Trail Update
Balance
Finding the balance between sight-seeing and making trail miles. Managing the disparate needs on trail All of life is about balance. Trail life is no different, even though the things...
Day 34: Wet Clothes and Mice Track Meets
Mice Track Meet The FarOut comments were right. The mice are active. Very active. They didn’t even wait until sundown to start speeding inside the walls and along the roof....
Day 10 – Who’s Gonna Make It?
Day 10 Start: Poplar Stamp Gap End: Unicoi Gap Miles Hiked: 8.5 Total Miles on AT: 52.7 We won the award for last campers at the campsite again. Our...
The Beginning of Something Big
I started hiking! WE started hiking! Nikki is joining me for the first week at least, maybe first two weeks, well heck maybe the whole thing. Plans are still being...
HYOH, Franklin, and the NOC
AT day 20 Town day, Franklin NC Started the day by getting picked up for free breakfast. Then had to do laundry and resupply. Laundry means washing allllll the...
Days 7-9 on the Appalachian Trail
In which we entertain the notion of taking a break.
After a Zero, back to the hills!
Day 44 Hot Springs to Rich Mountain Camp 8.3 miles - AT mile 283.6 Card of the day - XII The Hanged Man Day 43 was a full zero in...
Day 9 – The Sun is the Silver Lining
Day 9 Start: Baggs Creek Gap End: Poplar Stamp Gap Miles Hiked: 8.7 Total Miles on AT: 44.2 This morning, wind blew through camp well before sunrise and continued...
Into Hot Springs
Day 42 Walnut Mountain Shelter to Hot Springs 13.1 miles - AT mile 275.2 Card of the day - The Tower Today we go to town, and I for one...
100 Miles!!!
AT day 19 Carter Creek Gap to Franklin, NC Woke up at 5 am in my tent at Carter Creek Gap. It was cold, 30s, but I had to pee....