Trail Journals

[Scrum]

Whose trail journals are you following this year. Any nominations yet for 2015 awards for best written, funniest, most addictive?

[Trainguy]

Been reading Airlock, Trail Pilgrim (because he had hundreds of posts before he set foot on the trail...wanted to see how he would do...doing just fine), J, and Bon Bon. Over on the PCT I'm reading Chin Music.

[ExNihilo]

I've been really enjoying Lucky and PapaAl.

[Chive]

Been following a few that are pretty good:

Outlier: http://www.trailjournals.com/entry.cfm?id=488675 Female hiker, good detail in her posts
Lucky: http://www.trailjournals.com/entry.cfm?id=488279 Older gentleman - upbeat and humorous
Boomer: https://wanderingboomer.wordpress.com Lots of good pictures

[Wanderingventurer]

I have been enjoying Trail Pilgrim as well.

[burger]

I hate to be negative, but one of the worst things about the huge increase in the number of hikers doing online journals the last few years is that it gets really hard to find the good journals. I haven't seen a journal worth reading in 2 or 3 years now. Several years back I could easily scan through all the journals on TJ and pick out the good ones, but there are far too many now to do that.

If anyone has a suggestion for a journal that is literary-quality good (i.e. someone who varies their sentence structure, does more than just recite the day's events in chronological order, and has some wit), I would love to see it.

[Old Hiker]

Bon Bon right now, just because she's a friend of a friend and in my area. Skimmed through others, but no one stands out.

[hikernutcasey]

Someone mentioned Boomers blog and I agree it is really good.

I found this one recently and am trying to get caught up but he is a good writer and takes lots of good pics. http://www.spooner2015athike.com/

I have noticed that I seem to enjoy the blogs more than the trailjournals site. Usually they seem to be more story oriented and with more pics.

[Scrum]

I was enjoying Griswold's TJ sharing the perspective of a mom with a young child at home doing a thru hike. It looks like she has not gotten back on the trail after a planned break last month - hope to see her back on trailjournals soon.

Doppelgänger's blog has promise. I hope she keeps up the entries as she heads north. https://marwionthetrail.wordpress.com

Wired is off to another great adventure, this time on the Hayduke. http://www.walkingwithwired.com/index.html

[Trillium]

Been reading Airlock, Trail Pilgrim (because he had hundreds of posts before he set foot on the trail...wanted to see how he would do...doing just fine), J, and Bon Bon. Over on the PCT I'm reading Chin Music.

Thanks for the recommendation. Didn't know Chin is hiking the PCT this year. His pictures are great.