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I took a cell phone on two section hikes, 2001 and 2003, thinking (mistakenly) I would be able to keep in constant contact with my wife and family back home. Between Amicalola Falls and Fontanta, I...

I learned the hard way that stretching is very important. My 2003 section hike ended a week early because of a bad left knee. I went to an orthopedic (sp?) surgeon, who referred me to a physical...

Hope you bring back lots of photos and post them here at WB. Also, any tips or advice from your trip would be appreciated. My wife and I want to go in 2006 for two weeks, but not November. We want to...

Weary,

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Try a small dab of vaseline between your toes. I had the exact same blister problem you described and vaseline completely eliminated the problem. Foot powder did not work for me -- made things worse,...

Great story! Thanks for pointing it out. Here's a summary from the couple's JMT journal (John Muir Trail).

Their baby (Roo) was born in July 2003. The family took Roo on her first backpacking trip...

LOL :jump

Well, on that same subject, life begins when the kids move out and the wife gets a hysterectomy... :banana

An assumption I am making about this couple is that no way would they make it the wholeway. I'm giving them the benefit of the doubt that they would not actually push themselves as hard as it would...

hope you don't mind being asked this, but could you explain why? What is the attraction? Just curious because I saw someone hiking the AT barefoot. It was a wet, cold, miserable day, too. But he...

Thanks! Actually, more than I was expecting... :)

Yes, I think they were discussed on this website. Is this The Family From The North? If so, wasn't their youngest child a 2-year-old? That is...

Sometimes telling a person that they can't do something, or that they are being ridiculous, or they are poor parents, is the surest way to get them to ignore you. Better to give the person facts to...

Wookie -- Never said it can't be done, but that it would be tough. You do agree, don't you? And, yes, they could thru-hike for 10 months instead of 6. Would that mean leaving in early Spring in...

My wife breastfed both our daughters so I asked her opinion (Blue Jay -- IMHO she qualifies as an expert :D ). Breastfeeding was in her words "physically exhausting" and she was home, not out hiking....

Savage Llama -- I just read this from ATtroll. It's on the WB front page:

"In the past several months there has been a lot of posting that has triggered bickering and un-needed posting on the site...

Savage Llama -- According to the ATC link that you provided, the trail and a buffer zone around the trail are strongly protected. ATC is concerned about areas OUTSIDE that buffer zone. Nothing on...

Yep, we're both just speculating. No way to know yet. We'll Just have to wait and see what happens next.

Good article in the Washington Post about how CBS bungled the story. Hope this link works for you.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A31727-2004Sep18.html

Also, it appears CBS got...

Weary, you need to read the quotes again but this time without your blinders on. Either Kerry DID commit atrocities in Vietnam and he is lying now, which means he did not serve honorably, OR he did...

How about John Kerry's own words? Might they be considered "serious evidence" I wonder?

In 1971, John Kerry admitted to committing atrocities and war crimes in Vietnam in 1971. In 2001, he did so...

Savage Llama, I believe you have proven my point that Bush opponents on the left, like you, are over-hyping the roadless rule issue as a campaign gimmick in an election year to rev up the...

Savage Llama,
Maybe you and I are talking about two different roadless rules. I am referring to the rule that Clinton/Gore proposed after more than six years of doing nothing. Their administration...

So, for eight years from Jan. 1993 to Jan. 2001, this roadless rule COULD have been put into effect at anytime by the Clinton/Gore administration, but they didn't. They waited until the dying moments...

Saw one of these windmills in Nova Scotia a few weeks ago while on vacation. It's operation was quiet and the only road to it was a small dirt road. No environmental impact there. It provides all the...

Miss Janet,
Tampa and St.Pete are fine. The storm came inland much farther south about 20 miles north of Fort Myers. My family and I live in Apopka, a little town north of Orlando. We huddled around...

I've used a hiking pole to break up really hard ground before scooping out a cathole with a plastic orange trowel. Worked for me better than kicking with the heel of a boot. Also, this is just...