Category Archives: Trail-time!

Editor’s note: this was written a few days ago. We have good cell service now, so we’re posting ’em. (posted by Mike from Mel’s phone; 9:30 PM, 4/20/11) We hiked about 14.5 miles today, from 9 AM to almost 7 … Continue reading →

Editor’s note: this was written a few days ago. We have good cell service now, so we’re posting a few. (dedicated to my sis, with many thanks, and sung to the tune of a John Denver classic. This ran through … Continue reading →

Editor’s note: this was written a few days ago. We have good cell service now, so we’re posting ’em. We are now 358.6 miles from Springer Mtn. That’s 16.4 percent of the way. My left pinky toe joined the blister … Continue reading →

  After Fontana Dam, North Carolina, the trail enters the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, which is partially in North Carolina and partially in Tennessee.  Check out the new photo gallery by clicking on galleries and selecting from the drop-down … Continue reading →

…and I will walk 1780 more. Okay, I know that doesn’t have quite as nice a ring to it as the old Proclaimers tune, but it’s been in my head all day and making up lyrics to already established songs … Continue reading →

It’s 9pm: do you know where AT hikers are? Most at this shelter 4 miles north of Erwin, Tennessee are hunkered down in their sleeping bags either writing in their journals or sleeping already. My dad and I are definitely … Continue reading →

Here we are again. Back at the Fontana Hilton, the “hotel” of the Appalachian trail shelters. There are flush toilets, showers and room to sleep 24. And let me tell you, it looks like there will be that many here … Continue reading →

A couple of nights ago, at the Sassafras Gap Shelter, a bear got into the shelter and ripped open a hiker’s sleeping bag.  No, just http://mightyjungle.com.au/cialis-tadalafil-online/ kidding.  It got into the shelter, and ripped open someone’s food bag that they … Continue reading →

(This is by Mike, using Mel’s phone.) It’s Saturday the 26th of March. We reached N.C. Rte. 28 yesterday, after 5.5 miles of hiking; a total of 162.6 so far. There is a little town of Fontana Dam here, and … Continue reading →