The Shelter at Double Springs Gap

About the Book

The Shelter at Double Springs Gap is the very strange yet true story of how the author lost his best friend but found his wife. In 1984, a snap decision resulted in the death of the author’s best friend and backpacking partner. In 1985, following a year of depression and self-recrimination, the author went on a backpacking vacation alone. During that trip, he experienced a truly bizarre chain of events that resulted in a million to one chance meeting with his one true love at a backcountry shelter on the Appalachian Trail in the Smoky Mountains. Follow the author on a journey from the depths of despair and loneliness to an impossible meeting with the woman with whom he would spend the rest of his life.

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