Race 99% Won’t Finish Takes 60 Hours in Tennessee Mountains
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Squeezed into the cramped “doggie seat” of a Toyota pickup truck as it bounces up a rain-washed Tennessee mountain road, past Brushy Mountain State Penitentiary and out-of-business coal mines, it becomes clear that this will be the most comfortable part of the day.
Gary Cantrell, looking the part of a mountain man with a chest-length gray beard and worn brown leather hat, sits in the passenger seat while his high school friend, Karl Henn, drives through the fog-draped mountain pass. The two men are headed out to stash books under piles of rocks in desolate areas of 24,000-acre Frozen Head State Park.