[mapsmarker marker=”37″] Day: 39 Trail Miles: 199.1 Rain. Snow. Pain. Slow. That kind of sums up the last few days. I finally entered the “dreaded” Smoky Mountains. Why dreaded. Well first there is the whole bureaucracy involved with getting through the park. Can’t even escape The Man in the woods. Add to that every previous […]
[mapsmarker marker=”38″] Day: 31 Trail miles: 150.7 The more I embrace this adventure, the more I truly understand why I am here. Some are devoted to ensuring they walk along every inch of the trail so they can say they truly walked the WHOLE trail. The purists want to do it in proper order too. […]
[mapsmarker marker=”39″] Before I actually set foot on the trail, I envisioned a certain level of daily progress, which would improve quickly as I continued along the trail. I was quickly disabused of such silly ideas. I forgot to take a few things into account: reality; the fact that these are mountains; the fact that […]
[mapsmarker marker=”41″] Day: 23 Trail miles: 124.4 Part of the right of passage, or maybe a true induction into the Appalachian Trail Community, involves adopting a Trail Name. These names come about in many different ways though all will be influenced by the trail itself. Some choose their own name, some will have it chosen […]
[mapsmarker marker=”42″] Posted day 20 from Franklin, NC Trail Miles: 106.1
[mapsmarker marker=”43″] Day: 16 (ish) Trail miles: 86.3 These tidbits apply to any situation where there is a heartbeat: Most importantly … hike your own hike!! One step at a time. Don’t look too far forward. It can provide hope, but might cause despair as well. Be aware of where you are. Take the time […]
[mapsmarker marker=”45″] Day: 8-10 Weather: sunny and hot, threatening thunder showers, sunny and hot Trail miles:: 52.9 Refreshed, resupplied, repacked, and recharged from our hostel stay, we had a good day’s hike. Pleasant weather, beautiful scenery, brought us most of the way to our next campsite. The last bit of the trail was obviously put […]
Today is the last day of “civilization”. Maytag and I are making sure we have every thing we need, and and making sure our bags are packed well. It means absolutly NOTHING that bags have been packed and repacked several thousand times at this point. Though it does explain why a guy who doesn’t play […]
[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/12″][/vc_column][vc_column width=”10/12″][vc_custom_heading source=”post_title” font_container=”tag:h2|text_align:center” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_empty_space][vc_column_text]It has been my experience that any idea that is truly beneficial to the many instead of the few will ultimately resurface multiple times, from multiple sources. The challenge for implementing these ideas often becomes not the value of the idea, but the lack of resources to make it happen […]
Two weeks from this moment, I will be sitting in a Jetblue airplane, practicing my starvation skills as I very slowly munch on the five peanuts provided by the airline, as the plane begins its decent into Charlotte Douglass International Airport. I will no doubt be wondering if my well packed backpack will indeed be […]
