No food!
I was able to find a place to sleep at he Ross Lake Resort. It is a nice place, rustic, a little musty and smack dab on the lake created when the Ross Dam was completed in the late 1940’s. To my liking there are no roads leading to the resort. Access is by boat. But first there is a very rugged trail to negotiate through the woods, lots of steep hills. If you make it to the lake front there is a telephone. A boat from the resort arrives minutes later.
“I am famished”, I told Will the super guide at the resort. “OH, we don’t have food here”, he said. Noticing my distress he added “Maybe I can find something in my own refrigerator” I had some emergency food for the long walk through the woods I was planning. Freeze dried macaroni, instant noodles and a few raisins kept me happily going.
Moral of the story: Even if you book a reservation at a place calling itself a “resort” bring some spare food, or starve!