Hey, dudes,
I'm planning a thru hike in 2017. I've done plenty of weekends, a few 4-5 day trips here and there, but never necessarily "backpacked" for anything longer than about 3 days, I would guess about 45-50 miles at most.
My problem is that I live in South Georgia and I have a hard time finding trails of any decent distance down here. I'm near the coast, about 50 miles south of Savannah.
I'd like to find a few trails that are within a reasonable distance of home to just go out and do like 100 miles or so, probably more of a shakedown hike, but mostly just for the fun of it before the AT next year. I'm trying to avoid going all the way up to North GA, especially going to do part of the AT early (I just feel like it'd be more enjoyable next year if it was ALL new to me on the AT specifically, but maybe that's just me).
Finding public land and even parks isn't the big issue. I want to find somewhere with the trails and, hopefully, a change in terrain. Yall have any ideas? I know I just suck with the internet, some are more challenged than others in just searching for stuff. But any ideas would be awesome.
Thanks
Sam