Hope everyone had a great three day weekend. We decided on Saturday to wake up and try to finish the trail we started last time. We took the Slave Cemetery Trail. This trail is not long but understand we are all out of shape and fat. I don't believe in lying so there it is. We had a single goal to make it to the Cemetery and we did. We completed that part of it. We then followed the rest of the trail around back over to the Civil War reenactment and watched it for a while. We actually didn't stay for the complete reenactment but we got to see the cannons fire.
We have now decided we enjoy hiking. When I say "we" I mean "me", not everyone is on board but I think we are off to a good start. Being we are new I'm asking for your help. We are going to start off easy with some Oak Mountain Trails. Going to also being doing only single day hikes. I hope one day to do a multi day hike, but first I have to figure out how to explain to my girls that means peeing in the woods, and how my daughter can charge her Mp3 player. So here is the list of what I think we need, remember there are 5 of us including our dog.
- Water Containers - 140 oz (recommended for 4 hours of hiking for 5 people)
- Back Packs (We need 5, what do you recommend?)
- Tents (We think 5 individual tents)
- Water Treatment (We ran out of water last trip, not good)
- Cooking Gear (Same with tents will be needing eventually)
- Sleeping Bags
- Alcohol Stove
If you can recommend anything else please let me know, leave a comment. We are new so any advise is good advise. I also need a good "Trail Mix Recipe". If you have one please let me know.
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