Trail Name: Kinnickinic
Start Date: March 18, 2010
Direction (plan): Probably Cool Breeze with a few tweaks
Approach Trail: Naw
My start date has been firmed up. I'll drive down on to Amicalola Falls State Park on the 17th, dropping "mail" drops along the way, then spending the night luxuriating at the Lodge after parking my car for the long term at the parking lot across from the vistors' center. Shower, eat breakfast, and catch a shuttle to Stamp Gap the morning of March18. Then off! (Hopefully blessed with nice weather.)
The Cool Breeze with tweaks is the plan, but all is on a "we'll see" basis until it happens. The tweaks are (1) hiking NOBO until Earth Day, when I'll begin a drive or flight to probably Williamstown, Massachusetts, (2) then hike SOBO until about the last week of June, (3) drive/fly to Willamstown again and begin NOBO to Katahdin. After Katahdin, return to where I left the trail before second visit to Williamstown and begin trek SOBO back to where I was on Earth Day.
Why all this? To stay within a decent temperature range most of the time and to avoid the vectors as much as possible. Yeah, and to probably meet all of you somewhere along the way.--Kinnickinic