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feeling indigo //

The reason BHVR took Legion out of 2v8

Oct. 22, 2025

The Methodist Church. Cades Cove. Great Smoky Mountains National Park, Tennessee Oct. 2025

In order to keep to my kinda strict schedule, I'm having to condense it to 6 night/7 days instead of 7n/8d. If I don't do it this way, I don't get a buffer day to sleep. It also limits the time I'm away from Clio. It also means I'll be hiking like 13 miles a day for most of these days. I gave myself 2 "easy" days of only like 6-8 miles each, one being Derrick Knob → Mt Collins (which covers Kuwohi/Clingmans Dome, and my final day (which is almost all downhill, so I could have done more; I just didn't feel like hiking 14+ miles out and then driving like 90 miles home, you know?). Very excited. Less than a month to go before I test my wits and patience and kneecaps. I still have so much to do before I head out, including finding someone reliable to water all my plants while I'm away. I'm mostly looking forward to eating my shitty freeze dried food so I can throw the packaging away and have a lighter pack. I will absolutely be calorie loading the night before (on which day I'm also running a 5k because I hate myself!). And I just know my fat ass is gonna be needing like 3 extra large pizzas by the time I'm done with this shit 😅 I'm both looking forward to getting a week by myself in the woods and also dreading how shit it's gonna make me feel. Maybe I should have asked for an extra day off, too... Hell, I might just call out that extra day and suffer the write up.

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