I was planning on hiking way back in my college days (I'm now 61) Life just sort of 'got in the way' and it never happened. Fast forward 23 + years, and my younger daughter hiked the beginning miles while on spring break in high school. The bug came back . Now, we have just been through a year that can be called nothing but tragic. I did my second (short) section early last fall (GSMNP). I've realized that if I want to do the whole trail, I'll have to mount a serious thru attempt. I may not have ten years of Section Hiking available to me. So I will set off in 2017, and turn 63 on the AT