4shot
05-27-2011, 19:58
thru-hiked. My wife and I just finished a short section hike from Davenport Gap into Hot Springs, wrapping up on Wednesday (5/25). Along the way and into HS at Elmer's we met 7-8 people who said they were going to Katahdin (and not flipping).:eek: They all started mid to late April. While I ran the numbers and it is doable in purely mathematical terms, I was surprised that there was anybody on the trail that was trying to thru. Just curious, were any of y'all who finished in HS at this time (late May) during your hike?
fwiw, Max Patch and Snowbird were both as awesome (or perhaps moreso) as I remembered them to be. and I had forgotten what a 3000 ft. climb was like:(. Ran into two groups of trail maintainers along the way...NC has impeccably groomed trails. hats off to the Carolina mountain club. And, for the first time in my life, I made it to a shelter (Groundhog Creek) just beforethe thunderstorm.
fwiw, Max Patch and Snowbird were both as awesome (or perhaps moreso) as I remembered them to be. and I had forgotten what a 3000 ft. climb was like:(. Ran into two groups of trail maintainers along the way...NC has impeccably groomed trails. hats off to the Carolina mountain club. And, for the first time in my life, I made it to a shelter (Groundhog Creek) just beforethe thunderstorm.