Hi I'm Tessa! I'm 18 and am graduating high school this June. I was accepted to UMass Amherst, but would like to take a gap year and hike the AT. I would need to start mid-february so I would be done it time to go back to school. Is anyone thinking about starting a nobo thru-hike around that time? If not, maybe we could meet up at various points along the way.