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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’m taking a day off and sneaking out of town for a long weekend in the Grayson Highlands / Mount Rogers area. I’ve probably been there 15 times, so planning was a piece of cake. The weather looks crappy, but I’d rather spend a few days in sideways rain and wind then in the office [...] I recently spent a couple of evenings re-reading Earl Shaefer’s Walking with Spring. Earl was the first person to thru-hike the Appalachian Trail way back in 1948, and he wrote this book based on his journals and photos. I first read this about 15 years ago, and still go back every once in awhile [...] I’ve been busy as a bee lately working up the data on my Appalachian Trail Thru-hiker study. About 560 hikers responded to a survey that had over 125 questions, several of which had multiple parts, so cleaning up and recoding the data is taking a fair amount of time as expected. I’ll be putting up [...] I was thinking about the Appalachian Trail on the way to work today. I did a southbound thru-hike of the Appalachian Trail in 2000, and if I were to do it again, I’d change up [...] The amount of time you spend in town can often send your hiking budget through the roof. Lodging, meals, and all sorts of other small things can add up to a [...] Let’s face it—taking several months off to hike the Appalachian Trail can be an expensive proposition. Your trip of a lifetime can easily cost thousands of dollars, so here are some of the most effective ways I’ve found to help ease the bite. Some of these require a little planning and discipline, but the financial [...] At one point in time, potential thru-hikers could budget about a dollar per mile to cover their expenses on the trail. That day has long since past, with the [...] We used a combination of methods to get our thoughts down on paper. Jessica brought a bound journal that she wrote in most days. I also took a small notebook to jot ideas but it was rarely used. Most days I would go on a walk with a small tape recorder and ramble on about [...] It’s always the small things that get me excited about trips. One of these is my ziplock wallet. I always empty out my regular wallet and put the bare essentials [...] Rituals are important for Jess and I. Little things make a world of difference when you’re putting you head down in a different place every night. We take an inflatable pink [...] In 2000, I spent six months thru-hiking the 2.000+ miles of the Appalachian Trail from Maine to Georgia. That was a life-changing experience for me, and from the time I finished, I knew things just were not going to be the same from that point on. I made a promise to myself that every five [...] |
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