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Originally Posted by Can-Do

Trail name: Can-Do
Direction: NOBO to Harpers Ferry, then flip-flop, SOBO from Katahdin to Harpers Ferry.
Start Date: March 24, 2015
Approach trail: No

I've been dreaming about an AT thru-hike for about 20 years. My wife and I have been hiking sections for years. We used to live 10 miles from the 100 mile wilderness. It's time to do this before I get any older and still have my health. My wife said to go for it and will be my transporter and my
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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.