What will be your LAST section?

[Nutbrown]

What are you saving for the last section of your years spent sectioning the AT? I have avoided Harpers Ferry in order to hike to the ATC and get my cert, but might save Maine for last.

[tdoczi]

either GA or ME. i get a laugh out of sectioners who start with the termini and often wonder at what totally nondescript point along the trail theyll end up finishing.

[Berserker]

Despite skipping all over the place all my sections have been NOBO. So my plan at this point is to hike the 100 mile wilderness and summit Katahdin on the final section. Since it's still a ways off that is all subject to change of course.

[hikerboy57]

although I'm doing maine this august I still hope 1 day to do a complete north bound I'd rather and at the titans

[10-K]

although I'm doing maine this august I still hope 1 day to do a complete north bound I'd rather and at the titans

Did you get your resupply figured out? In Maine I resupplied:

Gorham
Andover
Caratunk
Stratton
Monson
Whitehouse Landing
Abol Bridge

Didn't really need Whitehouse Landing.. Just got some whoopie pies and some crap junk food.

[sruby00]

i must say it is nice share

[hikerboy57]

Did you get your resupply figured out? In Maine I resupplied:

Gorham
Andover
Caratunk
Stratton
Monson
Whitehouse Landing
Abol Bridge

Didn't really need Whitehouse Landing.. Just got some whoopie pies and some crap junk food.

yeah I wasn't counting on white house for any major resupply but that's pretty much what I was figuring

[10-K]

The 1 lb cheeseburger at WHL is interesting. It's a big dang burger.

[ATSeamstress]

Definitely saved Katahdin for last. The Lord willing I'll be there in September!

[Kathleen Demers]

Much appreciated

[fudgefoot]

Just 3 more sections to go, in the following order:

ME Rt 17 --> Monson
Springer --> NOC
Monson --> Katahdin

Hope to finish in the next 2 years.

[Namaste]

I haven't given that much thought but to answer now probably Tennessee. I've climbed Katahdin many times then hiked all of Maine in one shot summer 2008 so I'm done with Maine. I usually base my sections/trips on convenience so I never really know where I'll be next.

[trippclark]

I have been doing the sections in linear order since Georgia in 2000. So my last section will end on Katahdin. It is far out there, but my tentative plan calls for Monson to Katahdin on September 1 -12, 2020. This is the only future section, outside of my fall trip this year, that I have specific dates assigned to.

[burger]

I'm hoping to finish the AT on Katahdin in a couple of years. If all goes as planned, that will be the end of my Triple Crown, too. It seems like a fitting climax to the AT. And based on what I've done, my only other options would be Caratunk or somewhere between Newfound Gap and Waynesboro, none of which seem appropriate for ending a TC.

[1azarus]

scheduled 5.2 miles at Baxter sith my daughter for September 7th and done. very excited.

[Del Q]

By "Dumb Luck", my 20 year old son talked me into doing Springer and Katahdin in the same year.........live outside Philly, typically South in the Spring, North in the Fall..........accelerating progress

[Sarcasm the elf]

What are you saving for the last section of your years spent sectioning the AT? I have avoided Harpers Ferry in order to hike to the ATC and get my cert, but might save Maine for last.

I hope that I never have a LAST section of the trail that I hike, but I agree that I would like save BSP and Katahdin for the completion of my full section hike. (some time in the next decade ). In reality I fit in whatever sections I can whenever I have time to. I will have probably hiked Connecticut and Southern Mass over ten times by the time I have finished hiking The whole trail in sections.

On a related note the problem with section hiking is that every time you finish a section, the next unhiked trailhead is even farther from your house!

[Sarcasm the elf]

scheduled 5.2 miles at Baxter sith my daughter for September 7th and done. very excited.

Awesome, congratulations in advance!

[Kerosene]

scheduled 5.2 miles at Baxter sith my daughter for September 7th and done. very excited.

That's fantastic. My daughter and cousin have agreed to summit Katahdin with me in 3 years. Here's the schedule for my last 3 section hikes:

9/12: Pinkham Notch to Rangeley
9/13: Rangeley to Monson
9/14: Monson to Katahdin

I was hoping to finish up in 2013, 40 years after my first AT section hike (DWG to Unionville), but I shortened my annual hike a few years ago to accommodate my newbie daughter (who is now hooked on backpacking).

[burger]

Why do so many folks start/end sections at Monson? Caratunk is WAY more accessible as a section hiker. When I got to Caratunk a couple of years ago, it was no trouble to get a ride down the highway to Waterville. There's no easy way to get to Monson.