I still have and use a pair of North Face booties my parents gave me for Christmas in 1976. They're still in great shape.
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I still have and use a pair of North Face booties my parents gave me for Christmas in 1976. They're still in great shape.
My wife and I were just a couple of months into our "big year" - a year off to see as many different species of birds as possible; visit national parks; and backpack every trail that caught our fancy...
I assume that the objection to the continuation of the certificate/2000 miler patch is that some significant portion of the spring hoard would be less inclined to undertake a thru hike if there were...
Big Creek ranger station is just two miles down the road from DG and it has a large hiker parking lot. I've used it multiple times over the years w/o any issues.
I was there in October and the road (last mile up to the gap) was not passable by anything less than high clearance, four wheel drive vehicles. We left a car about a mile down on the west side -...
My best guess is Maggie Valley. Not too bad a hitch from there.
I did Connecticut as a section hike during June several years ago and it was just about perfect.YMMV
That campsite was in good shape when I stayed there two years ago - a scattering of tent platforms and a good water source nearby. We saw a bunch of people hike by during the afternoon (I assume...
There are two in Franklin, NC; one in Bryson City, NC; one in Cherokee, NC; one in Gatlinburg, TN; Erwin, TN has one; Elizabethton, TN has two. That's as far up the trail as I'm familiar with in the...
If you !@#$ in it they will come?
Excellent point but, in a sense, that's the problem w/ most of the backcountry sites along the AT in the Whites - especially summer and fall weekends. I was up at Liberty Springs last summer - got...
I scan some of the entries from trail journals occasionally and I noticed one lady quit because the group of fellow thrus she was hiking with ditched her in Franklin and it hurt her feelings. Plus...
I have two nephews who returned from their tour of duty in Afghanistan and they both told me that the first thing they did was head to the nearest five guys restaurant. So, yeah, they do come home...
Exactly. You want to feed a bunch of folks who could really use it, why not meet a group of returning vets coming home from Afghanistan or your local first responders or the teachers at your kid's...
Same Class (Arachnids) - different Orders. So, first cousins evolutionarily (not a real word) speaking.
Sorry to hear that the RHK shelter is falling on hard times - I stopped in on my first thru in '76 and it was a falling down wreck. Came back with my wife in the early '80's during peak rhododendron...
Also, in addition to the hundreds of prospective thrus, it is also spring break season for many high schools and colleges and there will be scores of these folks as well - then add to that the...
Excellent point. I used to take public school teachers up to the US Holocaust Museum for a week of study. One of the highlights of the week was an address by an Auschwitz survivor named Letti - an...
My own experiences echo yours - I successfully thru hiked in '76 and '80 and finished up a section hike project in 2003 and never left a record with the ATC or anyone else for that matter (nothing...
I'm 60 and have spent my summers guiding rafts on southeastern rivers since the late 70's and the kids we get nowadays are every bit as tough as any we got thirty or forty years ago. They put in 8-10...
I know of one thru hiker for certain killed by an auto - 1976, just north of Monson near a strange little spot called Bodfish Farm - truck hit a hiker that I had spoken with not an hour before the...
In my experience, both as a thru hiker and as someone who has lived close by the AT most of his life, I think the number one thing most aspiring thrus aren't prepared for is the sheer physical...
There's about a month-long window between the middle of May and mid June when its still relatively springlike but the bulk of the thru-hoard is gone and the summer vacation folks haven't arrived yet....
Holy smokes. I keep forgetting that we don't really get winter down here - there's a dusting of snow in the high country of the park this morning and they nearly cancelled school.
Most years, November is my favorite time to hike the AT in Georgia and this year probably more so than ever as we've gotten a very late start on fall foliage and the water situation is fairly good....