View Full Version : Journey completed 9/17/07
I haven't been on here in awhile, but I thought I would pop out here to see what is going on. I completed my hike on 9/17 (starting on 3/17). What an awesome journey. The people you meet along the way helps to restore your faith in humanity. If only it could be that way everywhere. Thank you to all of the wonderful people on the trail and near the trail for making my journey so incredible!
http://www.trailjournals.com/mm
http://highpeaksclimbing.com/MM2007
Bravo and congratulations. :sun:sun
neighbor dave
09-22-2007, 15:29
:banana hip hip hooray!!!!:banana
buckowens
09-22-2007, 15:41
:banana Congratulations Dawn!! What a neat feeling it must be!!!
Blissful
09-22-2007, 17:18
You all were one day ahead of Paul Bunyan and me. We saw Gandolf and another hiker at the ranger station after their descent. Fantastic!
trekkngirl
09-22-2007, 17:21
Congrats!!! I'm jealous...lol
Way to go Dawn!
What a great accomplishment, congratulations :)
Frolicking Dinosaurs
09-22-2007, 18:02
http://i16.photobucket.com/albums/b47/lowcarbscoop/cartwheel.gif
Lone Wolf
09-22-2007, 18:04
good to see you took 6 months
hopefulhiker
09-22-2007, 18:30
Way to Go!
boarstone
09-22-2007, 19:48
So glad you finished and are okay! You've accomplished a huge event in your life!
hurryinghoosier
09-22-2007, 19:53
Congrads. I envy you. I plan to thru in 09 and read all I can about the trail. I have looked at all your pictures and have read about 1/2 your trail journal entries. I am wondering what type of phone you carried on the trail to make the entries to your trail journal. What type of camera?
halftime
09-22-2007, 23:10
Congratulations!
brotheral
09-23-2007, 06:26
Congratulations Dawn !! I read some of your Journal & took a look at the photos...I'll have to go back to them later... What an accomplishment....
BrotherAL
Congratulations on completing your hike.
Tom
Thanks everyone! Hey, Neighbor Dave, you should have joined us at the VFTT gathering this weekend.
L. Wolf...yeah, I slowed it down and really enjoyed my time out there.
Congrads. I envy you. I plan to thru in 09 and read all I can about the trail. I have looked at all your pictures and have read about 1/2 your trail journal entries. I am wondering what type of phone you carried on the trail to make the entries to your trail journal. What type of camera?
I have a Treo 650 which is big for a phone, but it is also a PDA so I have all of my contact information in it (including some hostels and hiker services) and it has access to the web for updating my journal. I could update my journal in my tent without bothering anyone else. It was nice not to have to wait in line for Internet access at a lot of places. I had pockets of areas where I didn't have a lot of signal though and a few weeks where I didn't make any updates. I could have used my phone for pictures, but I didn't. I used a Canon PowerShot SD 600 (ELPH). It's nice and small and seems to take pretty good pictures considering I'm not the greatest photographer.
hurryinghoosier
09-23-2007, 13:16
Thanks for the info
Again Congrads.
I slowed it down and really enjoyed my time out there.
O.D. Coyote style. That's excellent. :D
So you started mid-March. How was the weather for you the first few weeks of your hike?
Rain Man
09-23-2007, 17:03
Congrats, M&M! Yours was one of three journals I was reading at the end. You were fun to keep up with and often n inspiration!
AND you summited the same day my daughter did in '04 (and like your son, I too drove up and climbed Katahdin with my daughter).
Rain:sunMan
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warraghiyagey
09-23-2007, 17:44
So when are you plannining a SOBO? June?:)
congrats..
had to add the two periods to make it 10 characters lol
So you started mid-March. How was the weather for you the first few weeks of your hike?
The first couple of days were cold (about 22 degrees in my tent when I got up), but then we got quite a warm spell. It warmed up enough that the gnats came out. I was worried we would have a bad year for bugs. Then we got the cold snap in the Smokies and it took care of them.
Hammock Hanger
09-24-2007, 08:09
Congrats....:)
Awesome. I am so happy for you. I hope to be completing a thru hike in 2008. You give me hope, as I too will be 50. Congradulations!
Jim Adams
09-24-2007, 08:44
nice! congrats...your life will never be the same and you will be better for it.
geek
Chicken Feathers
10-01-2007, 21:37
congratulations you don't know me but who cares
Way to go! Congrats! I bet everything looks different to you now. Please, put an after hike post in your journal, to let us know how you are doing.
Cookerhiker
10-03-2007, 20:37
I met you in the 100 mile wilderness as you were approaching Abol Bridge. I was on my way to meet Scarf & Nails who also summitted (the day after you). Congrats!:)
Thanks everyone. So how do you deal with the feeling of such sadness of having it all be done????? I feel such an ache of it all being over.
The Weasel
10-05-2007, 15:30
Good for you!
TW
Great Job completing your hike !!! You are awesome !!!
Creek Dancer
10-08-2007, 15:54
Very very cool. Congratulations!
1/4 moon
10-09-2007, 21:41
Hey M&M congratulations.
Congrats. Hey, you've got me thinking of that song that Emmylou Harris covers so well, "Quarter Moon in a Ten Cent Town." :)
I'm glad you had such a good time and completed the journey you wanted to complete. :banana
maxNcathy
10-31-2007, 09:18
Way to GO, Dawn.
I enjoy reading your journals and looking at your pictures.
Could you please make a feew observations about gear needs to help those planning to hike.
Take good care,
Sandalwood