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This week we make it to the “spiritual halfway point” of the Appalachian Trail in West Virginia and complete its “storied” Roller Coaster before our entrance to the Shenandoah National Park. Day 115: (Oct 23) 10.7 mi (1161 – Harper’s … Continue reading →

Maryland went by in a flash compared to the other states we’ve walked through.  It was not without wonder or Rocks. Day 113: (Oct 21) 14.6 (Pen Mar 1130 – Pogo Campsite 1144.6) After an amazing home cooked breakfast of … Continue reading →

Eleven days later, we are out of Pennsylvania, but that includes a 4 day interlude to a crazy good wedding in Illinois, and an additional day off with our friend Maureen from our 2015 jaunt of the Camino de Santiago. … Continue reading →

Now Pennsylvania is a pretty dynamic state. It’s flora and fauna. It’s geology.  It’s history. And how and where they decided to route the Appalachian Trail through Pennsylvania,  we’ll never understand. Especially after seeing an original proposal that had it … Continue reading →

So, we never really knew what New Jersey was all about. We knew it was on the East Coast, but our knowledge of this state was pretty limited to episodes of The Jersey Shore and a few other things we … Continue reading →

Soon, we’ll have another state checked  off our list. For the most part, New York has been in the running for one of our favorite states thus far on the Appalachian Trail. Good food. Nice tread, for the most part, … Continue reading →

We are now solidly in New York, and it feels like we are on a different trail. In essence,  it feels like we finished one trail and are now onto another as walking a minimum of 2 mph is not … Continue reading →

Day 82: (Sept 20) 4.4 mi Up early for our flight from Bangor Maine  back to New York for the SOBO part of our Appalachian Trail thru-hike, we make our way to the ticket booth to drop our bags. Our … Continue reading →

After securing a campsite at the Katahdin Springs Campground for the five of us (Paul and I, Sweat Potato, Just Jim and 2Fer) for the evening of the 17th, we packed up and marched into Baxter State Park. Once there, … Continue reading →

We have finally reached the fabled and much anticipated 100-mile Wilderness. What we came to find out is that the anticipation and angst were unnecessary, and the fables are  purely hype. Now, this may be because of where we started, … Continue reading →