Wowwwww, here it is. The date.
> Thirty years ago today. Me and Mom and Dad at Nimblewill Gap, thirty years ago today.
> Sheesh.
> And here, with Google Earth, I can zoom in on it, see the
> actual tree.
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> So!
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> Trepidation gets masked
> Goethe said fortune favors bold
> But what does he know?

wistfultoe
GA->ME'79

(who misses whiteblaze, but needs miles miles miles...)

so virtual surfing becomes virtual hiking :)

How about a picture of the Youngtoe?

How about a picture of the Youngtoe?

I had to try, Rick!
So I just "uploaded" two, according to the WB software.

April 8th Nimblewill Gap {brash idiot about to embark}

May 26th? Damascus, with freshly minted SLOETOE bandage, leaning against the gentle giant of Rich, of Rich & Effie fame -- he hiked with a banjo, she with a dulcimer.


(All that said, there's no indication on the screen in front of me that my upload was successful. Please Stand By.)

Well! THAT was so much fun, I think I'll......

TRY IT AGAIN.


Mount Rogers, Memorial Day sneaux, sans fiberpile and pants. UGH. And a sore toe, freshly operated on.....

Chase Mt. CT, when the trail went through Macedonia Brook State Park. I'm returning to the trail after 5 days at home, buying food and making maildrops. I be way psyched. i be skinny, too.

Abol Bridge (without the fancy-pants walkway) -- the clouds are descending on my mountain, promising me the ass-kicking I'm going to get on September 11, 1979.

Katahdin -- the mountain was "closed" the day I hiked. (I didn't know! Honest!) One other guy came up -- I met him on my way down. With a wicked wind BEFORE the gusts, it took us a few minutes to get a shot, but there we are. This was the most visibility I'd had all day, but right after he took this shot, the clouds just lifted up entirely, like magic, right as I hit The Gateway. Burned a whole roll of film on the way down. Icy, windy, but now a drying wind.

Great shots.

The first one with your Mom is great. Made me smile, anyway!

Looks like you walking stick made it all the way, too. Probably lost a few inches, I'll bet.

You still that skinny?

Hard for me to believe it's 30 years ago, but then I know high school classmates who are now grandparents. Less than a year from today, I may be able to post of beginning an A.T. through hike 30 years ago in Georgia.

I hope you are still enjoying life as much as you were then.:)

Still a great achievement even many years later.

:)

You have to post some photos on your anniversary, SOG/EM :)

Great shots.

The first one with your Mom is great. Made me smile, anyway!

Looks like you walking stick made it all the way, too. Probably lost a few inches, I'll bet.

You still that skinny?

That stick (still have it) was from a "popping pole" fishing rod, with a 1/2" female ferrule of light-ish metal on the end, about 4 inches in length. Weighed nothing (bamboo is way lighter than aluminiumyinym), stronger than ______, but by the time I hit Connecticut, it only had a wedding band left on it, and Vermont mud sucked that right off. Between Killington and Katahdin, it lost about an inch per 100 miles, so that last shot it was more like a cane.

Am I still that skinny? YOW. I started the trail at 150 pounds, despite trying to "bulk up" before I went. I'd been 150 since I was 15, so there wasn't much chance I guess. But by Pennsyvania, I was down to 136 (I figure 0% body fat), and stayed there through the rest of the trail. Obviously, 100 pounds of it was leg -- I was really sailing the second half.

WALSTIBnnnnnnnnn.

Oh, but, to answer your question.... I still look basically the same, if a few pounds up on good trail weight...... Dang urban lassitude......

reluctanturbanitetoe