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Follow along as I plan my upcoming hike of the Pacific Crest Trail, with loads of information about gear, resupply, outfits, healthy eating and pre-hike training. Let’s do this!
“All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware.”
~Martin Buber
How are you training your home team?
I put a question to members of a thru-hiker support group I’m in and asked this of the former thru-hikers and LASHes:
What did your home team do to offer support that was special and meaningful?
Here's what they said.
Five months before my start date and I’m contemplating resupply.
Resupply is a big topic. Today I just wanted to share a tiny chunk.
I offer five + five (ten!) resupply points along the AT that are, literally, along the AT. No hitchhiking required. You hardly have to break stride because you’ll be walking right past many of them anyway.
If I can't wear a towel while I'm doing laundry on the trail, what will I wear?
Such is the the dilemma of the thru-hiker, who only has one set of clothes (that desperately need washing).
For this, some genius invented the bounce box.
What is it and what do I put in it? Today, I answer the question.
Each week I'll be sharing five things about thru-hiking the Appalachian Trail that I've discovered, learned, heard about, realized or gleaned as I'm immersed in planning my own thru-hike.
This week, I share five things to do five months before you get on the trail. Number five may surprise you!
A few weeks ago, I went to Damascus, VA to take a course that was supposed to help me get ready for my thru-hike. The term “purist” came up a few times.
The course instructor felt like people had come to use that term in a derogatory way.
Maybe. But should we really GAF what other people think about how we hike? I think not.
Don't tell my tent, but I'm having a clandestine affair with a hammock.
It was a tough decision to make. I thought it through, trying not to let my emotions get the best of me. I crunched the data--weights and costs. Pros and cons. Whoopies and webbing.
It's all here. Plus, the one thing it ultimately boils down to when deciding between a tent and a hammock.
Try not to overthink your itinerary (she says as she calculates mileages, crunches numbers and estimates arrival times to trail towns along the way).
Today I share my own itinerary and I offer a link to a worksheet where you can create your own.
Trust me...after crunching the numbers, I'm convinced that walking from Georgia to Maine in a season is totally doable for mortals and slow hikers alike.
