We started our day with a pretty steep climb from Sassafras shelter up to Cheoah  Bald, gaining around 700 ft of elevation in about a mile. Great unobstructed views from the top (elevation 5062) From there, it was a steep 5 mile descent down to to Cheoah Gap. The loss...

Today we had a shorter hike from cable Gap Shelter down to Fontana  Dam shelter, aka “the Fontana Hilton”. Really just a regular wooden shelter, but a couple hundred meters away, it had a brick building housing bathrooms with flush toilets and a coin operated shower....