appalachian trail/benton mackaye trail hiker information north georgia

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Gooood morning all our beautiful friends, fam and followers.. i hope everyone had an awesome night of sleep and if you a...
09/08/2026

Gooood morning all our beautiful friends, fam and followers.. i hope everyone had an awesome night of sleep and if you are a person who works all night or stays up all night and you are now laying down.. "goodnight" .. today is going to be an awesome day. We have a couple of shuttles to take care of today. The first one will be mary meeting a hiker at seasons inn hotel intown blairsville and shuttling the hiker to neel gap. we met the hiker at neel gap and shuttled them to springer a few days back and so they were trying to hike back to their car and were not going to make it and needed an emergency extraction from cooper gap and so they thought they could make it to cooper, but got to the base of sassafras and decided that horse gap was better spot for them to bail so we sent the driver to horse to scoop the riders up and shuttle them to their car at byron reece. We had multiple calls roll in and the last shuttle of the evening was a 6:30 pm neel to amica that we passed to j'dan and we called it a day. Today mary will do her blairsville to neel gap and jordan will be going to atlanta airport and scooping a rider coming back mtns. I will man the phones and make sure everyone is happy and keep the work flowing.. biscuit will chill back and soak up the cush life!! Hahaha. K. I hope everyone has a beautiful day.. stay positive and block the negative vibes in life.. negative vibes are lame, boring and exausting. Spread good positive vibes.. one love. Peace and safe travels.. thank you..

Goood morning all our beautiful friends, fam and followers.. it is a beautiful morning here at the base camp ballard.. t...
09/07/2026

Goood morning all our beautiful friends, fam and followers.. it is a beautiful morning here at the base camp ballard.. today will be a slower day with shuttles, but i'm sure we will receive some on demand calls for hikers needing an emergency extraction. Yesterday started with multiple cancellations so we literally had three cancellations and so we planned on cleaning and making gelato and cooking up some food and instead we started to clean and i made caramel for the gelaro base we had prepped which i burnt the first batch of caramel and so i cleaned the mess up and sat back and gave myself a breather and tried again and i was successful on the second try for the caramel.. but while i did that we scheduled multiple rides for the future and took in four other rides that had us working neel gap to springer. Our last ride called in around 5 pm and this was a horse gap to amicalola and the riders were actually scheduled for today, but they were ready to end their hike early so we went ahead and scooped them up and got them back to their car. We sent j'dan on that run while mary and i worked on a scheduling for two hikers flying into atlanta airport where we will meet them and shuttle them to neel gap where they will begin their hike north to deep gap north carolina and several days later we will meet them at neel gap and shuttle them back to atlanta airport. The hikers had contacted us a few days back and wanted some prices and told us they were planning their trip and they needed some time to get it all down on paper so they could plan the pick up and drop off times and so yesterday they were ready to order up and we got them all locked into our schedule and they have verified the schedule is correct and have been informed on how our policy works and agreed to how we operate and so we are ready to scoop them at the end of the month. Today we will be doing a couple shuttles, cleaning, scheduling and just working like we do so if y'all need anything at all.. do not hesitate to reach out. Thanks for the support. We do appreciate you all. One love. Peace

Man.. goooood beautiful sunday morning all our friends, fam and followers.. life is good. Be beautifully kind.. be posit...
08/16/2026

Man.. goooood beautiful sunday morning all our friends, fam and followers.. life is good. Be beautifully kind.. be positive. Spread positive vibes. The trail is a magical place and man if a person comes here to find their soul and they open their eyes and ears and stay quiet i promise they will find themselves and more, but the person has to want to find the change.. k. So yesterday was a long morning. Mary and I had spent the last week protecting our kingdom from theives that want to deprive us of our hard work and money. Hehe.. that is how i see our business and man we have to protect jordan and others that work for us cause that is part of our job and promise to our employees that we will keep money flowing through and work so we can all pay our bills and be outstanding citizens. Mary and I spent the last week planning our strategy to beat the "chargeback kid" so mary and I were absolutely wrecked by exaustion from working triple time and me i do not sleep well when someone is trying to cheat us and i will stay up all night studying our enemy and finding out who they are as a person and what they are about and i will make a game plan with mary and after we try and do what we plan. Aaaaanyways... we had an noc to wayah bald yesterday morning and after mary dropped the riders she came back to georgia and met a man to grab some sourwood honey and we were supposed to get some purple honey, but that did not work out on the purple honey, but we did get some really nice sourwood honey with a really nice smooth taste.. melt in your mouth honey like butter or a smoooth perfect temp. Gelato. The purple was not what we were looking for so we left it behind and i went to a farm in north carolina that has the purple honey and bought two ounces of it for 60 bucks with delivery. From what i have been reading purple honey only happens on nc and they say it is from the kudzu, but i also read that they have done scientific atudies and it may be from the aluminum in the soil reacting with the bee hives, bees, honey. There is more to it so if you are interested in reading about it check it out on google search engine. The package will be here in a few days anf i will post it when it arrives. We are excited to try it out. Super stoked. After mary met the bee man she continued to neel gap where she met our second group and shuttled them to amicalola. We had picked the group up several days back at amicalola and shuttled them to gooch gap where they ended their hike last time they were here. We had assisted the hikers a few years back when they got caught in the dark without headlamps between cooper gap and gooch gap and so j-dan had assist and helped with lighting the way. The couple was back to break off another piece of the trail. So we dropped them a few days back at gooch and they made their way to neel gap where we met them and shuttled them back to their vehicle. Today mary and I will rest and make some gelato for the week and some friends and after mary will head out to meet out riders at noland creek trailhead in the smokys and shuttle them to tapoco lodge in robbinsville, nc. After shae will make her way back to georgia and we will make some food and enjoy some television and downtime. For me i will be manning the phones and doing what needs to be done in the back ground and making sure biscuit holds the chairs down aaand that he does not go without treats or food when he summons us.. hahaha. Man, i'm going to end it here and i want to make sure we thank everyone for supporting mary and i and the team.. we appreciate you all. Be beautiful.. one love. Peace

12/18/2025

good morning from north georgia.. we definitely appreciate the support.. thank you. one love.. peace

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12/16/2025

good morning.. thank you for watching. we do appreciate you. one love.. peace

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12/14/2025

good morning.. thank you for the support. have a beautiful day.. one love. peace

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12/13/2025

good morning from the north georgia mountains.. one love

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12/12/2025

good morning.. thank you for watching.. one love. peace

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12/11/2025

Goood beautiful morning.. mary starts with the weather and water information for the north georgia section of the appalachian trail.. after i read about a camelback mtn rescue. We read from the updated log entry on the site. After we talk about shuttle business.. thank you everyone for supporting mary and i and the team.. we definitely appreciate you. One love. Peace




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