What's Your Favorite AT Hiking Blog?

[cneill13]

This is mine. Better than any book I have read on the AT.

http://www.skwc.com/exile/Hail-nf.html

I also enjoy reading blogs on Trail Journal.

This is Red Panda from 2015.

http://www.trailjournals.com/about.cfm?trailname=18576

And Elle from 2016.

http://www.trailjournals.com/about.cfm?trailname=19144

Carl

[Uriah]

This is mine. Better than any book I have read on the AT.

http://www.skwc.com/exile/Hail-nf.html

I also enjoy reading blogs on Trail Journal.

This just came up on another thread, although it was about AT-related books and drifted into blog talk.

Then the Hail Came and A Limp in the Woods, by far the two best writer/hiker journals out there.

Here's a small sample I just read from A Limp this morning...

Some hikers aren’t in favor of shelters and all the amenities an AT journey might grant, since, in their minds, it’s a “wilderness path,” or is supposed to be. Shelters, bridges, trail signs, painted trees, random acts of trail magic, and so on: they profess to detest ‘em all. As it is with so many things in life (politics, borders, the economy, climate change, financial gain and/or status, patriotism, religion, etc), I’m completely indifferent (aka: emotionally constipated; I couldn’t give a ****) and would never mistake the AT or its surroundings as wilderness. It is no more wild than that mixed martial arts/octagon **** is art. You cannot surround a square meter of your backyard within a fence, then build a narrow corridor through it, let nature fight to take it over, and then call it wilderness. True wilderness (i.e., the absence of civilization) isn’t cordoned off and it certainly isn’t managed, except by the ruthless yet perfectly balanced, perfectly sensible, laws of nature. But such a place is gone or going fast, so some small, supervised strips of land--parks, peopled wilderness--will have to do. At least for now, until man makes his exit and the planet recycles itself, as it forever has.

[Uriah]

And this bloke's, for sure...

http://www.trailjournals.com/entry.cfm?id=551791 (http://www.trailjournals.com/entry.cfm?id=551791)

[Out Runnin']

I have been watching Will Wood on Youtube. He recorded his hike on the AT and the PCT. It is great for people to see first hand what to expect. The AT videos list days and distance, which helped me have an understanding of it.

[eggymane]

Walkingwithwired is pretty good

[AtWokman]

storytimewithstubbs

[RiverbirchHiker]

A friend of mine's posting on YouTube during his '17 thru-hike. He's in NC now:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCeXGefHG_PzDo8KTDQ5CFRw

Google Joe Vanderkooi YouTube and you'll get there.

[ldsailor]

I wanted to document my LASH (532 miles) last year. I thought Facebook would do the trick. It was effective and all my FB "friends" followed me. They "liked" and commented freely. However, after getting off the trail I realized the FB posts were now buried and hard to get at.

I decided some sort of blog or journal would be better. While trailjournals.com does a nice job, it leaves flexibility difficult to attain. Consequently, I built a blog Web site. I moved all my FB posts of hiking to the blog. It's about 75% finished and I'm extremely pleased with it. I have my own domain and my own Web site blog, which links to Facebook. By the way, the blog approach was inspired by another exceptional blog web site. If I can find it again, I'll post the address.

I'm going to do some more hiking NOBO this year and I'm anxious to see how the blog works out. Facebook was easy to update last year. I'm hoping the blog website will be easy to update, too.