On the lovely sunny Fall day, 8 hikers preferred Bill Holman’s shorter hike option of ½ the distance of Barbara’s hike. So Lindsay Brown, John Shannon, Marian Styles, Brian Muszynski, Wanda Hamlin, and Iva Gillet joined Eric Bredo, home for a weekend visit from Canada, on the 5 mile hike option. We enjoyed the descent from Turk Gap through the rustling leaves. At one of our snack breaks, in response to the pre-hike advisory of carrying 2 liters of water, Brian was concerned that he hadn’t brought so much on such a nice day. Eric mentioned that perhaps Gunga Din could bring him some water, prompting a discussion about this Rudyard Kipling poem of a boy who carried water in a goat’s skin. Since none of us were dehydrated, we continued to the Fire Road where we had lunch. Since we were finished lunch at noon, Iva proposed a slightly longer detour to allow for another ½ hour of hiking, so we headed toward Blue Hole and the Sugar Hollow Reservoir as a short out and back. Upon returning to the lunch spot, Bill herded us up the fire road to Jarman’s Gap. Brian was able to sell John Shannon’s handmade wool hat back to him for 2 cents, after finding it and conducting a quick auction. Since we had a quick group of hikers, we returned to Jarman’s Gap by 2 PM and then headed off to our various afternoon and evening activities.
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