one of the best trail magic sources on trail is the magic you create yerself within yer own trail community of the given year you hike.
I left the trail due to many reasons, but the major one...
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one of the best trail magic sources on trail is the magic you create yerself within yer own trail community of the given year you hike.
I left the trail due to many reasons, but the major one...
i found an older laptop online for like 99 bucks, which would be great if it didn't weigh so much, but as products advance and technology drops in price, it is gonna be a great alternative to...
contact leki...they will do everything in their power to make it right and help you resolve this....they make like 100 bucks per set and they want to keep that kind of profit margin going thru...
you might be hiker trash if, while strolling the neighboorhood park, you looked for stealth camping opportunities and told yer buds where it was.
leave no trace went out of style when prehistoric man cut the dang trail to start with and cut it to live off the land....sheesh guess you never ate a dang blueberry near Palmerton or blackberry...
Hook said he assumed his friend got hurt and froze to death in a snowstorm that blew on the last night he was seen alive.
ah yes i was speed reading again...will get me everytime
maybe i need to reread the article that was the original post....i could swear it said that he had injured himself....maybe he wrote something down in a journal or something that would say how he was...
oh, don't ferget the countless number of folks who think FR42 is the start of the trail and never touched springer at all...happens more than you might think
the march 1st crowd this year was down as best i could tell and much slower hikers than i have seen in the limited time since i have been hiking...in 04 when i went over hump mt there were 2 of us in...
not sure i understand economics or USFS or National Park Service issues at all...but i do know peole who make millions work for that and work smarter than me and I would be glad to have millions if I...
the thing is, these people were not idiots....even donovan did exactly what he should have done....they found a water source and followed that ravine directly to some lower elevation so that their...
other uses for maps...you could chew it for possible calories or make a bland no sugar tea or add it to the old creel pot for swill...a map could also be used for a tournequet if processed into a...
trail maintainance = water bars, steps, switchbacks, tree trimming or cut thrus of blowdowns, blazes, water pipes, signs to side trails, shelters and other points of interest. oddly enough, some blow...
speaking of the AT....
in a white out you listen...the trail makes sounds that you only have when you are on it because it is hard packed, gully most of the time...a single step to either side will...
wow veteran...almost looks like a painting or a postcard...very lovely old mill
in 04 there was a guy named wanderlost...my guess is he was in his 80's....seems that old fart would hike 10-15 miles a day even when he might head south cause he had no sense of direction, and meet...
hahaha renee has been using that line forever....but unfortunately i have begun to believe that chick....hehehe since i've known her before we knew each other were hikers i'd add, ya never know when...
yellow blazing doesn't count road trips into towns for resupply or 0 days....get real...yellow blazing can mean going on a trip during yer hike to say NYC or DC or home temporarily in journals this...
i've also heard loads of great stuff about this place from folks who have stayed there. I was also interested myself in dropping off my vehicle at one time and was informed they do that too...even...
so sorry joe...that can happen....i had a little of that myself and i had hiked 700 miles when it happened...i know it is common not to bond with weekend warriers since they hadn't hiked as...
in florida they actually have a law that says no attaching anything to the trees...however, if you discuss with the care taker that you are hiking and that you understand leave no trace, and you...
night hiking is fun and you can stage for a big day or short day the following day. best to stay away from shelters if yer night hiking, unless you get water there...most of the complaints i heard...
oh and i am not sure if the quote was given correctly or not, but that spot to me sounds more like the climb now into NOC before the last shelter...i fell there...was pretty sweet...right after the...
in 04 we were building cairnes from NC on....seems like people would drop off a rock as we went along and we would add one as we went thru too...
tacoda, in winter and even early spring in the mountains, dropping down into the leigh of the mt or even down into the valley may be yer best bet for wind avoiding. In summer autumn yer gonna want a...