[/QUOTE] I should have mentioned I’m in pretty good shape. Not carrying a belly. I know it will take me a week or two to get my trail legs.
Might take a bit longer than that.
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[/QUOTE] I should have mentioned I’m in pretty good shape. Not carrying a belly. I know it will take me a week or two to get my trail legs.
Might take a bit longer than that.
Quote =How often would you guess I’d be able to sleep at shelters by myself or with one other?
I prefer them for the get up and go aspect in the morning.
In my 1999 sobo I didn't have a full...
[QUOTE= If I can’t get KSC site for night after,I’m cool paying up for extra night in town.
A question. How do you plan to get back to town?
One option would be to show up at KSC and if Baxter...
I went SOBO in 1999 at age 55 and if I was going to do it again, which I have thought about, I would go south again. The very idea of arriving at a shelter and finding 25 or more hikers around gives...
Don't know if Lipton Sides are still available or not but I used them almost exclusively on my 1999 sobo. I used Esbit fuel instead of a stove. All I had to do was dump the pasta into the water and...
When are you thinking about starting?
When I did my thru in 1999 I had my 55 birthday on the trail. Although I was by far the oldest around the young hikers accepted me as part of the group. I was going slow and so the younger hikers...
As a SOBO back in 1999 all I heard from the NOBOs was how bad PA was. I wasn't a fast hiker but I managed to average about 15 miles per day. Yes there are rocks but there are also a number of ridge...