We’ve spent the last week getting ready for the Appalachian Trail. It feels a little strange to be “getting ready,” for the trail, because sometimes I wonder what that really constitutes? You can have all the gear in the world, …
Category: AT
a good start: days 1-2
Day 1: Amicalola Falls Lodge to Cooper Gap, 21.5 (12.3 AT miles) Day 2: Cooper Gap to Slaughter Creek Tentsite, 16 miles miles We took a day and a half to drive down to Gainesville, Georgia. Along the way we …
following the white blaze: day 3-4
Day 3: Slaughter Creek Campsite to Chattahoochee Gap, 19.6 miles Day 4: Chattahoochee Gap to a vista on Powell Mountain, 18.9 miles We survived the thunderstorms that raged overnight, keeping relatively dry. It was the heaviest most sustained rain I’ve …
into North Carolina: days 5-7
Day 5: Mile 66.8 to Standing Indian Mountain, 20.7 miles Day 6: Standing Indian Mountain to US 64, 22 miles Day 7: zero day in Franklin, NC Total AT miles hiked: 109.5 The wind kept waking me up throughout the …
mountains for days: days 8-9
Day 8: Winding Stair Gap to Wesser Bald, 20.8 miles Day 9: Wesser Bald to Locust Cove Gap, 17.1 miles Total AT miles hiked: 147.4 We took BJ up on her offer to drive us back to the trailhead from …
AT high point: days 10-12
Day 10: Locust Cove Gap to Fontana Dam, 17 miles Day 11: Fontana Dam to Spence Field Shelter, 18.5 miles Day 12: Spence Field Shelter to Mt. Collins Shelter, 19.6 miles Total AT miles hiked: 202.8 We slept comfortably in …
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