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    nice to hear your hammock set up worked for you. what did you use to start out your thru? why did you not use you hammock to start? any advise you can give other hangers who want to hang the whole trail start to finish? i live not to far from you (pottstown,pa.) would love to pick your brain!

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    Yes, I would love to hear some pointers. I'm planning an April 6 start and intend to use the hammock the whole way.
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    My 2008 Trail Journal of the BMT/AT

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    Sarge, you hiking in 2007?

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    Nice photo!

    Must have been a heck of a slide show...

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    Quote Originally Posted by Topcat View Post
    Sarge, you hiking in 2007?
    No, I get back home around the end of Feburary or begining of March 2007. Not enough time to get retirement done right. I'll get back and start the Army retirement process and do shake down hikes in 2007. I plan to start my thru-hike April 6, 2008. I plan to start at Springer, hang a left on the BMT for about 287 miles, then get back on the AT at Davenport Gap and take it the rest of the way to Mount Katahdin. I'm figuring on 5 months, then get a job
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    ummm hey SGT Rock - if you start at Springer summit then you would hang a right onto the BMT ;-)

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    Left, right - whatever it takes. I was thinking more in general terms, most of the start of the BMT is West of the AT.
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    BMT Thru-Hikers' Guide
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    I could have started with my hammock, I just never really tested it in temps below 35 deg. and just wanted to be safe. I started with a solo tarptent and a JRB old rag quilt and was very toasty at night but there was a night or two I had to bundle up to go to bed. Best of luck and if ya got any questions feel free!
    :datz May the four winds blow me safely to Maine.

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    Cheezewiz, hey did you carry a pad at all? could of you used your nest and quilt combo to start end of march in your hammock? was there anywhere that you could not of used your hammock or felt you had to go to ground or shelter? what size tarp did you use? thanks for putting up with these questions. i'm sure that alot of hikers are wondering the same questions. you are an inspiration to all the hammockers out here!!

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    Sarge, that sounds like a plan. Right now i am looking at 2010-2011.

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    Congrats on your thru hike, and engagement..what a neat way to do it! Also thank you thank you thank you for your inspiring pics!
    "Not all who wander are lost." -J.R.R. Tolkien

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    Default wow that photo show is amazing cheese whize

    Hey Cheese whiz,

    I checked out that photo show..your pictures and the mustic and how things kind of zoomed in and out.

    So I need to know

    1) what digital camera did you use to take the pictures?

    2) how does one produce this? is there some computer program one could use? This is really neat.

    3) I am also wondering how you finished a week behind me when you started out hiking so much ahead of me? many zero days?

    DavidNH

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    Cool slide shows. You have an excellent eye for detail. Thanks for sharing!
    "Be good and you will be lonesome" M. Twain

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    Between the dawn and the dark of night,
    And if you go no one may follow,
    That path is for your steps alone

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    Hey Cheesewhiz, I never met you on the trail, but we are neighbors; I live in West Chester. I saw your picture in the paper this morning, very cool article.

    Glo-worm

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    Oh great. . . a new troll. . . .

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    Quote Originally Posted by warraghiyagey View Post
    Oh great. . . a new troll. . . .
    nah, he just finished a hike and is getting drunk.....like most of us.

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    Quote Originally Posted by saimyoji View Post
    nah, he just finished a hike and is getting drunk.....like most of us.
    well, now these posts don't really make sense do they?

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