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so this wasn't the phoenix who thru-hiked in 02?

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I'm planning to hike north from Rt 4 in Vermont (the Long Trail Inn) on the Long Trail starting around May 20. I've never been there in that time of year; can anyone tell me what the blackfly...

i just wish the kilted guys would remember to "sit like a lady." too often you see far more than you'd really like to.

interesting - but i can tell you from experience that the tincan stoves hikers use in the summer make for a pretty lousy winter camping stove. i've tried mine in the winter, probably around 0 to 10...

i read a ton on my thru hike. i started out toting "V" by Thomas Pynchon. It's a big fat book, and I thought it would occupy me for a while. Which it did. (I finished it in Atkins). But at about 600...

More power to 'em. I always like to read what others write about their trail experiences. Though full disclosure in order; I come from the dark side. I used to be a journalist and wrote a series of...

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Has anyone here hiked both the John Muir Trail and the Colorado Trail? I have like 3 or 4 weeks to hike in August and early September, and i'm not sure which to do. Anyone got any...

Hi - Does anyone know of a place i could stay near Grafton Notch Maine from Dec 22 to Jan 20? Price negotiable! I'm going to be working at the Sunday River ski area in Bethel (and skiing camping and...

after summitting katahdin, i was able to hitch all the way to Augusta that afternoon, and got the bus all the way to boston by that evening!

one of the great zen-like moments I had on my thru hike was when i came to the realization that cheese really doesnt need to be refrigerated. i think it's just a rumor foisted upon us by refrigerator...

actually, beer paste might be good on its own. kinda like those "goo" packs people eat for energy

Hi Yeti!
one nice morning in '02, i set out for the day up a hill somewhere in mid-Maine, the sun was shining and all was great. I said to myself "i love thru-hiking." whne i get to K i'm going to...

i got into homebrewing about 2 years before my thru hike.

then, shortly before my thru hike i had involved conversations with a friend who's a chemist at the Mass. Institute of Technology, who,...

it's not like an empty beer can weighs that much . I say pack canned beer ... then when you drink 'em you'll have very little weight
mariachi

OK - two more.
There was a guy named Huck Finn I met in north Georgia/Southern NC for about a week or so in 2002. He truly distinguished himself by his ineptitude. The only food he carried was a...

i'm blanking on the name of it, but what's the shelter about 4 or 5 miles south of bear mountain new york? I think it's underrated; on my hike, few thru hikers bothered going there because it was...

dont want to be shouted down by coffee snobs, but the coffee that comes in tea bags (forget which company makes it) was essential to my thru hike - if a bit pricy.

it was easier to deal with than...

that book started out really good - the inept friend was hilarious. Then the friend quits the hike and it got less good. Then Bryson quits the hike and you've still got half a book to read, about him...

i was just offered a summer job (i'm a law student) i think based on hiking. Guy interviewed me on the phone and spent about 45 minutes of our one-hour interview talking about hiking. i mentioned the...

p-head - really dont worry about it.

scouts dont usually sleep in shelters anyway. they've lugged those tents all that way and they're usually pretty excited to set them up and sleep in them

i thought caratunk house was great. i cant remember which guy was which, but they were both OK with me. One of them gave me a haircut (though i think he charged me three bucks or so)

In 02 there was a big time cold snap the week before memorial day. I remember it well, because I was shivering thru the nights, what with my 45 degree sleeping bag and temps in the 20s in Shenandoah...

just wasted a solid half hour reading all the posts about mooning over 2003 (do a search on mooning,cog and washington). I had no idea that mooning was so contentious!

i hereby plant my flag with...

hmm... come to think of it, i did see someone i knew from my '02 thru hike at '03 Trail Days with a 'souvenir' of her hike!

seven's pretty good. i was with a group that had five mooners ... there was a sixth with us but he refused to participate; apparently he'd mooned a school bus when he was 8 years old and gotten in a...