I don’t believe it, but I can hear it, so it must be true 🙂 The ATV/Side-by-Side convoy has stopped on a Forest Road along a ridge to the west of me — probably Smith Mill Hollow Road. Engines, loud voices, and music are wafting over the air.

I’m hoping they don’t decide to drive along the disused roads that run along Smith Mill Hollow. There’s an unmarked Forest Road twenty yards from where I’m camped!

For the first time ever, I’ve seen water flowing in the creek in Smith Mill Hollow, and the spring below my campsite has water, too. So much for carrying all that water from Brazil Creek for the last few hours.

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