Adventure Empires

  I'm not sure why I didn't take more pics of this adventure. This trip was my first Kayaking adventure. It was cold outside, and I didn't have a water-proof bag. This was the first time I met Aaron. This trip sold me on Kayaking. Still haven't bought my own boat, but it's on the bucket list. This was along the Black Water River in FL.

This was my first trip with my friend Kirk, also known as Bammacker on hammockforums.net. Kirk did most of the planning for this one. He has a friend at Mountain High outfitters who recommended this particular loop. Kirk said he had been hearing the guy recommend this loop for over a year and finally decided to take the plunge. This was the absolute COLDEST trip I've ever been on as well as the most elevation I've ever climbed in a day, and the highest elevation I've ever hiked to. We left out from Birmingham around 3:30pm on Thursday and undertook the 5.5 hour trip to the Big East Fork Trailhead in Pisgah National Forest, our starting point. We arrived around 9:30 pm or so our time, 10:30 pm EST, geared up, and headed up the trail. I didn't take any pictures that night from the dark - but on the way out I snapped a few of what we saw pulling up. These were in the daylight: I'm not sure how long we hiked the first night. It was for sure not more than an hour o