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 …
Category: Thru-Hiking
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 …
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 …
springer mountain, here we come!
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, …
plans for 2017
After reaching the Canadian border on day 151 of our Pacific Crest Trail hike, we continued on 7 miles to Manning Provincial Park. We got there just in time for a celebratory dinner, and decided to stay two nights to …
Oh, Canada!: days 148-151
Day 148: Stehekin Ranger Station to PCT mile 2591.1, 21.7 miles Day 149: PCT mile 2591.1 to 2613.8, 22.7 miles Day 150: PCT mile 2613.8 to 2635.3, 21.5 miles Day 151: PCT mile 2635.3 to Manning Park (Canada!!!), 23.5 miles …