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I used to, but they are actually surprisingly heavy (up to 4 pounds) and thus I stopped carrying it on long-distance hikes. You run into fewer and fewer taun-tauns on the trail these days, too. (I...

I learned how to do that from the Empire Strikes Back! Except it wasn't a camel that was used.

I didn't do the approach trail on my 2004 thru-hike. I am doing it this year. Not because I feel guilty about skipping it last time, I'm just curious to see what it is like.

They both are fun. But what you post while drunk leaves incremenating evidence for all to see.

PWD can be a dangerous thing.

There are places on the AT (White Mountains, 100-mile wilderness) that I would certainly consider to have the same potential for danger as the Gila (I really don't know how often the Gila gets a...

Of course I wish I could just go back and delete posts when I actually read a thread and see what I posted as already been said by at least one previous person.

All I can think of when I see this thread title is:

"Don't ask what your AT has done for you, ask what you can do for your AT"

This year all the AT has done for me is make it extremely...

The shires tarp tents with sewn-in floors offer as much bug protection as any tent you might use. Really the only difference is in the amount of condensation you can end up with IMO. But if the...

Whoops I see Frolicking Dinosaurs already posted the link.

It's pretty incredible that he made it. 20 below temps and waist deep snow.

http://www.thedailytimes.com/article/20071220/NEWS/32349914

Hiker’s close call

By Rick Laney
of The Daily Times...

Some of them more than others.:banana

I haven't hiked with very many people who quit. I really haven't, but the percentages of people who finish thru-hikes on the PCT and CDT is much higher than the AT. The only people who I spent a lot...

Hmmm, I must be hiking with the right people then. I'd say close to 100-percent of the people I have thru hiked with have had a wonderful time and the small periods of "miserableness" were far...

Stubborness and the ability to be flexible.

I swim in any body of water deep enough to swim in, making the assumption that anything deep enough for me to swim in has enough volume that my nominal contamination will have no impact. Anything too...

I nominate One Gallon (Bill Nedderman)

I suppose he's not an "AT" Legend since he has "only" : ) done the Appalachian Trail twice and moved on to other things. But One Gallon also also hiked the...

Since I hiked the AT through the park in 2003, I think I may have been convinced by this thread to take the BMT this time around in 2008. A chance to check out a different part of the park.

I can vouch that he did the CDT last year at the end of his calender year triple crown hike. (P.O.D., Disco, Pepper among others saw him, I think Pepper (and maybe Nacho) is the only one that hiked...

Sgt. Rock if you are starting Jan. 27 it looks like I might be chasing after you as I'm hitting the trail Feb. 12. I haven't really gotten my AT journal started for 2008, but I kept a journal for my...

Don't know if this post qualifies for a smack, but if you are thinking of getting a single-wall tent I would certainly look at a tarp tent (basically a single-wall tent) instead of the Fling. They...

Pride cometh before a fall!

I think mine are the pro version. I'd have to check. I've used them going up Whitney in October and on the passes in Glacier in June and they've worked fantastic on hard-packed ice.

I fall more often on mostly flat trail when I'm not really paying attention to what I'm doing. When I have to pick my way across rocks or sketchy parts of trail and I'm not hiking at as fast a pace I...

Bring Yak Traks for the icy spots. Lightweight and easy to take on and off. That's my plan anyway (I'm starting around Feb. 12 or so).