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We often talked about doing a midnight/full moon run on the Chattooga. I've done several on the Uppper Gauley and most of the rivers in the south besides the Occooe. We've just never got around to...

Thanks alot Shades of Gray and Map Man!!!! So I've decided to either start at Springer and hike to Harpers Ferry or just the opposite for our first leg. When I find out if I will be going back to the...

boatingbeta.com is also a good sight to go to.

I've ran section 4 of the chattooga in a raft from 1.6 to up to 5 feet (almost died at crack in the rock) not commercially but on fun trips or insane...

Okay so being a whitewater raft guide and a mountain bike nut I have a few suggestions for you...
Your first oppurtunity to go rafting will be at the NOC on the Nantahalla River in N.C. You can...

Not a bad idea...actually that was my first plan but I have family in Atlanta so I was hoping to end at Springer so I could get a ride to the Airport in Atlanta. But I may consider this option. What...

Yea my son isn't your typical kid...we live in a ski resort town that recieves about 500 inches of snow a year and my son'c profession is snowboarding. Plus we do some winter backpacking here in the...

Let's say you had 5 months to hike the A.T but you could only do it in the months of April, May and half of June. Then you had to work from mid June to September. But you were able to finish up your...

What a stupid question...:mad:

Check for flights into Reno, NV and if they are in your price range come out here and get a shuttle to Mammoth Lakes,CA and hike the JMT from Reds Meadow to Happy Isle in Yosemite. That trip is 58...

Plan has changed we are now shooting for the middle of April...it will probably change again to the first of April if I have it my way. But we can't go any earlier than the first of April. Tyler has...

Not sure how long till I hike the A.T (April 2007) but my family and I only have 24 more days till we are on the JMT. As soon as we are off the JMT I will start my planning for my "Dream Trip" the...

yup just another good reason to not sleep in shelters...

the one bitch slapping the person that I catch leaving their trash at or around the shelter...

Backpacking for more than a few days is more mental than physical. Something that you will figure out when you are out their for a while.

I agree with you about trying to get more people to love the outdoors and to support the outdoors...but why make backpacking easy for new comers? If it's easy for them then it will be just as easy...

now that's what I'm talkin' about...:sun

a calling card works the best

tear em all down and trust me after most so called backpackers spend a few days hiking in rain and setting up their own shelter in the rain they will never ever even think about backpacking again...

oh dear god...

If I shoot em I'll skin em and we can all eat em. JK I guess we shouldn't shot them on the spot but there has to be something that we can do hmm...

Today's society is full of lazy, inconsiderate, selfish a**holes!!! That's why the trails are littered. Most people think that the world owes them something for some reason. So that's how they...

I ordered two today...one for my wife and one for my two kids. I just hope we get them before the end of July cause we are hiking the JMT the first of August.

When I first started backpacking I was young. I've done a number of 2-3 week hikes on the A.T. and when I first started backpacking I wanted as much solitude as possible. So most of my vacation time...

I will be hiking with my son who at the time will have just turned 14 so we will be together the whole trip.

I'm going to use the Rainbow 2 Tarp Tent (2.5 lbs)
I'm still not sure which stove I...

shooting for the 23rd or 24th of april heading NOBO with my son. we are flying out after his 14th birthday which is on the 21st of april.

we plan on starting out doing 13-17 miles per day.