Franklin prepares for AT hiking season

  • Photo/Bob Scott Hikers loading up the shuttle to take them from the Hilltop Inn to Winding Stair Gap. 
    Photo/Bob Scott Hikers loading up the shuttle to take them from the Hilltop Inn to Winding Stair Gap. 
As you read this, someone is at Springer Mountain in Georgia, with a pack full of food, clothes, sleeping bags, thermos and carrying a whole lot of optimism. Roughly 10-14 days from now, that hiker…

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