.. To the next shelter or camp in between. All good. Having fun.

Posted on March 30th, 2008 under On The Trail. Comments: None

Day 4 w horsepower, who has started calling me loafy! Easy 9 today. Into the shelter by 1 15, didn t want to push 10 more

Posted on March 30th, 2008 under On The Trail. Comments: None

Night two with horse, who has picked up the trailname horsepower. All good. Came upon some delicious trail magic 2day.

Posted on March 28th, 2008 under On The Trail. Comments: 1

This is my second zero in a row, so time to tell some more stories.
* Wanderer, who is a volunteer caretaker at Upper Goose Pond Cabin in Massachusets, was telling a bunch of us about hiking the Whites in New Hampshire. He said “You can’t do more than about 8 miles a day up there. [...]

Posted on March 26th, 2008 under On The Trail. Comments: None

I’ve heard from a few of you that you can’t figure out how to post a comment. Here’s how:
1. In the upper right, you’ll see some text that says “Sign My Guestbook”. Click on it.
2. This will take you to a screen that shows other people’s comments. Scroll down to the bottom.
3. You’ll see some [...]

Posted on March 25th, 2008 under On The Trail. Comments: None

I’m here in Hot Springs, NC, staying at Elmer’s Sunnybank Inn, which is just this sprawling old victorian house filled with hikers, art and walls and walls of very good books – anything from Edward Abbey and Noam Chomsky to Wuthering Heights. They serve organic locally grown vegetarian dinner and breakfast. It’s truly a cool, [...]

Posted on March 25th, 2008 under On The Trail. Comments: None

The Smokies – especially the thirty miles north of Newfound Gap – is truly one of the special places in the world, and I’m glad I got to see it again. Gatlinburg? Well, it’s special, too, but more in a short bus kind of sense. After a night out of the rain (what we in [...]

Posted on March 22nd, 2008 under On The Trail. Comments: 1

Mile 204.6. Hitched in to gatlinburg for a dry warm bed… And an airbrushed t shirt! Guess what. They have fudge here! Who knew?!

Posted on March 19th, 2008 under On The Trail. Comments: None

Mile 163. Am at the Fontana Village Resort, which is a nice place. Severe thunderstorms today, so decided to zero. I could use the break after a tough haul out of the NOC. Besides, I need to slow down a little bit, since I have 12 days (11 now) to do the 100 miles to [...]

Posted on March 15th, 2008 under On The Trail. Comments: None