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Hitting the trail again. Hoefully third time will be the charm. Start date is the 7th of April.

hello to all,
just a few of the details. who is PegLegDave? well Dave it a gnome who has been traveling with me over the past 8+ years on my adventures. my name is James and on this Adventure I will be traveling with my Beautiful other half Kim. I have been planning this hike for a few years now and Kim got on board about a year and a half ago. so together we have been collecting our gear and getting prepared to thru-hike the AT.we are now down to 50 days until we start! we plan on hiking ...

Originally Posted by Lauriep

Class of 2015:

I've created a graph from the Appalachian Trail Conservancy's 2,000-miler database to show the starting dates of thru-hikers over a 5-year period.

The data is compiled from northbounders who successfully completed their hikes and reported them to ATC from 2010-2014. It includes all of the finishers for the last 5 years (except for those who reported in the last few weeks). That number is almost exactly th[ATTACH]undefined[/ATTACH]e same as the number of

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Has anyone hiked this section recently? If so, is there snow accumulation on the trail? If so, approximately how much? Thx.

Hi everyone,

Here is something that had me perplexed over the years. We all sign into the logbooks at the AT shelters (and others). Whatever happens to them when they're full or too damaged to uses any more at the end of the season? Does a hobbit come along and collect them, are they archived somewhere, or just discarded?