These pictures are from my sunrise hike on Currahee Mountain. The rest are just in the order in which I took them.
This is the famous trail from the training episodes of the Band of Brothers miniseries that followed Easy Company in World War II. Currahee was the training camp for the 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment (aka the “Five-oh-Sinks” after Col. Bob Sink) and its exploits through Europe in the latter days of WWII. I daresay the history buff will get more out of this hike than the hiking aficionado will. The ascent is fairly boring and uneventful. Depending on when you go, you may have to step to the shoulder to allow vehicles to pass.
This makes my third or fourth trip to the top and back and I’ve yet to get it to work out to at least three miles one way. Either it was an estimate back in the ‘40s or the route has changed slightly in the last ~8 decades.
Afterward, I had a quintessentially southern breakfast of eggs, sausage, a biscuit, sawmill gravy, and grits along with a mocha for good measure at Currahee Station where the staff was pleasant and the food was even better. You have to be careful with food like that. It tastes good and it sticks to you for a long time.
We few, we happy few, we band of brothers. For he today that sheds his blood with me, shall be my brother.
—William Shakespeare
