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May 3, 1983, 41 years ago today: At a spot called Three Forks, four miles from Springer Mountain, the Appalachian Trail crossed a fire road beside the convergence of three streams
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which had become raging torrents. A blinding mass of rain was creating a surreal, semi-aquatic woodland. A hypnotic, monotonous pounding of water against rock and leaf and earth drowned out all other sound to create something like a loud silence.
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At the height of the downpour, a strange, blurry vision coalesced out of the mists and rain: an older backpacking couple hiking with a teenage blind girl being led by a reluctant cat on a leash. Conversation was next to impossible above the din of terrestrial and celestial waters.
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We nodded to each other, and I kept on walking. The rain curtain closed back around me, and I was alone with the falling waters and the forest. Several minutes later, I mumbled to myself, “Well, that was interesting,”
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and retreated into a warm, dry corner of my subconscious as my body continued to trudge the wet, weary miles.

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