crazyhair, will you have a trail journal to follow?
good luck on your hike!
Originally Posted by CrumbSnatcher
The dare2care website will have a trail map with a GPS position to show progress. Obviously there will be a lag time in the positioning for safety reasons. There are around a dozen videos to be loaded now and I appologize that it isn't up and running already but you will be able to see the progress and read my text from that site. Thank you for wishing me good luck.
Have a great hike Crazyhair and Good luck...Hope you get alot of donations..
My love for life is quit simple .i get uo in the moring and then i go to bed at night. What I do inbween is to occupy my time. Cary Grant
At a meeting last night, I met the overseer of the final 60 miles of the trail -- from the Jo Mary Campground Road to the summit of Katahdin. He said he rarely has seen this much snow this time of year. No one can predict Maine conditions three months ahead of time, but his comments suggest that early hikers will have an extra tough time getting through Maine this year.
It is seasonally warm along midcoast Maine at the moment, 39 F, with a gentle late winter rain. But it will take a lot of warmth to melt the mound of snow at the foot of my driveway -- the most I've seen in 48 years of living here.
You know the pile of plowed snow at the end of a drive that makes it hard to pull out onto the road?
I saw a guy on top of one yesterday, swinging a mattock.
Ice banks galore.
He's brimming with confidence, which is necessary. But I don't think it's a foregone conclusion at all. He looks tough, but not like a sprinter. And he's gonna' try to do it in what? 49 days? Maybe.
Skywalker--Close Encounters on the Appalachian Trail
Crazyhair, good luck on your endevors for great causes!
For the naysayers. Didn't you read his background...former Navy SEAL & instructor to boot. His thruhike will be like a walk in the park for him.
I appreciate his resume and respect his service but it wont be a walk in the park. its gonna be miraculous if he breaks the mark, but i do wish him all the best!
God Bless and good speed.
"Take this bread, if you need it friend, cause i'm alright if you're alright" The Felice Brothers
Looks like he started April 15! He's posted some GPS points so it looks like he's well on the way. I read the entire thread and Crazyhair, I don't know if you're still reading this but I applaud your effort. You seem like a very genuine person who ran into a bunch of cynical old farts questioning everything from your good motives to your military service. (although there are a lot of SEAL fakers out there so I can understand some of the skepticism.) Also I noticed a conspicuous lack of an apology from someone who promised one ...
Anyway, you have some very worthy causes and I hope your hike helps bring some publicity and $$ to those organizations.
Happy hiking!!!
Data from his SPOT locator so far:
April 17 11:30 Mile 30.7 Neels Gap
April 18 11:12 Mile 36.2 Tesnatee Gap trailhead
April 18 17:39 Mile 48.7 Blue Mountain shelter
April 19 12:06 Mile 56.1 Tray Mountain
April 19 17:07 Mile 64.0 Deep Gap shelter
April 20 08:19 Mile 67.5 Dicks Creek Gap trailhead
Everything is easy until you do it.
He's going to have to pick up the pace quite a bit to beat any record! I had expected to see him jog by me already. (Am currently at NOC taking a second zero day in a week ... its so hard to leave a dry place on a rainy morning...)
"Your eyes will be opened to a world full of beauty, charm, and adventure"
Not very impressive; actually very awful given the fact that this is a shot at the record.
Mr. Mweinstone might of been on to something.
"The aim of science is to make difficult things understandable in a simpler way; the aim of poetry is to state simple things in an incomprehensible way. The two are incompatible."
-- Paul Dirac
Well I for one wish him all the best in his attempt. I'm not enough of a trail expert to know if his start has already put the record out of reach. Do we know his planned mileage the first few days?
I do know he'd be kicking my sorry overweight butt if I was out there so I have no room to criticize.
Everything is easy until you do it.
If he was a Navy SEAL, he can probably do it with a garbage bag and a can of tuna.
What do you mean for safety reasons. You think someone might try to do something to slow you down or hurt you?
Panzer
i hiked faster than this with a 60 pound pack. i didn't set any records either, besides most zero days in the woods.
"The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions, that I wish it always to be kept alive." -TJ
You need to break away now; you're entering a black hole! The force of gravity only gets stronger
"The aim of science is to make difficult things understandable in a simpler way; the aim of poetry is to state simple things in an incomprehensible way. The two are incompatible."
-- Paul Dirac
I find it hard to figure out how many miles per day this guy is doing. Has he done 67.5 miles in 5 days? April 15-19?
I don't see how it matters (his daily mileage); any way you cut it he is WAY off of setting any record. That's not much better than an average thru-hike. That mileage wouldn't even be considered a warm-up for any serious attempt.
"The aim of science is to make difficult things understandable in a simpler way; the aim of poetry is to state simple things in an incomprehensible way. The two are incompatible."
-- Paul Dirac
Safety/security/privacy issues on the trail are nothing unique to CrazyHair. Miss Janet is similarly delaying her TrailJournal entries.
CrazyHair’s GPS tracks:
http://share.findmespot.com/shared/f...2aKEBro0D9mKLY
Departed Springer 4/17/2011 11:29 AM.
Last GPS reading 4/20/2011 8:19 AM Dick’s Creek Gap.
Looks like one partial day and 2 full days = 67.5 miles. About 26 miles per day. Just warming up.
P.S.: Quasarr, as I understand it, fences have been mended mano a mano between involved parties.
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