I have been thinking a lot about getting back on the AT. Most of my thoughts have been centered around gear changes for the next trip. I wrote about this previously, and with some more research (along with a larger budget and access to incredible deals through work), I have come up with an ambitious goal of eliminating 10 lbs. from the dry weight ( ( Read more... )

So on Tuesday the roommate and I headed up to Amicalola Falls State Park. We got into the park at about 11:00am. We quickly visited the Visitor's Center. I filled up on water and got the pack ready to go out. I left the Visitor's Center at about 11:30am ( Read more... )

This weekend I spent at Hungry Mother State Park, in western Virginia. While there some friends of mine and I went and did an out-and-back dayhike along a section of the AT near Mount Rogers. We saw the famous wild ponies, and had lunch at the Thomas Knob Shelter. It was a short hike, about 6.5 miles total.

The next day we hiked to the top of ( Read more... )

I went back and added some backdated LiveJournal entries about the AT. These were copy-and-pasted from emails I sent out, so if you were receiving emails from me while on the AT you will not find anything new.

All entries tagged as AT.

So one goal of mine is to get back on the Appalachian Trail and through-hike it again. A local outfitter has been having a huge sale, so I have gone in a few times to poke around.

I picked up a book detailing the Benton MacKaye Trail, which runs about 300 miles, roughly parallel to the southernmost part of the AT. The book only covers the first 93 ( Read more... )

I am still trying to figure out what to do with this facial hair.

Pictures from the Trail will be up in the next 48 hours.

I am in Hanover, NH. The NH-VT border is just a couple of miles away ( Read more... )

Woohoo! I made it to New Hampshire ( Read more... )

I am in a hiker hostel in Stratton, Maine. I have about 93 more miles in Maine. Yesterday I passed the line for 2000 miles. It was referring to North-bounders. I wrote in a shelter log that it is a bit disheartening for a southbound hiker like myself - instead of celebrating that I have done 2000 miles (quite an accomplishment), it was reminding me ( Read more... )

So here I am, sitting for my assigned 15 minutes at a computer in the library in Bar Harbor, Maine. You might note that Bar Harbor is not exactly on the Appalachian Trail, and it is not Boston, either ( Read more... )