Any NOBOers left in Georgia? I am sectioning from Unicoi to Dicks Creek end of this coming week. Wondering if I will be all alone or if there will be some NOBOers flying by my slow a$$.
I hope he makes it. If anyone else sees him please post.Leap is in Kent, CT now. Looking like he'll finish on schedule! There are a few others ahead of him still. Trek? And I don't know who else.
I was doing the NJ section this week and ran into torchy flambou, I think she started with the name amazon woman till she cought herself on fire with the alc. stove. But anyway she is in NY now and banging out mid twenty's so far. I think she started late Jan.
Will Trek be passed again in the homestretch?Originally Posted by skinny minnie
Who will be the first northbounder to finish this year?
Leap or Trek?
Stay tuned as the drama unfolds.
Hahahaha - yeah, that makes me smile. The whole first to finish thing... I just don't get it
Don H - I can keep you posted... I'm his girlfriend, so I should know! He'll definitely finish. He's determined - numb feet, blisters, and all. I might get a chance to hike with him in NH in two weeks. I hope.
(And just in case... I should clarify that Leap has no interest in who finishes first - he just has a wedding to attend/a deadline to start biking across the country in June!)
Skinny,
Thanks, he seems like a guy with a good heart and boy can he eat! Do you want to plug the charity coast to coast bike ride he's doing after his hike? I tried to find the website but wasn't sure which ride it was.
No, thank you, for feeding him! And yes, he is a great guy (although I'm biased)... and he has quite a healthy appetite!
Sure, it's: www.coast2coastcycle.org
I believe I heard a heard a vague plan about averaging 100 miles a day... but you'll have to check back once they start to see how that goes. Knowing him, I wouldn't doubt it, though!
Anyway, 100% of the money that is raised is going to the Children's Hunger Fund. Which is a great charity that is particularly relevant now, in light of the cost of rice almost doubling for poorer countries within the past few weeks, not to mention recent food riots, protests, and shortages.
Please feel free to check it out.
met 'tabasco' at dick's dome on 4/15, told me he started on 1/10...and had been cold a few times. met 'stormennorm' and 'waterbear' at manassass gap 4/16...4/22 met 'hammer and nail' at big meadows,'backwoods' and friend at bearfence hut...4/23 met 'master alex' and others at high top hut. 4/25 met 'brake man' and 'grasshopper' north of calf mountain. 4/26 met 'bad hummus' and 'jax the mummified engineer' at the waynesboro ymca...and i met whiteblazer 'hog on ice' at the high top hut, he had cut firewood and stayed well after dark telling jokes and stories around the fire with us.
At Iron Mountain Gap this morning:
Vachon
Twinkle Toes
Another maintenance triptoday, this time South of Iron Mountain Gap. 'Kincora' brought the following hikers:
Cuatro
Bear Paw
Fire Socks
Butterfly Moon and Luna (dog)
White Lightning
Wind Jammer
See you on the trail,
mt squid
Met Southside at the Front Royal McDonalds yesterday. Did not have a chance to talk as husband was hightailing it out of there.
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know one seen Team hollywood, Nolan and Carlie or Sherpa Dan yet?
BEAS
"Maintain a Rigid State of Maximum Flexibility"
Half Elvis (4/2)
Hoover
Jitterbug
Hot Tang
Dirt
Repack (4/1)
Mountian Mic (4/2)
Etienne (4/2)
South Paw
The Colonel - My Trailjournal - (gazerstar WB)
Diner (section)
Mary (section)
There were several others swimmingbut I didn't catch their names.
At Watauga Lake:
Wind Jammer (4/30)
Malmut
See you on the trail,
mt squid
Well I am horrible with names in just passing and if I don't write them down, I just forget them anyway. But FYI. I met a few on my section hike this week. So there are still some NOBOs in Georgia. First crew was a couple that stayed with me at Sassafras Gap Thursday night. The lady was suffering from bad knees so they were getting late starts and only making 10 or 11 miles a day. They had been out 9 days I think they said. I never saw them again yesterday and they said they were pulling off at Cloud 9 due to the thunderstorms due in today. Another NOBOer passed me just north of Kelly Knob, very young guy, I saw him hitching a ride into Hiawassee at Dicks Creek yesterday just after lunch. Then I rode into Cloud 9 myself with a brother/sister duo yesterday. The sister was calling her brother Stalker because he hiked so close to her. He said their dad told him to look out for her. She told me her trail name, but I forgot it. Then there was a nice guy from Boston at Cloud 9 with his dog. He is a newbie hiker and just decided he wanted to do the trail. I think he said he had been dubbed snakegripper because he had caught some sort of snake and was cooking it for supper on night on the trail.
Generally speaking, how many hikers are in the shelters this time of year?
I didn't stay in any shelters, but I understand there were like 15 or 16 people at Tray Thursday night. Don't know how many stayed in the shelter though.
Hiked out to Iron Mountain Shelter today. Felt a few drops of rain, but not too bad. At various points between the shelter and TN91, saw the following hikers:
Catfish
Carolyn (section)
Big Cranky (section)
Rog (section)
Eli (section)
Snow Plow
August
Mary Poppins
Spad (section)
Clothes Line
White Lightning
Peepers
Fire Socks
Butterfly Moon and Luna (dog)
NY Minute
James (section)
See you on the trail,
mt squid
On my hike this w/e from Rockfish Gap to Maupin Field I saw the following thru-hikers:
Fri, 5-2
- 18:00 - Rockfish Gap
- Cujo(sp?) from ME
- Start - TN
- 19:30 - Wolfe shelter
- Thud and Max (dog) - MI
- Crazylegs - ?
Sat, 5-3
- between Wolfe Shelter and Reed's Gap
- twin brothers, Josh & Jeremy - TN
- Cookie - AR
- Kirby - ME
- Whiplash - GA
- Applecore - MA
- Maupin Field Shelter
- Hardbound - VA
N.j.
I talked to CheezeWhiz and tells me that he and Keystone met a northbounder near Delaware Water Gap last week! She better slow down. We still have a few feet of snow in our Mountains
Heck there are NoBos that are already into Ct and possibly into Mass by now with the type of miles they have been doing.
i was with keystone and whiz last week, the nobo gal said she is aiming to be in NH by the 11th of May.
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