I’ve moved my blog to http://adrr.com/d20
No advertisements, no charges, part of my personal web domain adrr,com.
This was a fun experiment but free and under my complete control trumps everything else.
In the 100 mile wilderness
My post about the summit is in Internet limbo.
However, we are on our way. Mile 44 southbound. Saw Ninja Mouse, Jellyfish and Robot among others so far in the wilderness.
[turns out this post from late August just surfaced]
Hot Springs, North Carolina.
Yes. A bit of a day from Max Patch to Hot Springs. Today we take a zero and let the rain fall. :).
[the other post that just surfaced. Obviously now way out of chronological order].
More statistics.
It is fun to see statistical surveys.
https://sectionhiker.com/backpacking-pillow-preferences-survey-results/ For the latest.
I’m currently back to my less than $10 inflatable pillow.
Slight update
We expect to be back out on the trail, starting at mile 710 on May 19 or 20 in 2020.
I enjoyed using Blogger. If I was carrying a laptop on the trail with me, I’d probably consider still using it. But with only a phone to use as a camera and everything else, the WordPress App works so much better.
This blog takes off where I left off from my Trail Journal. I went to WordPress from Trail Journal because of the WordPress App.
As for Blogger, that goes to a different chapter in my life. I’ve left it up, since that chapter remains.
The Trail Journal posts are at:
- http://www.trailjournals.com/journal/entry/596552 (first post there);
- http://www.trailjournals.com/journal/entries/22987 (index of all my posts there);
- http://www.trailjournals.com/journal/entry/607776 (last post there);
- http://www.trailjournals.com/journal/photos/22987 (index of photographs uploaded there).
Really useful stretches for hiking: https://happytrailsandwanderlust.wordpress.com/2017/11/07/suggested-trail-stretches/
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What the trail was like ahead of us
That storm we rode out in town really made a mess. Glad I’m not hiking that through the snow.
Tabasco went forward but he had fifty miles to go to finish.
We will finish the trail next year
We had some promising weather and a wonderful start to an Indian Summer. At the same time we were looking at about seven weeks to finish the trail or fourteen to finish a through hike (including redoing parts we had done but a month or two too early to count).
We had some wonderful days and then a cold front broke the weather pattern.
For reference, the trail north/east of us:
So. Looking at three inches of rain followed by a week of snow and high winds to finish up Vermont. Maybe getting done in time to have Thanksgiving with Rachel, maybe being a week late.
Everything started to close as well.
If we weren’t going to hike through Christmas to get a through hike, Win suggested we finish our 180 miles in Virginia this April (which is a wonderful time to hike Virginia) and return to Vermont in September when the mosquitoes and black flies are gone.
I was 120% behind that idea.
Which puts us back in Dallas. I’ve some writing projects and Win has the busy season at work.
Here are links to the last updates.
New Hampshire color change:
Back in Dallas:
Looking at the initial weather change.
My favorite picture from 2016:
Making it out of the rain:
Bear Mountain
Turning the corner in Vermont. (The trail goes East-West and then turns a corner and goes North-South).
Slack packing and a gondola ride:
We missed the Yellow Deli—they were closed.
Sole Man and Thrifty
Winturri shelter
Just before Dartmouth/ Vermont
And Dartmouth/Hanover
Thistle Shelter
And Dowd’s where we were in Lyme:
