Greetings from Atlanta, y'all. :-) This past summer, starting in July, we (hubby and I...and our dog) started doing weekly day hikes. This spring/early summer (once we've finished acquiring All The Things), we are going to be doing our first overnight backpacking weekend trips. So far, we've done two day hikes on the AT... Woody Gap to Gooch Gap & back again, and Neel Gap to Blood Mountain Shelter & back again. I've absolutely fallen in love with the AT. We are planning to - either in June for our anniversary, or the first week of September - spend an entire week on the AT...start at Springer Mountain and see how far we can go...get a shuttle back. That's about the extent of our "plan" for now...would welcome any advice, input, suggestions, etc.

Glad to be here... and Happy Thanksgiving, everyone!