2014 Thru-Hike Registry

[None yet]

NoBo on April 3 IF that flight is t canceled, too.

[Coug]

Trail Name: Coug
Direction: NOBO
Start date: 4/8/14
Approach trail: No
Additional Info: Maine or bust!

[Canute600]

Trail Name: Gravity
Direction: SOBO
Start date: 6/28/14
Approach trail: No choice here!
Additional Info: Did 600 miles in 2005, hoping to do the whole thing this time around!

[OutdoorsMan]

I am responding for my son (Paragon on WB).

Trail Name: Littlefoot
Direction:NOBO
Started: March 23, 2014
Approach Trail: Yes

Today he arrived in Nantahala

[tobiwae]

Trail name: none yet
Direction: NOBO
Est. start date: April 28, 2014
Approach trail: Yes

[amervin]

edit: forgot to change things up on here. Will be hitting the trail April 21. Aiming to complete the damn thang in approx. 100 days. Yeehaww.

[sk8sn0surf]

Trail Name: None yet
Direction: NoBo
Estimated Start Date: 4/15
Approach Trail - yes

[Lambarrassment]

Trail Name: None yet
Direction: NOBO
Start Date: April 30
Approach Trail: No

Let's see how many of you I can catch!

[12TH Man]

Trail Name: Aleve
Direction: NOBO
Start Date: Feb 17? 2014
Approach Trail: My knees say no.

I had to amend my start year to 2015. Last November my GP ordered chest x-rays. then CT, then PET. Specialist from UVa told me last week that I have very early lung cancer. Surreal. I hiked Old Rag yesterday and feel fine.
Surgery on the 14th followed by radiation.
Thankfully, I've got some great friends. "Stop your whining and beat this"
Exactly what I plan on doing.
Plan on being on trail Feb 2015.

[Chicken_Scrambles]

Trail Name: don't have one yet
Direction: NOBO
Estimated Start Date: mid-April -- quitting my job after my 3 year anniversary there and leaving the city!
Approach Trail - sure!

Sadly after 8 months of planning I won't be heading out on the Trail this year... family situation at the moment requires me to be home, and that coupled with a last minute moderate ankle injury has me sidelined at the moment. But I'm adding my name to the list for 2015!


And to 12th Man -- all the best to you!! Hope your surgery and all goes well, and cheers to postponing -- not canceling -- dreams, and to hitting the Trail next year

[12TH Man]

Hi Chicken_Scrambles, Thanks for the kind thoughts. Hope all is well w/ your family and hope to see you on the trail next year.

[laegrim]

Trail Name: None Yet
Direction: NOBO
Start Date: May 1st
Approach Trail: Hopefully Not

[nickc90]

Trail Name - none yet...
Direction - NOBO
Estimated Start Date - May 19th or 20th
Approach Trail - No
Graduating college and heading out the next day with my brother. Can't wait!

[chrisschwing]

Trail Name: None yet...
Direction: SOBO!
Estimated Start Date: June 1st
Approach Trail: No

Excited and nervous!

[Andy P]

Trail name: haven't earned one yet
Direction: SOBO
Start date: June 8th

The anticipation is killing me!

[Whichway]

Hi, I start a flip-flop from Waynesboro VA. on April 22, NOBO to Maine, then flip back to VA. to go SOBO to finish in Georgia. My name is Whichway. see you out there!

[Sunny2014]

Trail Name: Sunny
Direction: SOBO
Estimated Start Date: Late May-Early June, most likely June.
Approach Trail - Not sure!
any additional info that you want the world to know: I am selling everything I own to take up the trail. I am also looking for a life changing, and potentially spiritual, experience while on this hike. This hike represents so many things to me and I hope that I find every little thing I am looking for. If not, then that's okay at least I'll be closer to the truth .

[3-wood2014]

Trail Name: 3-Wood
Direction: NOBO
Start Date: May 14
No approach trail. Looking forward to getting started. Coming from Harrisburg, PA

[RonC]

Trail Name: None yet
Direction: Nobo
Start Date: May 13th
Approach Trail: Yes
First time long distance hike attempt but so jumping in with both feet and going for a half way hike up the trail during the summer. I've wanted to do the AT since I read "a walk in the woods" by Bill Bryson 10 years ago or so. Can't wait to get out there!

[oilfieldpilot]

Trail Name: Sunny
Direction: SOBO
Estimated Start Date: Late May-Early June, most likely June.
Approach Trail - Not sure!
any additional info that you want the world to know: I am selling everything I own to take up the trail. I am also looking for a life changing, and potentially spiritual, experience while on this hike. This hike represents so many things to me and I hope that I find every little thing I am looking for. If not, then that's okay at least I'll be closer to the truth .

Hi Sunny! Fella SoBo here 01Jun14 (or when Katahdin is open) Glad to see you are taking your leap of faith and setting forth. One little idea I want to toss your way: as long as you 'feel' you are looking for something, and hoping to find, etc. as long as you stand in those vibrations of "I don't have, therefore..." then what you think you want can never reach you (or really, you align with it). There is always abundance, of everything.... hey, there's even an abundance of Lack! So stop looking, and just feel good, be happy...R-e-g-a-r-d-l-e-s-s of everything around you and all that's in your life. And when you do, Whammo! Watch what you wish for! Get out of your own way: Leave your mind at home; take only your heart. Happy Trails, Happier feet, and Lots more remembering who you really are on your journey .......................... if you truly dare to!