joshobrien77
05-24-2015, 18:45
I'm a 37 year old IT guy. I have been doing light hiking in Ohio over the past two years with up to 16 mile days. Even spent two days in the NH Whites with a buddy last year.
Long and short of it is I am trying to get a group of 5 to 10 IT folks together to do a section hike on the AT mid to Late summer. Looking for something we can safely do in 3 days with no more than 10 miles a day.
I was looking up sections for NC and found this, http://wilderness.org/no-time-hike-appalachian-trail-try-these-12-easy-section-hikes. The Nantahala Mountains stood out as a sub 30 mile trip with great vistas and from what I have read reasonable hiking conditions. It also seems to me like the traffic will be low with the Nobos well on their way to Maine.
Considering none of us are super in shape and some may be downright out of shape I need to make sure that each of the three days has a valid bailout point. When we get this trip planned out it will be super detailed including having planned ferry drivers and bail out drivers at pickup points
This hike seems very doable for the group I'm talking about. I have read 10 or so AT through hike books at this point and while challenging none of them seem to indicate that 9 or 10 mile start days should be to much on a new hiker. We also would be splitting a set amount of gear between all hikers to keep the loads as light as possible.
Anyway you all have more experience in this space than me so I would love some feedback. Ultimately I would like to start doing this at least twice a year on different trails to get us out of our DataCenters and Cubes and into the wild.
Thanks ahead of time!
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Long and short of it is I am trying to get a group of 5 to 10 IT folks together to do a section hike on the AT mid to Late summer. Looking for something we can safely do in 3 days with no more than 10 miles a day.
I was looking up sections for NC and found this, http://wilderness.org/no-time-hike-appalachian-trail-try-these-12-easy-section-hikes. The Nantahala Mountains stood out as a sub 30 mile trip with great vistas and from what I have read reasonable hiking conditions. It also seems to me like the traffic will be low with the Nobos well on their way to Maine.
Considering none of us are super in shape and some may be downright out of shape I need to make sure that each of the three days has a valid bailout point. When we get this trip planned out it will be super detailed including having planned ferry drivers and bail out drivers at pickup points
This hike seems very doable for the group I'm talking about. I have read 10 or so AT through hike books at this point and while challenging none of them seem to indicate that 9 or 10 mile start days should be to much on a new hiker. We also would be splitting a set amount of gear between all hikers to keep the loads as light as possible.
Anyway you all have more experience in this space than me so I would love some feedback. Ultimately I would like to start doing this at least twice a year on different trails to get us out of our DataCenters and Cubes and into the wild.
Thanks ahead of time!
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