dont know what # i am but i am starting march 15th
dont know what # i am but i am starting march 15th
Leaving 3/27/11 from Woody Gap.
Hurt back last year before I started hiking AT and started hike anyway. Hiked from approach trail to Woody Gap where pain got too much. Will start where I left off at last year.
For those hiking 2012 all I can say I is that learned a lot on my time away from the trail. Have gone on more hikes and improved my gear. The other good thing is that this past year I took my wife on a backpacking trip. She loved it so much she'll join me on the trail at Harper's Ferry. She plans to finish the trail with me. It'll be so nice to have her with me.
Last year would've been good but this year will be great!
That Guy,
You have given me hope. I am planniung to start this April, I fell on the AT back in November and found out New Years Eve that I have a bulging disc. Spent NYE in the hospital.
Thought I would have to postpone until next 2012. I see the neurosurgeon on Friday. Hope I can do therapy and be ready by April. If not, I wll be ready next year.
Tumbleweed
That Guy,
You have given me hope. I am planniung to start this April, I fell on the AT back in November and found out New Years Eve that I have a bulging disc. Spent NYE in the hospital.
Thought I would have to postpone until next 2012. I see the neurosurgeon on Friday. Hope I can do therapy and be ready by April. If not, I wll be ready next year.
Tumbleweed
Tumbleweed,
I hope you all the best with your back issues. I know it's not fun. I was very upset when I had to leave the trail last year. It was difficult hearing for months from people I had met making their way on the trail. When a few made it all they way to Katahdin I was happy for them but determined for myself to return to the trail.
A man I head from who returned to the AT a year after he started because of health issues told me "When it's right for you the trail will be there. It's not going any place."
I thought of that often in the past year.
GOOD LUCK!!
I'm leaving Springer March 9th. 9:30am (I'm not really sure of the time, but 9:30 sounds good)
Never cut anything in half...You might end up with 2 pieces you can't use.
Pop Jones
Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
Confucius"
add 2 more.
my cousin and I are starting the end of Feb.
2011 SOBO here. Arriving in Baxter June 18th. Guess I'll see most of y'all down the way at some point...
#?? here. Leaving march 21st from the hostel.
After my meniscus tear suregery back at the end of November I have been struggling back to health. The tear exacerbated back problems and IT band syndrome so the doc said "no go" this year. I'm bummed. I have to stay home and be a backpack widow.
However, my husband and friend are fired up to go and are starting their hike on 3/28/11
Porter (Matt LaClair)
Pace (Mike Stratton)
Good luck to all those striking out on the trail!
Dreamer
im in for a nobo mid-march
3 of us leaving south bound april 6
Now I see the secret of making the best person, it is to grow in the open air and to eat and sleep with the earth.
--Walt Whitman
NOBO March 29th
Just got back from a SOBO section hike from Fontana to NOC. I passed 26 NOBOs on Saturday and 58 NOBOs on Sunday!! Look out Smokies!!!
Hope everybody has a great hike. It was great getting to know some of you.
NOBO, Spring come May 8 or 9 prolly
I was in Neels Gap yesterday and when I looked at the registry it was up to 459 sign in's there.
I sectioned hiked from Approach Trail to Woody Gap in the pouring cold rain and loved every monute of ot... cannot wait to get back on the trail in a couple of weeks
Turn that frown upside down
Planning to head SoBo July 1.