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Mixed reviews amongst the thrus last year too. I liked the place, but when I caught up to the folks I'd been tailing (and further encounters) it was mostly negative. Guys definitely liked it more...

I almost cast myself off a cliff getting my food up the pole at Watuga Lake, so I guess I'd suggest staying sober, first of all. After that, get someone stronger and taller to help, have a spotter,...

I went thru with the Exos 58, which also has a wispy little belt. for me, anything above 30 (at first) was uncomfortable on the hips. As the belt stretched and wore, that weight got a bit lower over...

I think the icebreaker has been the best overall for durability. Minus33 ripped almost right away on me - not bad but disappointing. Smartwool has held up pretty well, but the weave isn't as nice as...

A Canadian I hiked with sent just a couple of big boxes from home to early trail stops, then split up the supplies into smaller boxes and forwarded them as necessary in Priority boxes. I won't say it...

Whatever other responses you get, don't forget Parmesan. It keeps well, has the salt you'll crave, and will improve whatever else you put on the pasta. I didn't stray far from a parmesean and pesto...

That...is an article about an errant bear. Did it owe AT&T for overages or something?

Yeah, more about comfortable than clean since they got washed a lot less. If you aren't carrying camp shoes we probably won't see eye to eye on this either - I dove headfirst into a river in Maine to...

So here's something I took the entire first half of the AT to find... pants for wearing around camp, when sleeping, and in town. Nobody else I was hiking with seemed to have much of a need or want....

Either way someone's going to end up frustrated - you at going too slow or him at never being able to rest. Which one of you can handle that and still have a fun hike? Or maybe you switch it up every...

^I second that notion. So far I've stumbled across Hammock Gear from Buffalo Skipper's post, Golite, Nunatak, and this DIY page (instructions leave a bit to be desired). Personal testimonials are...

I found that any chlorine odor dissipated by the time the treatment period was up, but Aquamira Part B is phosphoric acid, the same stuff that gives coca-cola it's 'tang', and it remains in the...

I carried this 15 liter badboy all the way from Georgia to Maine. Developed a few small rips and wasn't quite waterproof at the end, but didn't warrant replacement. Volume was adequate until the very...

Interesting. Person I hiked with carried a montbell 15 degree the whole way. It always looked super comfy...

I should also note that a nearby outfitter *does* carry Western Mountaineering bags,...

Sorry if this is too frequent a topic for your tastes, the searches weren't really turning up what I want.

Just a bit of background first: I'm probably what you'd call a hot sleeper. I did most...

After I got sick of the taste of Aquamira, I switched to an MSR Hyperflow. The cartridge quality was a bit spotty, but otherwise I found it light and fast.

My company gave me a 6 month leave of absence. Somewhere in Maine, I had to call and let them know I wouldn't be coming back.

The blazes are on the trail. As you know, sections of the trail change every year. GPS-based shapefiles don't, they're established in the year they were taken. But even for the year that they do, I'd...

I like slide rule better than the name I went by during my thru hike.

Oh wait, I remember this one time a year ago, I was in a mountainous area in southern NY - a bit of mountains the AT bypasses incidentally - with a GPS that boasted sub-foot accuracy on its handhel...

<br><br>You're going to take close to five million steps. For each point how many positions fed in to it? and did differential GPS and the global corrections feed in? What is the error at each of...

You're going to take close to five million steps. You're not ready for the rest of the math.\

don't want to start a fight, and the computer I'm on no longer has ArcView, but I don't think a 2180 mile line in a 3.5 megabyte file is going to be accurate or high resolution. I've collected more...

Yeah, the places you run dry will vary from year to year. I hit northern PA at 108 degrees this past summer, and without help it would have been... well it still was awful, but at least I got a day...

You'll send it home at Neel's Gap if you take it to the start. It's wasted weight.

The trail is well marked and well-worn. In contrast, there is no accurate publicly available GPS track of the...