NOC

Hungry, Angry, Lonely, Tired. Took care of the first one with a hamburger and a couple of eggs carried from Franklin. Not so angry now. Don't have to spend an hour getting set up to sleep and an hour in the morning to pack up again and use frost bitten fingers to light a stove which won't light cos there's no fuel. Very lonely here at NOC though. The only hiker here. Tired - yes. Legs in particular. Spent a lot of today sliding down steep grades covered with two feet of snow. It was great to go uphill for a change. Tomorrow - Stracoah Gap and a pick up from the Hike Inn at Fontana then a slack pack the next day from Stracoah to Fontana. That's the plan anyway.