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Found this pack and thought it would be wonderful for Tipi's various adventures afoot. Might need one a size higher though.

Enjoy your hike, but with a child you really should camel up with water before you start up Sassafras, down the other side and then up Justus Mtn. Very rugged up and down there that will have you...

Fellow on Trailjournals named AK posted that he went to Ron Haven's Budget Inn in Hiawassee this week and it was closed. Permanently or?

Yep, also how many miles can he get ahead of his daily average while in Mid Atlantic AT states...will be interesting to watch.

One of his websites has him rated #8 long distance runner in the world (If i read it correctly...maybe just USA). Whats the official trail distance this year...around 2,170? If so and he keeps that...

north of Newfound Gap? looks familiar...

If he can get to Rock Gap in 2 days and runs the meat grinders up north without injury, he will make it.

Howd and good luck on your thru...there are definite advantages to your plan of starting in Atkins you seek room in shelters in March. The weather in Ga NC and TN can swing from negative temps to 70...

You will be OK with the Martin as long as it doesnt rain on you, which, as we know...is impossible....

Have to agree here...hiked with a used martin backpacker guitar a few years ago and it succumbed to humidity/rain pretty quickly over just a 1 week period while in GA/NC...and I found that at end of...

+1 here...this is a well-meaning solution in search of a problem...I don't think there's a bear issue on the GA AT except 2 months every year...

I agree with cutting some miles down initially from Springer...after Hawk Mountain shelter you will run into the Sassafrass/Justus Mtn rollercoaster which will kick your behind...but good luck and...

Last year was a dude who had a cello AND amplifier who started at Springer...last I heard he had bailed out near NC line...

Should be nil...too far east and north (as far as damaging winds) for southern VA...

Any news of our intrepid cello lugger? doesn't appear that he's updated his website and his trailjournals page has no entries...

I believe the dude in question is named bass clef...he posted earlier in this thread but his website does not appear to be updated...

Still no recent word on our cello hiker that I can find...anybody know about his progress?

You really can't win here...either err on the side of caution and be labeled a paranoid elitist or do nothing and possibly wind up with another Gary Hilton...

anybody know how bass clef is faring so far w/ the hike and the cello?

When I started this thread I didn't really mean to infer that hiking with a cello was wrong, I'm just amazed at the logistics of carrying something that large (with an amp, no less...) 2100 miles to...

Don't really think a guitar thread qualifies as a cello thread, Tipi...(the fact I just typed cello thread on an AT site is surreal enough).

Mark Trail reports here http://www.trailjournals.com/entry.cfm?ID=341372

about someone carrying a cello AND an electric amp...now I've heard everything!

Backpacker guitars that last about 150...

I second this opinion...walked this stretch 1st week of August couple years ago and walked by laden blueberry bushes for a mile or so just eating as many as I could...tented in the meadow by...

Unless my eyes deceive me it appears that after leaving Oglethorpe the trail follows what is now Monument Rd for a good distance?

Remember that my Dad and I hiked the approach trail and AT to Woody Gap in April 1973 and we saw 1 person in 3 days...notice that I said April...:-) things were a lot quieter on the hiking front...