Category: Appalachian Trail

I got back home a couple weeks ago. I hiked from GA-MA, getting off the trail just a few miles in to Massachusetts. All told I was on the trail about five and a half months and did a little over 1500 miles. I hope to go back when I get some more time and…

The legends of Rocksylvannia unfortunately proved to be true. The first hundred miles or so wasn’t too bad, but it got progressively worse. The trail began nice, be slowly turned into miles of small pointy rocks, which I am fairly certain must have been dug up and buried point-side-up, and large boulder fields to slowly…

Finally got out of Virginia! It only took about a month and a half, but afterwards West Virginia passed quickly with only 17 miles, then Maryland, and now in Waynesboro, Pennsylvania. Last update was from Waynesboro, VA just before the aquablaze. Hiking the AT is known as Whiteblazing because the trail is marked with white…

Still in Virginia. VA has about 550 miles of the AT, over 25%. I think I will be in Harper’s Ferry, the “psychological halfway point” the first week or so of July. Leaving Daleville was tough, I wanted a longer break, but did not want to stay in the hotel. I got a new sleeping…

Leaving Bastian, Nigel drove us from his Dojo to the local Dairy Queen where we ate breakfast. He was unable to give us a ride back to the trail from there because he had other plans. 5 of us were lucky enough to get a hitch up the road to the trail after about an…