A year after section hiking Maine, we set out to tackle the New Hampshire Appalachian Trail. Except this time we planned on section hiking the state in sections. Simply put, it hasn’t worked out as planned. Add two more years and this is still a hike in progress. Please follow along, and feel free to get a good laugh at our expense. Hopefully you can learn something from our mistakes. Sometimes I wonder if we ever do.
For starters, it’s Katahdin. Not Mount Katahdin. Not Katahdin Mountain. Just plain Katahdin. The Native Americans used to call it “Kette-Adene,” which meant the “greatest mountain.” They were on to something. The Appalachian Trail climbs Katahdin via the popular Hunt …
We woke up the morning of day 19 to another rain storm, which helped us get off to our slowest start yet. With only 14 miles on the docket we were in no rush to begin with. The terrain was …
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Every now and then I get a whiff of something wretched, and then I realize: it’s me. Speaking of smells, there were a couple of times today when I could have sworn that I caught the aroma of Frito-Lay corn …
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I’m not sure how many times I can say that today was tough in this blog? It seems that the record broke on that song and dance a long time ago. We began the day by attempting to explore Gulf …
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Okay, so I understand that my credibility may not be the best it could be right now after the whole bear hoax, but today we truly saw something you don’t see every day. While going over one of the mountains …
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Today was a beautiful day for hiking with temps in the low seventies, no humidity, cool breezes and rarely a cloud in the sky. After another excellent breakfast at Shaw’s we were shuttled to the trailhead, which also is the …
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