my big plans...

[pele007]

i've had a lot of free time on my hands lately,i've been thinking about hiking most of the time...i have the urge to just go and do the appalachian trail (2000+ miles) and the long trail (275 miles)... both are very big hikes something i've never even attempted before. so i've been trying to make a compromise and i've run it by my parents a few times, both unsuccessfully, so i'm trying to think up a way for them to support me. so my compromise? to hike about 80-100 miles of the long trail from the vermont-massachusetts border to chittenden, very close to the resevoir. from there i'd go the remaining 5 or so miles to sangamon...how much better of an entrance could there be? I'm gonna get out of school in may and graduation is in early june so maybe it could work...i'm thinking it would take anywhere between 8-12 days for me to do it. but i've got to start planning out my hike if i'm gonna persuade my parents to let me do it... they just don't want me to go it alone...

to the drawing board...

~Nigel
aka. The Jackal, that's gonna be my trail name. What do you think? Am I crazy or what?