Ever feel like the trail along the AT is like this..................

[Different Socks]

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And ya still grunted and groaned and bitched to the top, all w/o ropes.

[Pedaling Fool]

Everyone feels that way from time to time, but you just have to fight thru it, the only other choice is to give up. This is why it is so important to keep the body healthy and to have the proper attitude, which is crucial; however, I find proper attitude is much easier to maintain with a healthy body.

I'm going to beat this guy's records when I'm 100 (providing I don't kill myself on America's roads:)) http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/22/sports/a-bolt-from-the-past-don-pellmann-at-100-is-still-breaking-records.html?partner=rss&emc=rss&_r=0

[bigcranky]

Looks more like the Long Trail in my experience. And there would be a blaze in the middle of the cliff, halfway up. :)

[Slo-go'en]

Yep, we went up and down a few cliffs like that in the Mahoosucs a few days ago...

[BirdBrain]

I went over a section like this coming off Wildcat E. I took a wrong turn just after the last great view of Pinkham Notch on the way down. The real trail was bad enough. Half way down the wrong turn, I thought I was done for. I was wedged in hard and I could not go back. I was forced to jump to a small patch of dirt that was on the edge of an even bigger cliff. Obviously I survived. But ya, if going down Wildcat E, turn left at the huge builder just after the last great view. Turn right for a good time.

[Another Kevin]

I feel that way more often on trails other than the AT. Some of the trails I hike on are doozies. The camera is a little tilted in the first picture. The lady was not leaned into the rock, she had her weight centered properly over her boots. Unbelievably, she and her husband were hiking with their dog. (And he could manage the trail just fine. Heck of a dog.)

And roger on the blaze on the rock face. Note the red blaze marking the vertical crack in the second picture. I had to haul my pack on that one. It and I didn't fit in the chimney together. I have no idea where the guy that installed the trail marker stood when he drilled the rock for the bolt that holds the marker. I'm guessing he had a top rope.

https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3091/3183604309_8e41d5a8fd_z.jpg?zz=1 (https://flic.kr/p/5RjNDt) https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3706/9764675293_8758ba8ddf_z.jpg (https://flic.kr/p/fSSvLz)

[Smoky Spoon]

Incredible pics!



I feel that way more often on trails other than the AT. Some of the trails I hike on are doozies. The camera is a little tilted in the first picture. The lady was not leaned into the rock, she had her weight centered properly over her boots. Unbelievably, she and her husband were hiking with their dog. (And he could manage the trail just fine. Heck of a dog.)

And roger on the blaze on the rock face. Note the red blaze marking the vertical crack in the second picture. I had to haul my pack on that one. It and I didn't fit in the chimney together. I have no idea where the guy that installed the trail marker stood when he drilled the rock for the bolt that holds the marker. I'm guessing he had a top rope.

https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3091/3183604309_8e41d5a8fd_z.jpg?zz=1 (https://flic.kr/p/5RjNDt) https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3706/9764675293_8758ba8ddf_z.jpg (https://flic.kr/p/fSSvLz)

[Another Kevin]

Incredible pics!

Credit where credit is due. Only the second one is mine. The first is Justin's. (I was paying too much attention to my climbing to get a camera out.)