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Fontana Dam-Hot Springs, NC: Running out of food is traumatizing
Total mileage: 274 Daily: usually around 15 I don't know if we're going slow or not. I feel like a lot of people around us started a week or so...
Shake Those Pre-Trail Jitters and Get Out Here!!
A week before I left for The Trail, I couldn't get my heart to slow down for anything as I was so busy wrapping up my previous life and mentally...
That Four Letter Word Every Thru Hiker Loves, Snow! Oops, I Mean Zero
3/27/2015-The rumor mill of the trail was ablaze all day that the temps were going to be below freezing Friday night. We had been listening to trail rumors for a...
10 Ways a Thru-Hike is Like Having a Baby
I'm working on a draft of my first few days on the trail, but in the meantime, I've composed a list of all the ways hiking is like having a...
Appalachian Trail Bloggers Highlights from the Trail: Week of 3/28
Its almost April and the Northbound thru hiker season is already in full swing. With over 100 Appalachian Trials Bloggers already signed up, there are a lot of awesome hikers to keep up...
Neels Gap to Dicks Creek Gap
8 days in, 70 miles down. Day 5: Left out of Blood Mountain shelter, feeling good. I got a shower and a nice night of sleeping in a warm bed....
Day 1-4: From Thru to Through and Back Again
Day 1: Amicalola Lodge to Springer Mountain ShelterWe woke early after our second night at Amicalola Lodge to a foggy rainy morning and a lot of nervous energy. We showered,...
Coco and Earl — Days 14 through 20 — Scotch, an Oatmeal Pie, and a Shelter
Our third week on the AT! Yay for us. Since the last post, Earl and I have hiked 58.1 miles taking us to our current distance of 165.9. Feel free...
Bear Wrist—I mean, Gear List. Damn you, AutoCorrect!
Mike here! There are many reasons to post your worldly possessions on the internet. This is so that my Mom knows I have everything I need to survive six months...
An Inauspicious Start
So...I have made it to Hiawassee, GA, which means that I have made it down 69.6 miles of the Appalachian Trail! Yay! However, as my father pointed out when I...