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    Smile 2009 Thru-Hike Registry

    The Class of 2009 Forum is open, so I will start working on the Class of 2009 spreadsheet. Time to make your plans official by registering (no turning back now).

    Trail Name
    Direction
    Estimated Start Date
    Approach Trail - yes or no
    any additional info that you want the world to know

    If anything changes, please update via a reply to this thread.

    Good Luck everyone and enjoy the planning process...

    See you on the trail (next year),
    mt squid

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    See you at Springer, Winter 09' Chance09's Avatar
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    Talking No turning back now

    Trail Name: AT
    Direction: Nobo
    Estimated Start Date: March 5th
    Approach Trail - of course

    I'm debating winning the lottery to help pay for my thru hike . When i do, let me know if i can help anyone else out.

    Anyone else feel like 2009 is along way away?
    AT - Georgia to Maine '09
    PCT - Mexico to Canada '10
    CDT - Canada to Mexico '11


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    Trail Name: Crab Cake
    Direction: Nobo
    Estimated Start Date: mid ->late March
    Approach Trail - yes

    I'm officially comitted, can't wait to meet everyone.

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    Trail Name: Hoosier Ben
    Direction: Nobo
    Estimated Start Date: Mar 17
    Approach Trail: Yes

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    Quote Originally Posted by Chance09 View Post
    Trail Name: AT
    Lol kudos to me for not thinking that one thru.

    Trail name = Chance
    AT - Georgia to Maine '09
    PCT - Mexico to Canada '10
    CDT - Canada to Mexico '11


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    Trail Name: TBD
    Direction: SOBO
    Estimated Start Date: June 1
    Approach Trail: Yes

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    Default Count me in...

    Trail Name: MinnesotaSmith
    Direction NOBO; trying for straight shot/end-to-end this time
    Estimated Start Date Feb. 14th @ Amicalola
    Approach Trail - Y/N Yes
    any additional info Doing Pinhoti first; est. hitting Sylacauga 12/31/08

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    Trail Name: TBD
    Direction: Probable Flip - CT to ME ... NY to GA
    Start Date: June 1
    Approach Trail: N/A except Springer approach as exit trail

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    Trail Name: TBD
    Direction: NOBO
    Estimated Start Date: March 20
    Approach Trail: Yes

    I'm committing and nervous as H#$L. Anyone here going a second time that can offer some good advice?

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    Default 2009

    Presently planning a 2009 GA->ME thru hike. I have sectioned hiked approx 1100 miles of the trail with the most recent being last year. Last year I hiked approx 475 miles of it with my brother, Iceman(GA -> ME thru hiker 2007). We grew up right near the trail and we had always talked about thru hiking it. Last year was the best opportunity for him and unfortunately the worst time for me. So I am looking to 2009 to be my opportunity.

    2009 is NOT that far off
    so now is the time to start the plans and the conditioning to get ready for the task at hand.

    Trail Name: Montana Mac
    Direction: NOBO
    Start Date: 03-04-09
    Approach Trail: Y
    "Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed, is more important than any other one thing." Abraham Lincoln (1855)


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    Default 10 years thinkin an plannin.....

    Trail name...Due South
    Direction...NOBO
    Date...10th March 09
    Approach...not sure...perhaps the flip of a coin...??

    I have been sizing up the Appalachian Trail....
    .....and it has been me....
    .....looks like a "gloves off" bout.....
    ....as Cramer would say......Giddy-up.....!!

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    Trail Name - Drake
    Direction - NOBO
    Date - 02-01-09
    Approach Trail - wouldn't be the same without it...

    Gonna be updating an online trail journal the whole time, and hopefully putting out a photo-journal after the fact. WWW.GA-ME09.com

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    Default Oh yeah!

    Trail Name: sneaker (or what ever name I get tagged with)
    Direction: NOBO
    Estimated Start Date: 03/15/09
    Approach Trail: Yes
    Been planning this since 12/07

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    Trail Name: TBD
    Direction: NOBO
    Estmated Start Date: 3/22/2009
    Approach Trail: Yes

    This thru-hike has been on my calendar for years and is now fast approaching. Unfortunately it is not yet on my wife's calendar, so whether or not it is really going to happen is still in doubt a bit. This will be resolved one way or the other soon. Sigh...

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    Trail Name: Big Sky
    Direction: NOBO
    Estimated Start Date: March 1, 2009
    Approach Trail: Oh yeah

    I can't wait as I've been wanting to do this since I was about 15. Quitting my job 6 months earlier than planned before going back to school will be easy since I've wanted to quit since I started, and my boyfriend is taking a leave of absence (he can register himself). I can't believe I'm finally going to do this...2009 seems like it will never get here.

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    Trail name: TBD
    Direction: NOBO
    Estimated start date: March 1st 09
    Approach trail: yup

    Wish me luck! "why are you doing this? they asked. Its like trying to explain the color purple to a blind person. The feeling was so sublime, so serene, so personal. In the woods, i found hope, peace, healing; no matter how sour my mood, the woods seemed always to soothe me, resurrect sagging spirits. In the woods, there was a sense of being at home, of being where I ought to have been all along." -david brill, as far as the eye can see

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    Trail Name: Big Dazzy
    Direction: Nobo
    Estimated Start Date: March 30th
    Approach Trail - Yep....

    See ya out there!
    I't an't stupid, untill you say its stupid, When you belive its stupid, It's probaly not worth mentioning! DU '08.

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    Trail name: Braceman or whatever fits
    Direction: NOBO
    Estimated start date: 3/10/09
    Approach trail: More than likely

    Helen Keller: Life is an adventure or it is nothing at all. Let the adventure begin

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    Trail name: Traceless (not my invention, but it stuck)
    Direction: NOBO!
    Date: hmm. either April or March
    Approachrobably

    I'm almost definately doing the thru in 2009, but if I end up as a camp counselor, it'll be post-ponned until 2010.

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    Default Fools rush in where angels fear to tread

    Trail Name: Route 66
    Direction: NOBO
    Estimated Start Date: April Fool's day, 2009
    Approach Trail: Probably

    Starting out with Bon Bon

    See: http://www.trailjournals.com/Route_66/

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