FKT: Seth King - Benton MacKaye Trail (GA, TN, NC) - 2023-01-12

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Full BMT
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No
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Male
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Unsupported
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Total time
7d 11h 15m 0s
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I started with a full 7.5 days of food that I could have stretched to 8-8.5 if need be. I honestly completely forgot to weigh my total pack weight before hand. My base weight was somewhere just under or at 10 pounds. I was planning to average at least 36 miles per day. I ended up taking an on trail zero at a rock overhang campsite (mile 113.5 nobo) on Sunday because of all day cold rain. I only collected water from natural sources on trail with the exception of the spicket at the Fontana Dam shelter. I noticed slightly less mileage on my Garmin Instinct 2 watch everyday compared to FarOut. I think FarOut needs a rewrite of that particular route; there were some funky areas where being on trail obviously was not exactly in alignment with FarOut. There was a trail closure right before Fontana Dam (mile 192 nobo) that I roadwalked NC 28N parallel to and rejoined at the other end of the closure (mile 194.4 nobo). I attached a picture of that documentation. They recommended a shuttle but obviously that would ruin an unsupported effort.