Night 1: Walls of Jericho, AL
Night 2: Big South Fork, KY
Night 3-5: Canyonlands, UT
Night 6: Savage Gulf, TN
Night 7: DeSoto State Park, AL
Night 8: Big Frog Wilderness, TN
Night 9: Cheaha Wilderness, AL
Night 10: Dugger Mountain Wilderness, AL
Night 11: Big South Fork, KY
Night 12: Cohutta Wilderness, GA
Did the "Penitentiary Branch Loop", combining the Hemp Top Trail, Benton MacKaye Trail, Penitentiary Branch Trail, and Jacks River Trail in GA's Cohutta Wilderness.
I did not leave the loop to hike up to Jacks River Falls, assuming that's where any people or trash would be.
Even with a 4hr drive after work yesterday morning, at only ~13.5 miles, this could easily have turned into a dayhike.
Well, that's what happened to my last couple of planned bag nights, so I intentionally killed some time before leaving to make sure that wasn't an option!
Worked out great, as I still got to do 22 river crossings(most were just under knee deep, only one got up to my thighs), AND it put me camping where I had my first ever bear "encounter" while backpacking. Joker ran partway up the ridge by my campsite when I went for my phone, so the video I have of him watching me is zoomed in from >50yds, and looks like one of those grainy Bigfoot videos...
Glorious hike, and I thought every single crossing was beautiful. Unseasonably cool, and two guys at a campsite were the only people I saw. No gnats, no mosquitoes, 1 tick, and a bear sighting. More than I could ever think to ask of a June hike in the South!