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Day 144: What? Another Easy One?
The thrill of hiking in the woods is back. As I sped along a soft, well-graded trail at over two miles per hour, past moss-blanketed terrain, bear-scratched trees, and fragrant...
Cool Temps and Clear Skies
A Change in Weather Overnight, it seems the daytime temperatures changed from 90 plus degrees to the mid-70s. This change makes all the difference in the world as far as...
Entering the Matane Reserve in Quebec
ECT Day 193&194 IAT Day 24&25 Day 193: 21 miles This morning I woke up around 5:30am in the hotel room. My body was feeling a lot better but I...
Day 143: An Easy One
The trail still had its share of ladders, rotting plank walks, mud pits, and alpine bogs, and of course there were no switchbacks, but it was definitely more walkable than...
Day 153 – Working For The Weekend
A biting wind kicked up around 7AM. It was like a swift kick in the pants to get up and start hiking. It was as if the wind was Rob...
Day 152 – Holy Moly
What a turn of events. One day I’m wallowing in self-pity, the next I’m leaping tall mountains in several trek pole aided bounds. All after sleeping terribly, go figure. I...
More Great Hiking in VA
It's A Big State The Appalachian Trail travels through 14 states, but Virginia makes up 25% of the trail. I haven't been putting in nearly the number of miles that...
Day 142: The Mahoosic Notch
The Mahoosic Notch is a 0.8-mile jumble of car-sized boulders that fill the bottom of a narrow steep ravine. The trail winds over, under, around, and through these boulders. The...
The White Mountains Is Where Crying Is Required
I wrote this a week behind and with one very tired braincell. The laws of reality, grammar, and human speech are dead to me after walking almost the entirety of...
International Appalachian Trail Family
ECT Day 189&190 IAT Day 20&21 Day 189: 24 miles This morning I woke up around 5am and then rolled over for a few more minutes. Then we all began...