Day 15 – Hips don’t lie
As it always is nearly everywhere in the US, it was a cold morning. I moved quickly and had everything packed and was moving. Just like...
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Day 14 – town syndrome
Once again I could not realize the full potential of a bed in the Laughing Heart Hostel. So after laying there all morning I finally made...
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Day 13 – 33 miles
It wasn’t necessarily a good night sleep in the Standing Bear Hostel. But I was protected by Sylvester the cat who was protecting me from...
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Day 12 – Snowless in Tennessee
Let me start with saying my wishful thinking that it would not freeze last night was misguided and caused me multiple problems in not...
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Day 11 – lots of rain
The good news is that the temperature finally warmed up. It might not even get to freezing tonight. The bad news is the strongest wind...
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Day 10 – deep freeze
Things I didn’t see today: the sun, people, wildlife, the trail. What I did see was snow and a very thick cloud that hung overhead all...
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Day 9 – the Smokeys
Imagine it snows over a foot in the last few days and the conditions would be perfect for skiing. You drive up to the mountain but...
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Day 8 – the little things
It’s never a good sign when you pick up your wet socks from the previous day and they are rock hard. So frozen you could use them as a...
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Day 7 – Exhaustion
I will keep this one relatively short as I am very exhausted. I trudged through anywhere from 6-10 inches of snow all morning, and it...
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Day 6 – deeper snow
I woke up with a thin sheet of ice covering my sleeping bag. I would later learn the overnight temperature was around 0. I put on...
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Day 5 – snow
I woke up with my new four fellow hiking friends covered in snow. Our shelter with a makeshift tarp had failed on the edges and since I...
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Day 4 – North Carolina
I woke up in the cold and was on the trail by 8. Everyday the temperature has seemed to drop even more. The projection is single digits...
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Day 3 – it’s getting colder
The morning was cold, windy and uninviting. I made the mistake of not checking my maps before going to bed and the two towns I was...
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The start of something new
Today I begin my trip out into the great unknown. As I sit in the Portland airport for the first of two flights, I am just hoping that my...
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What is thru hiking?
The term seems to have found its way in to common lingo between the popularization from the book and movie “Wild” about thru-hiking the...
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