09/07/2026
Goood morning all our beautiful friends, fam and followers.. it is a beautiful morning here at the base camp ballard.. today will be a slower day with shuttles, but i'm sure we will receive some on demand calls for hikers needing an emergency extraction. Yesterday started with multiple cancellations so we literally had three cancellations and so we planned on cleaning and making gelato and cooking up some food and instead we started to clean and i made caramel for the gelaro base we had prepped which i burnt the first batch of caramel and so i cleaned the mess up and sat back and gave myself a breather and tried again and i was successful on the second try for the caramel.. but while i did that we scheduled multiple rides for the future and took in four other rides that had us working neel gap to springer. Our last ride called in around 5 pm and this was a horse gap to amicalola and the riders were actually scheduled for today, but they were ready to end their hike early so we went ahead and scooped them up and got them back to their car. We sent j'dan on that run while mary and i worked on a scheduling for two hikers flying into atlanta airport where we will meet them and shuttle them to neel gap where they will begin their hike north to deep gap north carolina and several days later we will meet them at neel gap and shuttle them back to atlanta airport. The hikers had contacted us a few days back and wanted some prices and told us they were planning their trip and they needed some time to get it all down on paper so they could plan the pick up and drop off times and so yesterday they were ready to order up and we got them all locked into our schedule and they have verified the schedule is correct and have been informed on how our policy works and agreed to how we operate and so we are ready to scoop them at the end of the month. Today we will be doing a couple shuttles, cleaning, scheduling and just working like we do so if y'all need anything at all.. do not hesitate to reach out. Thanks for the support. We do appreciate you all. One love. Peace
