Got up and looked around the campsite in the light. It was up on a knob. I looked at the guide and realized we were at the site of a shelter that had been removed. Rocky Knob Shelter.

Rocky Knob Shelter Site

The only thing left of the shelter was the old fire pit.

Rocky Knob Shelter Fire Pit

Everyone was still beat and the food was getting low. So Gig and I decided to go to Enota Mountain Retreat to see if they had a store where we could buy some food.

We hiked 0.7 Miles back to Red Clay Gap and found the trail to the retreat. We hiked another 1.4 miles down the steepest trail we had seen so far. But we made it.

I could tell right away that the retreat was way above our price range for a stay and I thanked God we hadn’t found the trail the night before.

Gig and I walked into the main building and looked at what they offered; which wasn’t much. But they had cold cokes and candy. The owner told us that they had a hiker working for his stay and I realized he was Bohemian Gypsy Nighthiker.

As we walked to see Bohemian, Gig and I opened our candy bars and tried to eat them. My whatchamacallit had a very strange taste and Gig’s Mr. Goodbar was Green (yes it was green). They had to have been there for years. But we were hungry, so, we ate them…

We talked with Bohemian and headed back to the store. Bought some heavily overpriced and outdated food and headed back to our campsite. (The raisins we bought were a dollar for a small box and two years out of date…)

Gig and I hiked back to the campsite with a surprise. Tinkerbell had asked Tipawa for some smores, but I said we were backpacking not camping and you don’t bring smores backpacking. Tipawa told Tinkerbell that if she wanted me to do something the best way to get me to do it was pray and ask God to make me do it. So Tinkerbell prayed for some smores. The only fresh food at Enota happened to be smores and I bought them and carried them back to camp.

When Tipawa and Tinkerbell saw them they prayed and thanked God for answering Tinkerbell’s prayer.

We ate Mac and cheese, smores, and washed it down with soda. It ended up being a great night…