New mileage for the AT

[map man]

In 2015 I was told that Bob Peoples and his crew were responsible for half of the mileage increase since 2000.

Those switchbacks really add up!

Great minds must think alike -- I was editing my original post with the information about the Tennessee Eastman Hiking Club just as you were posting this!

[illabelle]

I'll be glad when it finally reaches 2200, so I can stop telling people it's "almost" or "nearly" 2200 miles long.

[steve_zavocki]

I adjusted my spreadsheet based on the new milage in Guthooks and gained 0.4 to my total without leaving Florida.

From what I can tell: Georgia is now 0.3 shorter, coming in at 77.9. 0.2 of the loss was between Woody and Neels.

The distance between Stocoah and the NOC has increased by 0.5 since I hiked it.

There also seems to be 0.1 added somewhere between Standing Bear and Hot Springs.

Some changes appear to be adjusting the milage of a shelter location. There is no net change, but if you stayed there then your daily milage adjusts for both days but overall nothing changes.

I have only done 20% so far, so there are other changes along the way to account for the extra mile this year.

[JEgestad]

2190.9 + the 8.8 of the Approach, so close now for the 2200

[show me the monkey]

2190.9 + the 8.8 of the Approach, so close now for the 2200

True, but blue blaze trails are not included in the total mileage. If they were, the total mileage would easily be over 2300.

[FlyPaper]

Not sure how the formatting will look, but these are the changes from 2017 to 2018. I suspect that some of these are corrections and not re-routes.

-0.1	USFS42/80-Cooper Gap, GA to Gooch Mountain Shelter, GA	Old 3.6, New 3.5
-0.2	Gooch Mountain Shelter, GA to GA60-Woody Gap, GA	Old 5, New 4.8
0.2	US19-Nantahala River, NC to Sassafras Gap Shelter, NC	Old 6.9, New 7.1
0.4	Fontana Dam, NC to Mollies Ridge Shelter, TN	Old 10.6, New 11
0.1	Russell Field Shelter, TN to Spence Field Shelter Side Trail, NC	Old 2.8, New 2.9
0.1	Double Spring Gap Shelter, TN to Clingmans Dome, TN	Old 2.7, New 2.8
-0.6	Clingmans Dome, TN to Mount Collins Shelter Side Trail, TN	Old 3.4, New 2.8
0.6	Mount Collins Shelter Side Trail, TN to US441-Newfound Gap, TN	Old 4.3, New 4.9
0.1	US441-Newfound Gap, TN to Icewater Spring Shelter, NC	Old 3, New 3.1
0.1	Icewater Spring Shelter, NC to Pecks Corner Shelter Side Trail, NC	Old 7.3, New 7.4
0.4	Pecks Corner Shelter Side Trail, NC to Tri-Corner Knob Shelter, NC	Old 4.8, New 5.2
-0.2	Cosby Knob Shelter, NC to Davenport Gap Shelter, TN	Old 7.1, New 6.9
0.2	Davenport Gap Shelter, TN to TN32-Davenport Gap, TN	Old 0.9, New 1.1
-0.2	Vandeventer Shelter, TN to Iron Mountain Shelter, TN	Old 6.8, New 6.6
0.2	Iron Mountain Shelter, TN to TN91, TN	Old 4.6, New 4.8
-0.1	ATC Side Trail, WV to Maryland-West Virginia Line	Old 0.7, New 0.6
0.1	Maryland-West Virginia Line to Weverton RD, MD	Old 3.3, New 3.4

[imscotty]

I can't help with where the specific trail changes were each year, but here is a list of what the official mileage was for each year this century:


So on average the trail has been increasing in official length by about 1.3 miles per year this century. .

The Big Bang Theory must be true then.... Space is expanding.