2009 Thru-Hike Registry

[GeoHiker]

Trail Name: TBD
Direction: NOBO
Start Date: Late Feb or Early March, 09
Approach Trail: Without a doubt

[trekkngirl]

Trail name:trekkngirl
Direction:NOBO
Start Date:March 16th..my late dads birthday..hmm.. why not?
Approach Trail..done it already..will do it again before "THE DATE"...so no Can't wait!!

[jmhouse]

Trail Name: none yet
Direction: NOBO (as of right now)
Start Date: April sometime
Approach Trail: yep

Start date is tentative due to not knowing how much money i'll have saved by then. I'll know for sure as it gets closer

[mark28]

trail name, "spoons"
direction, nobo
start date, march 09 2009
approach trail, unlikely

[bonnie]

Trail Name: Windwalker
Direction: nobo
Estimated Start Date: late March/early April
Approach Trail - yes

i've been dreaming of this adventure since i was in junior high school and first saw a book on the AT while working at the library. trying to cut my pack (and windwalker) weight as much as possible to be kind to my knees (ITB syndrome, patelofemoral syndrome, chondromalacia--all sorts of fun knee stuff). i am a vegan, so it seems like maildrops are going to be the way to go. looking into a gearskin "pack" and lunar solo shelter. welcome any and all advice...and i love dancing bananas.

[Rusticus]

Trail Name: Rusticus
Direction: North
Estimated Start Date: Late March
Approach Trail - yes

[keifers13]

Trail Name: Huck Finn
Direction: NOBO
Start Date: March 9th
Approach Trail: Yes

This is a great idea! Many kudos for doing this.

[Hooch]

So far, there's only one other pre-March NOBO besides me posting here.

Don't worry, they'll find you. Y'all just follow the trail of toilet paper.

[Alex]

So it looks like life has forced me to make this a 3 month section hike instead of a through. I'll still be starting the same time and can't wait to meet everyone here. -Crab Cake


Trail Name: Crab Cake
Direction: Nobo
Estimated Start Date: mid ->late March
Approach Trail - yes

I'm officially comitted, can't wait to meet everyone.

[Monkeywrench]

I'm officially comitted...

So they are letting you out for your hike?

[leprechaun]

trail name: leprechaun
direction: NOBO
Estimated Start Date: Late april early may
approach trail: yes

[Jason of the Woods]

Squid, I guess you had better jot me down as leaving somtime north again in about mid march. The only thing that could change that is if the great western trail steals me.

[minnesotasmith]

Don't worry, they'll find you. Y'all just follow the trail of toilet paper.

I use privies when I can, and go off-Trail and bury the aftermath when I can't. Only when 1) in considerable, unplanned emergency-level urgency, 2) the ground is frozen so hard I can't do a burial, and 3) I can't find a large rock or something to put atop the mess, would I possibly leave a TP-flower anywhere near the Trail.

[Jason of the Woods]

stick man nobo 21 march 2009 approach trail yes

This guy needs a new name. ARen't I Grandfathered in?

[BearII]

Trail Name: Bear
Direction: Nobo
Estimated Start Date: mid ->late March (depending on when the taxes get sorted - got to get that accountant for the LLC to get on the stick sooner!! )
Approach Trail - yes

[BearII]

Spend about 200 hours reading on this website. Watch some AT movies, read at least one well-done (e.g., non-Bryson) book on the AT, and get a guidebook ASAP.

Minnie - can you recommend a favorite book on the AT? Which guidebook did you prefer?

[minnesotasmith]

Minnie - can you recommend a favorite book on the AT? Which guidebook did you prefer?

1) "On The Beaten Path" by Robert Rubin. He worked as a book editor for years, so IMO understood what is, and is not, good writing.

2) I used Wingfoot's "The Thruhiker's Handbook", but went thru it with an AT Companion and added in capacity, age built, and whether or not it had a privy by each shelter.

3) I'll add here that I strongly recommend ordering the entire ATC set of maps months ahead of time, as the outfitters north of Harper's Ferry were seriously unreliable at having AT maps on hand, especially NJ/NY. Also, get the National Geographic trail maps for the Smokies and the White/S. Maine, and the Shenandoah Park map (latter probably available for free when you get there). Those maps have VERY useful info about cross trails so you know where you are, campsites and water sources not listed on ATC maps/guidebooks, etc. About 40 bucks for all of those NG maps.

P.S. The preferred abbreviation for my trail name is MS. Minnie is a mouse, and surely you know what most thruhikers think about mice...

[corialice81]

Trail Name: Gonna try a new one...done with Blister and Doc!
Direction: NOBO
Estimated Start Date: Feb. 9th, 2008
Approach Trail - YES! Quite your whinning 33whiskey! It'll be fun...dunna dunna dunna.

I've got some unfinished business to attend to. I tried a NOBO 08 on 4.19 then a SOBO 08 on 07.01....did 300 miles total and I'm just not satisfied.

[corialice81]

Geez...I meant Feb. 9th, 2009!!!

[the Harms house]

Trail Name: TBD
Direction: NOBO
Estimated Start Date: March 9th
Approach Trail - yes or no: yes

my wife and i will be embarking together