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http://www.flickr.com/photos/rasudduth/ / CC BY-NC 2.0 These are some responses to one question on my Appalachian Trail Thru-hiker Study relating to Sex on the Appalachian Trail. The question, (from Meusser’s 1989 study) was “The challenge to do the whole trail, the miles, being really tired, dirty and lacking amenities or privacy prompted one couple
This was taken about halfway into the Great Smoky Mountains, around December 15, 2005. From reading my journal, I was at least a month behind schedule at this point, and was just looking forward to finishing up at Springer Mountain in Georgia. The weather had other ideas. It had been cold and rainy for the [...] It never ever fails. I always have songs stuck in my head. Here are my Top 10 list of songs that got stuck between my ears on the Appalachian Trail and Mississippi RIver. Baby Got Back. Sir Mix-a-Lot is a poet and a fine American. This is song I’ve had in my head the most. I’ll always [...] Just following up on my post from last week on Thru-hiker Backpacks. This was part of a large study I bagan in 2007 on Appalachian Trail Thru-hikers. Over 540 long-distance hikers, with more than a million collective trail miles were part of this study. First let’s take a look at the Packs by Brand graph. Bear [...] I started my data collection for the Appalachian Trail Thru-hiker Study at Trail Days (May, 2007) and continued to collect responses through September 2007. As such, the last year for completed thru-hikes in this study was 2006, although many 2007 hikers submitted their surveys during their thru-hikes. Pack preferences come and go, but the Granite [...] Just wading through some more data from my AT Thru-hiker Study today and wanted to share some info on pack types. Here’s the chart of the 434 responses. Let’s dig into the numbers a little bit and see what we find. OK – I’m finally, finally getting around to putting up some very preliminary numbers from my Appalachian Trail Thru-hiker Study. 532 thru-hikers participated in this study, representing over One Million Miles of cumulative experience. Over the next few weeks, I’ll be presenting some of the results, and hope to completely be through this number-crunching madness [...] OK, so I’m kind of a slacker when it comes to getting disposable cameras back to the photo lab. Finally took a handful of these things in and man, there were some cool photos on them! Trail Days, 2003 Trail Days, 2003, Ox and Johnny Swank (John- younger and no beard) Getting Soaked Outside of Minneapolis Floodgates Opening St. Anthony’s [...] I’ve written about “Zero Days” before, but I saw a great thread at Whiteblaze.net recently and got to thinking about them again. For those not familiar with the term, thru-hikers refer to a “zero day” as a day off with no miles hiked, thus a “Zero Day.”Folks chimed in with what they did on their [...] Everyone knows that the ONLY way to thru-hike the Appalachian Trail is to start in Georgia and go north, right? Wrong. Here are five good reasons to consider thru-hiking southbound from Maine to Georgia of the typical northbound hike. Weather: Starting in Maine around June 15 – July 15 gives you plenty of cool nights at the height [...] Here’s a set of photo’s from my southbound thru-hike of the Appalachian Trail (AT) in 2000. This hike totalled about 2,165 miles from July 1, 2000 through January 11, 2001.
I ran across the series of newspaper articles I wrote for the Greensboro News and Record during my Appalachian Trail thru-hike in 2000 while going through some old boxes of stuff at the house. I scanned and snagged the text with Adobe Acrobat, and they’re now posted under the Appalachian Trail Thru-hike Journals category. Going [...] Resupplying by mail is a fairly simple process. The package is sent to the desired post office via general delivery. You show your ID to the postmaster and they give you your mail. You’ll want to allow several days for your package to arrive at the Post Office, but be aware that some locations will [...] I present several slideshows on both our Mississippi River Expedition and Appalachian Trail thru-hike every year. I love these presentations and especially enjoy the question and answer sessions. Each time I give the Appalachian Trail talk, I always know I’ll spend some time talking about footwear. Some folks hike in boots, some [...] |
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