ATforum was the original site before whiteblaze. way back like a year ago, aah the memories.
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ATforum was the original site before whiteblaze. way back like a year ago, aah the memories.
old rail grades also tend to be blazed in yellow, which is why i get to yellow blaze to school every morning and still feel like im on the trail
its good to hear from you, glad to see you back on the forum.
i liked the beard, i recently shaved mine too so i know how you must feel.
yeah, and suprisingly, from part of my town you can see the New York skyline.
Our school mascot is the Hillbilly, yep thats right were the hillbillies. so if ya ever meet me on the trail then youve met a real genuine hillbilly. im sure there are some good ol yokels up in some...
Two summers back hiking in SNP we took a side trail down to a parking lot to resuply, there was a fork in the trail and we were suposed to take the left trail and head north. so we did. about an hour...
yep, fall is fast aproaching. days are cooler, which is nice because with fall comes marching band once again, and school starts thursday. no more am i free to wander as i please, atleast summer will...
thank you, that is exactly what i was looking for. i must have just missed it. thank you very much.
on a happy note my test came back and i am negative for Lyme so thats good.
i search through my back issues and couldnt find it, so either i missed it, i heard it somewhere else, or am just losing it, all are quite possible explinations. im pretty sure it attracks both a...
im going to have to get back to you as to which sex it attracts, i saw it listed in one of my magazines, i believe it was in backpacker, but ill check latter.
eitherway it makes me wonder how we...
Kerosene
I sure hope you dont stay home! i hope you enjoy your hike and arnt bothered by any ticks, however it seems that at that temperature they might be gone for the season.
and actualy...
Ive had good luck by lining my entire pack with a trash bag and not using a stuff sack but instead stuffing the sleeping bag into the botom of the pack with some dry clothes in the foot area. i find...
i also think that things will return to normal when the current thruhikers return to the site and begin posting their thoughts again.
A friend of mine was recently forced to hitch hike when a mutual friend of ours severly sprained his ankle, car after car passed but she finally managed to get a ride on the back of a motorcycle,...
I recently returned from a two week hike in SNP and was amazed at the large number of ticks encountered on the trip. by the end of the two weeks i had pulled fourty eight ticks off of my body, i only...
I believe i was wrong in my suposition that the AT in the SNP is a good aproximation of the rest of the trail, it was a baseless assumption, i do not have enough experiance in other parts of the...
I think it might be best to return to the topic of this thread. There are threads already established in which firearms are discussed. I certainly encourage anyone interested in further discussion of...
SNP has some of the best marked trails and easiest acess to resuply areas and roads to get you to resuply points as ive found anywhere. the trails are beautiful and are a good aproximation of the AT...
congradulations, way to go A-Train. cant wait to be there myself
ive tried both now, i personally dont mind the taste of iodine, so i always enjoyed polar pure. however on the trip i just returned from i tried out filtering, using the katadyn and another filter,...
this last week i carried a small key id found on the ground in a little town i was passing though out in west virginia, it was lashed to my pack and seemed to have brought me good luck and good...
Have a wonderful time out there, its a great park, ill be down that way next week for two weeks, little early to catch you on the trail im affraid. just make sure you get a backcountry camping permit...
i just started "Walking With Spring" last night and finished thismorning. i couldnt put it down, it was really amazing to read such an inspiring story. its simple, basically a trail journal, but it...
Shenandoah National Park is always a nice place, good for somone new to the AT. For the past several years ive hiked parts of the park around then end of july early august, and have had little...
thats a rather depressing prospect, especially to somone like me who will only be 64 in 2050 and still quite able to hike the trail, well i hope so anyway. and i hope that it will still be there for...