Day 3: Saturday, November 17th, 2014 Brown Mountain Creek Shelter to US60/A.T. Intersection (1.8 miles) Laying down for last night’s sleep was a relaxing affair. Actually, it is relaxing until you start hearing things and your brain goes into alert status. “What’s that sound?” “What was that???” The human brain is an amazing machine – […]
Shakedown Trip #5: Day 2
Day 2: Saturday, November 16th, 2014 A Huge Surprise Visit and an Out-and-Back Day Hike (4.1 Miles) Throughout the night, I had been awakened by several different noises. This has been the case on most of my outings this year. The rustling of leaves is largely responsible for this – rustling leaves can sound like […]
Shakedown Trip #5: Day 1
(Note: I had intended this trip to be fully covered in a single post – but that’s not happening. I’ve decided to split it up into daily posts. Enjoy!) Folks, we have yet another successful shakedown trip. Woohoo! Bottom line is that we survived sub-freezing temperatures at night, rain, daytime highs that barely exceeded freezing, […]
Shakedown Trip #5 – The Three Stooges
So, it’s time to head out on another practice hike this weekend, woohoo! The main point of this trip is to 1. torture the two victims (uh, I mean, friends) I’m bringing along and, 2. to test out my newly acquired bad-ass (you knew it, right?) winter gear. We’re headed to an area where the A.T. […]
Shakedown Trip #4 – Day 2
Lambert Meadow Shelter to US 220 September 28, 2014 – Sunday Good morning! I must say that I had the best night’s sleep ever on the trail. I only woke up one time in the middle of the night, and that was a bladder notification alarm that went off. Fortunately, the fluid levels were not […]
Shakedown Trip #4 – Day 1
VA 311 to Lambert Meadows Shelter September 27, 2014 – Saturday I’ve been home now for only 36 hours after this trip and am now faced with blogging about the trip I just took. On my thru-hike, I won’t be able to afford this luxury – I have no choice but to blog each night […]
Shakedown Trip #4 – Coming Soon
Actually it’s coming real soon – is in right now. I just got home from work and I’m about to leave for Shakedown Trip #4! Once again, you see why the last trip had to get posted quickly. Apparently, I blog better under pressure. I absolutely never want to go on a trip without having […]
Shakedown Trip #3 – Day 3
The Priest Shelter to Montebello Fish Hatchery August 18, 2015 – Monday Good morning hikers and campers! Up and at’em! This may be too much information, (Thank you for listening to WTMI – Way Too Much Information) but whatever. If the readers can’t handle the truth, that’s not my problem. So, I woke up with […]
Shakedown Trip #3 – Day 2
Harpers Creek Shelter to The Priest Shelter August 17, 2014 – Sunday Welcome back, the handful of visitors that are still here! First, a couple of notes regarding the previous Day 1 post: 1. I can’t believe I fouled this up, but that “Random rock-face” photo from Day 1 is NOT a random rock-face outcrop […]
Shakedown Trip #3 – Day 1
Day 1: Reeds Gap to Harpers Creek Shelter August 16, 2014 – Saturday Ah, morning time in the tent… *Yaaaaaaawn* After waking, I turned on my computer phone, now freshly and fully charged thanks to my bad-ass portable recharger. I found the time to be 6:00am. This wasn’t actually my first wake up, however. One’s […]