.

A sleepless night. I had one of those. Arrived at the park right after dusk and was met by the part superintendent, who I knew well. I was there to kayak the local river. He asked if I could leave at day break. Two kayakers had arrived late in the day and had gone up to put on the river. They had never paddled this river before. They never arrived. I don't usually kayak without a buddy. But I knew the river very well. I got off at daylight. Never saw either paddler. When I arrived at the park, the superintendent told me they were safe. As it started to get dark, the paddlers split up. One got off and the other went on. Eventually she stopped and bundled up for the night. The first paddler had hiked off and caught a ride. The next morning the local rescue team met the paddler where they hiked back to the river and looked for the other paddler. They found her very close to where they had split up. Of course I had worried all night and made sure I put on at first light. Years earlier I had paddled two different rivers I didn't know and arrived at the take out right at dusk. Decided then, to never got on a river I didn't know after 2 pm. Several years later I was put in that situation and decided not to go. Saved my bacon. Of the three other paddlers only one made it off the river an hour after dark, the other two had hiked off the river. One got chased by a bull and the other had been injured on the river before hiking off, and getting a ride back to the take out.

Beautiful, trekking trails look like here in Our country of Nepal but our trail much steeped up.

It’s not what it used to be. These days I carry a little .32acp but it takes a lot of the fun out of it

I had mild hypothermia after a 13.5 hour hike of which 6 hours were in thunderstorms. All my clothes were soaked and while eating I got shakes and after eating I got into my tent and the sleeping bag was warm. I wasn't in danger but I could see even at a not so cold temperature and not windy how quickly you can get into trouble after you stop moving.

I hated the Smokies and couldn't wait to get out of them. The views were great but having to stay at shelters, not my cup of tea.

What you forgot to mention is the rescue crew risked their lives for a couple of idiots . Where I live we had a chopper go down and three died I knew two of them and their wives and kids and a shelter full of people and not one person knows how to build a fire in the rain. This is pathetic even for the AT I hope the park service sends them the bill.

On The Appalachian Trail a privy is usually about 10 steps away.

Hypothermia is always a little scary to see. Stay warm until it’s time to stay cool!

Could you address the gear failure? How'd their stuff get soaked? Seems odd that that happened to both of them instead of just one.

At times a healthy person must get in a quilt, bag with the person to provide heat.

Rain, cold, biggest dangers out there.

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From your description, it sounds like you were pretty close to hypothermia yourself. Were you "unprepared?" I would say yes, if you showed up to the shelter soaking wet, but you were lucky this time. Willpower won't stop heat loss.

Get some rest. Good idea. How about smoke flares for when the country gets mighty wild? Backup to GPS

Be prepared. Hypothermia is no joke.

Any danger from Bears on this trail ?

Is there a reason no name of the shelter given?

you have to be prepared for all conditions and wet cold weather is going to occur in the Smokies. Layers, but NOT cotton, and waterPROOF gear. Mother Nature is harsh. Spring storms are the worst.

29k people watching video of the ground and bottoms of trees. What am I missing here??

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Curious how this video has gotten over 20k views when all the others before and after are just several hundred… what am I missing?

Nobody made a hot water bottle?

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So you have no film footage of this no pictures no proof whatsoever that's not like a UKpostsr a UKpostsr films everything because the UKpostsrs always got their face buried in that camera and they don't know how to put the camera down can you send the rescue teams stays the night with you I left in the morning find that hard to believe because the rescue team comes in there and does what they got to do and they go back cuz I got to take the person to the hospital or whatever they usually don't stick around and shoot the breeze any other UKpostsr would have got film of this and pictures they wouldn't be telling the story walking down a trail and then the last part of the video you said I'll take you up there and then the video ends and your story was kind of believable towards the beginning I was like okay maybe this happened until you mentioned the part that the rescue team spent the night with you guys if somebody's got hypothermia or something's happened or they have to take somebody to the hospital the rescue team is not going to be spending the night with you the only thing they're going to be doing is what they're there for to save somebody's life and take them to the hospital because they're a rescue service and usually they're on call 24 hours a day so they're not going to be spending the night with nobody so when you said that part it made it hard for me to believe