Day 1: Springer Mountain to Hawk Mountain Shelter

It is 8 pm and I am in my tent, as it is raining and there is zero shelter space. You know I don’t sleep in them, but it is nice to have dinner there and get out of the rain. Because it is raining, my dinner plans are thwarted! No place to cook without […]

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Day 0: The Hiker Hostel

Short and sweet since it’s late and I have to be up at 530am! So we were up by 8 am this morning when I found myself on a mad dash of fitting a trash bag worth of loose items into my pack! I eventually did it. After showers, coffee and hotel checkout, we were […]

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T Minus 1 Day

So, I’m typing this retroactively. The present tense in this post happened yesterday on Wednesday, March 11, 2015. This morning involved a lot of last minute technology related tasks. Mostly these had to do with my SPOT GPS tracker I’ll use on the trail so you can know where I am. Also, I had some […]

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T Minus 2 Days

A super quick update on where things stand. It’s been a mad house around here. Last minute packing, boxing up of first few mail drops, mailing the first mail drops, assembling my bounce box, having a going away party, last minute technical considerations, last minute financial considerations, and I’m sure a whole host of other […]

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T Minus 7 Days: OMG!!!

After what I’ve been through the past few weeks, there’s this: …and that’s all I have to say about that.   frantically wandering on… Kelly

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