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Day 8: Goodbye Georgia, hello Nor.. Bears? Again?!
We woke up from our bunks at the Around the Bend hostel. My pinky toes still are a bit of a problem. But, we had our breakfast and we were
Day 7: Visiting Hiawassee
We slept like a log in our bunk beds. At 7 am breakfast was served: unlimited pancakes, scrambled eggs, hash browns and sausages. That’s a good start
Day 6: A push into Dick’s Creek Gap
Before I started hiking and was reading these kinds of blogs – just like you are right now – I didn’t understand why hikers stayed in hostels that
Day 5: Trashed plans for Rock Mountain
No bears tonight! I actually had a decent enough sleep. The rain hasn’t stopped though. It’s hard to get out of my tent, even harder to put on wet
Day 4: a day of drought and rain
Thanks to our bear friends, we didn’t get a lot of sleep last night. But, we weren’t feeling like sticking around here for much longer. So let’s
Day 3: Bear trouble past Neel Gap
I’m not trying to write an adventure novel with this blog, but today ended a bit more intensely than I would’ve liked. But before a day ends, it
Day 2: Going above the clouds!
We had a great night’s sleep in our tent! Better than the shelter sleepers today. One of them found a family of around 15 mice in the shelter. Yuck!
Day 1: Making early adjustments
At 6:30 am I woke up on the picnic table. Never thought I would say that sentence in my life, but here we are. I was first greeted by a British girl
Day 0: Approaching Springer Mountain
We have started the approach trail! Before we could even start, we had already met a fellow thru-hiker at the REI in Sandy Springs, north of Atlanta.
Blame the Algorithm – I’m Hiking the AT
How does a 28-year old Dutchman get it into his head to hike the AT? All that was needed was a little luck, a score to settle with myself and some good company.
