DOUG'S HIKE

Doug, who knows the routes,
Wore his thousand-mile boots.
'Twas a bright and sunny day
As we started on our way,
Doug and his eleven recruits.

Now let me right off say
'Twas done this peculiar way,
Being point-to-point, you see:
Six hiked from A to B
And six from B to A.

Along Brown Mountain's plasant creek,
We took a little peek
Where sharecroppers eked out a living
From rocky soil unforgiving.
Methinks their lives were rather bleak.

We took our break
Near Pedlar Lake,
A pleasant scene
If you've a full canteen
Your thirst to slake.

'Twas a hike not too hard
Finished not too tired,
A hike with pleasant scenery
And lots of mountain greenery
Right in our own back yard.


(Ten-mile NBATC hike of 2 March 2008 on the AT from Long Mountain Wayside to Punchbowl Crossing led by Doug Dejarnette)