The Badger and his adventure crews live for the wild, off-the-beaten-path treks in the Southern Appalachians—the steeper, wetter, and more obscure, the better. In late May 2017, Rock Sprite Kitty Myers and I joined a strong crew for what was billed as a one-day descent of Thee Creek, a rarely visited waterway plunging down the eastern slopes of North Carolina’s Black Mountains. As any experienced ‘Schwacker’ knows, Mother Nature rarely sticks to…
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