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26 August 2010, VT 14
The first mile of the day started out fine. However after the first mile everything went to crap. I lost all my energy. I felt like a battery that was getting ready to run out of charge. I could not keep a two mile an hour pace like I have always been able to in the past. I was barely keeping over a one mile per hour pace. I felt so drained and tired. I don't understand it. I ate a good dinner last night and had a good breakfast. I know it is not my food intake. I ...

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25 August 2010, Chateauguay Road
Today I hit the thru hiker wall. I got out and hiked today but not because I wanted to. I need to keep putting one foot in front of the other. I know if I quit now I will regret it for the rest of my life. I will finish!

I thought when I came out here I would find myself. I don't think I am any closer to that than before I started.

I came upon Thundering Falls today. I came here two years ago when mapping the reroute ...

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22 August 2010, VT 140
I decided to take a short day today. The factor in this decision was the rain. The other factor stems from the blister on my left heal that is starting to bother me again. I starting wearing a new pair of boots yesterday and that’s where the blister came from.

Not much to write about when you doing nothing but trudging along in the rain and looking forward to getting to someplace dry. That is all you think about when you’re hiking in the rain. ...

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My love of backpacking started on the rolling hills of the Green Mountains in Vermont; while I was going to college in Burlington, Vermont. It wasn't untill the spring of 1996 when I first set my feet on the AT.

Since then my last companion (WOODY) and I have hiked over large sections of the AT (from 1600 to 1400 miles on each hike). In all our years we both have spent more then three and a half years and over 10,000 miles living in the mountains of the Eastern United States. In 2005 ...

23 August 2010, VT 103
It rained all morning. I am tired of the rain. I know I should not complain. It is nothing close to the rain the thru hikers experienced in 2003. I know a couple of people that hiked in 2003 and they told me about all the rain they received that year.

Not much to say about the walking today. Just another day in the Vermont mud, hence the nick name us hikers have given the state, Vermud.

It sure was nice to go to a dry place tonight. ...