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http://www.trailjournals.com/entry.cfm?trailname=6589
Stumpknocker is having a heck of a hike. He started hiking the AT early in the year, got off the trail and biked across the country with Mrs. Gorp, then got back on the trail and is in PA! This is his 5th ( I think) hike of the AT. Great journal and awesome pics. He usually updates it everyday if you want to follow it. Hikerhead and I had the pleasure of visiting with him when he came thru Roanoke. We ate at The Homeplace. Rock on Stumpy!
http://www.trailjournals.com/entry.cfm?id=254436
Stumpy is about 150 miles from Katahdin
http://www.trailjournals.com/entry.cfm?id=255173
Will be finishing this week!
Crazy hike, wish I could have met him. I'll have to find out if he's going through Portland on his way back.
Kirby
cowboy nichols
10-05-2008, 18:04
He doesn't finish he move on to another trail----
He's in Millnocket, waiting for the ice to melt on Katahdin.
the climb has been closed for bad weather for the last several days.
Per his trail journal.
Grinder
the Real Jackaroo
11-19-2008, 16:46
good ole stumpknocker! i enjoyed hiking with him! he gave me his only beer (PBR) at the Knot Maul Branch Shelter in VA. last place i saw him was in duncannon.
He was in FL a couple of weeks ago, now he's out on the road again somewhere, who knows where???
Hammock Hanger
11-19-2008, 17:46
He is now done with his 2008 hike (#6). He is planning on spending some time in the north this winter and on to another trail next year.
stumpknocker
11-26-2008, 23:16
I saw him in Winooski, VT this morning, but he left there this afternoon....something about a roast turkey a couple hours south of there. :)
stumpknocker
11-26-2008, 23:17
He hasn't had internet access for a while....but that's about to change. :-?
stumpy,
good to see you on white blaze this evening! how cold is it
there? its around 35 down here in chattanooga, tn. over
here visiting with inlaws. you know how that goes! looking
forward to soruck 2009!
stay warm!
cutty
Ron Haven
11-27-2008, 00:54
Stumpknocker,
If you get this I am sending you a personal invite to out Christmas Party this year if you can make it on Dec 6TH.If not I hope to see you at the ruck.
Talked with him yesterday. He is now getting ready hit the Long Trail soon. Stumpy if you are logging on, say hi to your peeps!
the Long Trail in winter - I can see the book now - " The Extraordinary Adventurer" - hummm I wonder if he could get Liteshoe to ghost write it for him
the Long Trail in winter - I can see the book now - " The Extraordinary Adventurer" - hummm I wonder if he could get Liteshoe to ghost write it for him
He'd need Jan to write it to sell any copies. No one wants to read about Starbucks coffee and AYCE fried chicken and hostels every day :)
He'd need Jan to write it to sell any copies. No one wants to read about Starbucks coffee and AYCE fried chicken and hostels every day :)
that's pretty much what I was thinking too :sun
stumpknocker
12-08-2008, 11:10
He'd need Jan to write it to sell any copies. No one wants to read about Starbucks coffee and AYCE fried chicken and hostels every day :)
Now that really hurts!! I used to drink Starbuck's, but here's what I drink now; http://www.wrcoffee.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=91
I haven't had any fried chicken in almost ten days now....and I don't usually stay at hostels. I prefer Hampton Inns. :)
A-Train.....can you recommend any good fried chicken places up here in Burlington, VT? I know you lived here at one time.
stumpknocker
12-08-2008, 11:19
Talked with him yesterday. He is now getting ready hit the Long Trail soon. Stumpy if you are logging on, say hi to your peeps!
Just going out to do mostly day hikes with the snowshoes on. May do some longer sections where roads are closed and spend a few nights out along the Trail.
Just out playin' for now. :)
What are "peeps"? Are they any good fried?? :confused:
stumpknocker
12-08-2008, 11:26
that's pretty much what I was thinking too :sun
Are you agreeing with A-Train?? NOBODY ever agrees with A-Train!!! :eek:
Still, it's good to hear from you again. :)
stumpknocker
12-08-2008, 11:30
Stumpknocker,
If you get this I am sending you a personal invite to out Christmas Party this year if you can make it on Dec 6TH.If not I hope to see you at the ruck.
Thanks Ron, I'll try my best to make it. Wait....today is the 8th!! :eek:
I missed it this year, but thanks for the invite. Hopefully next year.:)
Hammock Hanger
12-08-2008, 19:45
Why are you not answering your gmail????
BTW: I'm making some mighty good chicken for dinner..... smells, soooooo good!!
stumpknocker
12-08-2008, 20:18
Why are you not answering your gmail????
BTW: I'm making some mighty good chicken for dinner..... smells, soooooo good!!
Gmail?? I've been slowly catching up on my email. I know....I'm bad!! :datz
I might answer sooner if I didn't have to hear everything you're having for dinner. Like I really care that you are having some "mighty good chicken" for dinner. :cool:
Isn't this a "hiking" site?? Shouldn't we be talkin' about walkin'? Where are you walkin' next?? :jump
warraghiyagey
12-08-2008, 20:27
Isn't this a "hiking" site?? Shouldn't we be talkin' about walkin'? Where are you walkin' next?? :jump
I'm having mac-n-cheese. . .
pm me and I'll give you the recipe. . .
http://www.freesmileys.org/smileys/laughing013.gif (http://www.freesmileys.org)
Hammock Hanger
12-08-2008, 21:26
If I can keep the swelling down on the knee and finish up my PT, I hope to hike some of north central FL for a few weeks in January. Still looking to get my last 20 miles in. However, since I will just be doing a section I don't really want to go out and do a whole lot of road walking.... Come May I hope to hike that whole month up in PA (not on the AT.) Got much snow yet?? (PS: I chicken was soooooo sooooo delicious!!)
Jan LiteShoe
12-13-2008, 17:23
the Long Trail in winter - I can see the book now - " The Extraordinary Adventurer" - hummm I wonder if he could get Liteshoe to ghost write it for him
He'd need Jan to write it to sell any copies. No one wants to read about Starbucks coffee and AYCE fried chicken and hostels every day :)
that's pretty much what I was thinking too :sun
Ha ha, I just saw this. Thanks, guys.
:)
I might have some free time, oh, in 2011. Should I book ya Stumpy?
Chapter One:
"It was a dark and stormy night in my fall-leaf-filled tent. It was cold. I stank. (Like, REALLY stank). But I was used to it. I was seasoned (so was my shirt). I was tough. REALLY, REALLY tough.
"After all, despite multiple candy-ass thrus and tricycyle rides, I 'd also hiked in The Wet Year of '03. I could hang with the Big Boys. Ahhh, '03, what good times... the best of years... I thought, nibbling a dry corner of my fried pie.
"Suddenly, on some fortuitous, fragrant breeze, the smell of fresh-perked coffee penetrated the bodily fug, wafting up the thermals from NOC far below like some flavor-roasted Kona buzzard... could it be? Yes! Yes!!! OH. YES!!! It was!
"PEPPERMINT coffee!
"I couldn't stand it. There would be no sleep tonight. I HAD to have a hostel. No two ways about it. I could almost taste that terrific, seasonal peppermint coffee, And the fried chicken! so salty and crisp, perfectly done, the hot juices bursting through the skin...
"I packed up quickly, scattering fried pies far and wide. Blech! Pies! Leave them for the bears! There was peppermint coffee to be had!
"It was snowing by now, thick, slushy flakes, sticking to the trail and the logs.
"In my food-addled haste, I tripped.... "
:sun
To be continued...
:banana:banana
Shadowmoss
12-13-2008, 18:11
I thought you were going to write about a FUTURE hike, not one of his past ones.