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Has the burn actually reached the AT, or is the closure just due to smoke?

In the last day or two someone posted a link to a real time picture of Katahdin. Now I can't find the post. Help

I've always had a little trouble believing that over half of venomous snakebites are "dry" bites too. I'm not sure if I've ever heard 80% before.
In my neck of the woods copperheads are rare and...

As far as killing snakes goes.....
A lot of people -even some Conservation Officers - are unaware that these days most states afford snakes the same protection afforded other wildlife. I have heard...

No idea of when exactly - probably some time before my tenth birthday - but it would have had to be at New Found gap. It would be several more years before I actually knew the AT existed

Most of the time I will be hiking in shorts, well, actually swim trunks. For summer I will have a pair of silk long johns for under the trunks if there is a need for them, and these will be replaced...

I hope to hold overnights in town to a bare minimum. Although money is part of the picture, time is as well. I would like to have as few zero days as possible.
The hope is to stay overnight in...

I started to post this in the "jeans" thread but decided it is really a different subject.
Of all the gear decisions I've made in the past several months, the hardest, and the one that I am really...

I have to admit that I have made no attempt to read all the posts in all the bear threads, so I apologize if this has already been covered.
My first long hike on the AT was 1975. I was through GSMNP...

I think field stripping came out of the desire to make military installations look as spiffy as possible. As a life-long non-smoker, it always galled me that I had to walk around picking up other...

My first (fleeting) thought of hiking the AT was when I saw a path at the start of the paved walkway to the summit of Clingmans Dome in the late sixties. A sign there said something about the...

Thanks for that little bit of information. It never would have occurred to me. The tech-ignorant thing again. Since all my previous phones simply showed bars instead of actual percent I charged them...

YEE HAW !!!!!
I just installed Word and discovered a feature that should make trail journals faster and easier.
Dictation.
Sure, I have to speak slowly - but it's still faster than I can type....

Yesterday I got an IPhone. So far so good. The initial trial, a short walk on a trail near Brookville lake drained the battery quite a bit, but that was because I forgot about (and how to) closing...

You need to understand that you are addressing a tech-ignorant dinosaur.
By battery charger, do you mean a device that also needs to be charged to charge the phone - like a KC-135 fueling a B-52, or...

Cell phones had been available for years before I finally got one. I have yet to use the one I have for ANYTHING but voice communication. Now, as the time draws nearer to take off on my first hike of...

I haven't flown to a hike in a long time - since I was using an X frame Kelty, but I just checked the pack as baggage. Even the wood walking staff made the trip okay.

Let's see. Pond. Blue Ridge Parkway. Haunted.
If you don't know which shelter it is from that, you haven't read very many of the ghost threads. I think it has even rated a feature article in...

There are a lot of people who never venture far from the road.
Of those who do, many will take short hikes of a few hours duration from a parking area to specific location and then back to their...

Is it still the same basic CCC log shelter though? I probably haven't been there for five years. I think the only renovation open to the Rock Gap shelter will probably be what was done at Carter Gap....

The part that is crushed is/was a kind of lean-to that was added on to the original shelter years after it was built. The shelter sits downhill within sight of the AT on mostly sloping ground that...

So did I.
I also use the Soloist. Everything, the stove, (alcohol) windscreen, pot stand, (homemade from hardware cloth) plastic cup out of an old Boy Scout mess kit and the plastic bowl that came...

I've thought a lot about coming up with some sort of trail name. The top contender is Deaf Man Walking, with Dinosaur, a reference to my age and some methods of doing things, a close second. Elwood,...

I'm planning on my entire trip to and from the trail being by train and bus.
The closest Amtrak train is Portland. My plans involve getting to either Charlottesville, waiting a day, and catching 51...

The main reason for taking the long hike I'm planning for this summer is to fill gaps where I missed white blazes. Of course, I did miss quite a few of them. On my first attempt at a thru hike I was...