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Hi Moldy, You are correct. We do ask for personal contact information so that we can follow-up with participants following their thru-hike to complete the post-survey. I assure you that all...

Hello Whiteblaze community! I first want to thank the entire community for everything that I learned here in preparing for my 2016 thru hike. It was an amazing experience and I envy those of...

FYI: We will have a booth at the Flip Flop Festival! Please consider stopping by and completing our survey! You will be entered into a raffle for REI gift cards for your participation. Happy Trails!!

I appreciate the offer, but our methodology requires that hikers complete a pre-hike survey and then a post-hike survey. Hope you had a great journey!

Hi Traveler,
I am a clinical psychologist and my colleague is a cognitive psychologist. Naturally, we are interested in studying human behavior. If you click on the link, you can read a brief...

Thanks llittle_llama! Yes, this is our second year of data collection to increase the sample size. Thank you for participating! Bones

Time and resources mainly. We are located just off the AT in Virginia and hope to collect pre-hike surveys in-person in Harpers Ferry during the flip-flop kick-off, so there is a convenience factor...

Another great point! We do hope to expand our research to the other trails in the future!

Great point! We hope to do just that, but attrition in longitudinal research is a real issue and difficult to overcome. At the very least, we do hope to add another measurement at around 6 months...

Hello Whiteblaze community! I first want to thank the entire community for everything that I learned here in preparing for my 2016 thru hike. It was an amazing experience and I envy those of you...

Thank you to all those that have completed the survey!! We truly appreciate it and realize that folks are often asked to complete some type of survey these days. We currently have 68 responses, but...

Hi Traveler - I can only speak to my profession and experience, but in professional journals within the field of psychology, getting a study published is very challenging. Most of our journals have...

Excellent points Kookork! I agree that looking at the different long trails would be beneficial and interesting. A lot of other research questions could be addressed as well. Thanks for the input and...

Great point! We limited to the AT mainly due to changing methodology over the course of designing the study. At first, we thought we may be able to have research assistants actually located at...

Hello Whiteblaze community! I first want to thank the entire community for everything that I have learned in preparing for my 2016 thru hike. February 18th is almost here and I'm extremely excited to...

I emailed Awol the same question. He told me early January. Also of note, there will be a pre-order discount sometime in November :)
Rodney

Hi all,

Hoping to get some new ideas for an occasional no cook dinner. I plan to carry a stove, but know that every now and then I may pull up at a campsite with no interest in cooking dinner...

Thank you all for the input and humor!
Rodney

Thanks for the input Coffee! Do you mind if I ask how long you gave the aqua mira to work in cold temps?
Thanks - Rodney

Hi all,

Planning on starting my thru attempt mid-late February and hoping to enlist the wisdom of the group in terms of water treatment options. I have read everything I can, but I am still up...

I personally have never had a problem over maybe 20 trips to Dolly Sods, nor have I heard of any vandalism. Of course, that doesn't mean it won't happen. I don't know of any shuttles in area. Great...

Hi All!
No trail name yet - Rodney for now.
Direction: NOBO
Estimated Start Date: Mid - Late February
Approach Trail - I think so

Looking forward to meeting folks!