Appalachian Trail

Fan Club

September 17, 2009

I’ve written about the evil spandex/fanny pack wearing man and I think it bears mentioning all the people who have been kind and encouraging to me. Just now, an older walked by me on the trail as I was taking a lunch break. They asked me about my trip and then said, “You’re gonna make [...]

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Fruit cakes

September 10, 2009

Yesterday a woman about my age came up to me and said, “I have a present for you.” She held out a ripe orange. I felt like she was handing me a glowing, golden orb. Seriously. I cannot in my life remember a time when I was this excited to eat fruit. She said, “You’re [...]

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Shoving my pack through the Mahoosac Notch

September 6, 2009

The Mahoosac Notch is known as “the hardest mile on the Appalachian Trail.” In it, you wiggle under big boulders, stuff your backpack through holes, and hop from rock to rock. It was incredibly fun. Here are a few pictures of me shoving my pack ahead of me as I climb through a tunnel.

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When Addy met Sally

September 5, 2009

When I hiked onto a gravel road right after Caratunk, Maine, I came across a woman and her energetic golden retriever. “Hi,” she said. “I’m Tortoise.” I said, “No way! I’m Turtle.” We were immediately a team. Tortoise (real name Sally) and I hiked together for several days. She is a retired professor of Nursing [...]

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Basic information on the Appalachian Trail

September 4, 2009

Northbounders (Nobo’s)- Hikers who go from Georgia to Maine. Most people head this direction. Southbounders (Sobo’s) – Hikers who go from Maine to Georgia. Southbound represent! Flip-floppers- People who go one way for part of the trail and then jump down and go another direction to finish it. Trail names- Every thru-hiker chooses or is [...]

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Sunset at Pleasant Pond

September 1, 2009

“That’s not Pleasant Pond!” you say. And I say, “I’m running around town in a rush and may have forgotten the name of the actual pond. I will look it up later.” This is another experiment with my camera. I’m enjoying learning, making a lot of mistakes, and getting a lot of great practice.

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Bugs and Slugs

September 1, 2009

This morning I flicked eleven slugs off my tent, two off my hiking poles and several off my backpack. So, in the bug category, I would like to add a subsection: slugs. Reader: Slugs are not bugs, they are invertebrates. Ok, in the category of creepy, crawly, stingy, biting things in the woods, I would [...]

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No one’s in the kitchen with Dina

August 31, 2009

I’ve decided to go no cook, which is to say that I have decided that my trail life should match my home life. No cook hikers don’t bring stoves and subsist largely on powerbars and poptarts. You can end up carrying more weight than other people because you don’t have the freeze dried dinners. But [...]

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