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Does anyone have an address and/or phone number for Miss Janet? I have a Christmas card I want to send to her and I would like to talk to her as well.

Pete "Old Corpus" Hoffman

P.S. If you...

Love it or hate it (and there seems to be no in between), Bryson's book caused a huge spike in the number of thruhike starters after it was published in 1998. In 2000 there were nearly 3000...

I met Ranger Rick at the end of June 2003 in New York right at the Gate of Heaven abandoned cemetary. You have to be an AT hiker to know where that is. Heard the 87 pound story. At that point, I...

The Photon Fusion has one red LED that increases in intensity as you hold down the left side of the switch. It will stop and hold at that intensity when the switch is released. It also has six...

I have seen/heard six bears on the AT. Four of them bolted into the woods instantly upon hearing me. They heard me first.

The fifth one (at Mohician Outdoor Center) was about 50 yards away on...

I agree with the "fearing for my life" sentiment. I came down the north side of Moosilauke in the rain and there was a significant pucker factor present. One slip and you are going to take a long...

I have the same dilemma. Have to sleep on my side. Spend the night flipping from side to side.

My solution was to get the Big Agnes Horse Thief bag. This is a hoodless bag that has no down on...

Just one example of why Miss Janet is one of the very rare gems.

Last year I ended up in the ICU at Johnson City Medical Center after an encounter with a nest of yellowjackets. Without getting...

Big four totals 5 lb. 14.3 oz.

Six Moon Designs Starlite pack
Western Mountaineering Alpenlite bag
3/4 Z-Rest
Wanderlust Gear Nomad Lite tent

Includes all stuff sacks, tent stakes, cords....

I used a Big Agnes Horse Thief with the uninsulated Air Core mattress on the AT in '03. The bag is rated at 35 deg. F. When I originally tested at home (Corpus Christi) it was fine at this...

Sorry, some sort of computer glitch wouldn't let me add more to the previous message.

I packed up in the morning. I had felt all right, snug and warm in the tent, just too pain killers for the...

Since I am the subject of this thread, I thought that I would provide some more details and answer some of the questions asked and implied by the discussion. To fill in the who, what, where, when as...

Actually the 82 thousand is the northbound count, I think. I know that Blaze (nee Gary Monk AT'02) counted more than 80 thousand. Can't find the AT News that had the article on him. That includes...

Just finished reading the National Geographic article and the maps. They've done a very nice job. Looks like someone did their research, fact-checking and actually interviewed people, rather than...

I have a Big Agnes Horse Thief bag with the matching mummy air mattress. It is rated for 35 degrees F. I used it on the AT for four months last year.

When I tested it out in the back yard,...

Caratunk House is closed for this year. Paul "One Braid" Fuller, the propriator/hiker/all_around_good_guy, is hiking the PCT this year. He talked about doing so last year, when I stayed there and...

GI problems after a town visit are probably due to someone elses poor hygiene.
According to Meuser's book, even the feared giardia probably comes from other people.

Pete Hoffman

Just weighed my stuff on a very good scale. Actual weights, not advertised weights.

Pack - LWgear pound plus pack with deluxe hip belt - 32 oz.
Bag - Big Agnes Horse Thief regular length ...

On my partial thruhike this year, I clocked 123 days. 70 nights were in shelters, 6 nights under tarp/tent, and the rest were in motels, hostels and houses. So I answered more than 80% of those...

I too was worried about Lyme disease and the ticks that carry it on my four month, 1300+ mile AT hike this year. I wore long pants, tucked pants into socks and shirt into pants until well up into...

I seem to recall that one or more of the shelters in northern VA/WV are reported to have resident copperheads at the shelter site.
Does anyone know what locations those are?
Thanks. Pete...

brian,

Don't know if you are still going and exactly when. However, this morning on Mt. Washington the weather report is blowing snow and freezing fog. The temperature is -9 deg F. The wind is...

If you are going to be in the Whites for 20 days in mid- or even late April, you should really look at the website www.mountwashington.org/weather.

Do you have enough stuff to be out in 25 deg F...

There are two guys on trailjournals.com named Bono and Rocket. One started 12/28 and the other on 1/2. They seem to be in Erwin and northward.
I assume the east coast snowstorm has stopped...

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Good point about the water condition. The back of the Aqua Mira package says that if the water is very cold or turbid that the water should be treated for 30 minutes before drinking...