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Thanks for the information. That's about what I suspected. It's always nice to hear from hikers who have been there.

Planning to hike this stretch soon and wondered about the reliable water I would find. Thanks!

My husband and I are looking forward to the dinner. Count us in!
"Happy" when hiking. aka hwh

Trail Name -Happy
Direction -NoBo
Estimated Start Date -April 7
Approach Trail -no

Thank you all so much! What a wonderful bunch of encouraging people you are. I am planning to begin my hike on or about April 7. Now I am going to get seriously busy getting ready. We will see...

Thanks so much everyone. I really appreciate all the responses. Hope to see some of you on the trail before long. May just have consider myself a hiker and see if the thru part works out. My...

I am a 67 year old lady who is 5 feet tall. I am in good health and pretty strong. I would really like to know if it is actually possible for someone my size to make it up and over the rock...

Hi Rainman,

My husband and I look forward to joining everyone for dinner. It will be great to meet such a lively bunch of hikers!

hwh

Thanks for posting this link. Looks very good. I like that it's so targeted to backpacking.
HWH

Thanks, I really appreciate all your replies. I especially appreciated the fact that nobody at all discouraged me from hitting the trail. Some of my friends have looked at me very strangely and...

This has been very helpful. I'll continue to read all the replies and keep thinking. Such good ideas here.
HWH

Thanks so much for the quick responses! Very interesting comments. It's good to know more about SW VA. I had thought about starting at Dickey Gap. I realized that there are some steep climbs in...

I am an older woman planning to hike the AT starting April 1, 2011. At this time I am thinking it might be wise to start just north of Damascus, hike to Katahdin, then return to my starting point...