Jordan McCarron at mile 799.1 of the Appalachian Trail: We can play outside from the moment the sun comes up until it goes down and even then we can sleep out in tents. We can have campfires and make s’mores…
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Long-distance hiking on America’s National Scenic Trails.
‘Hiker Heaven’ on the PCT
by tmangan • June 5, 2006 • 0 Comments
From the LiveJournal blog of Redtail, at mile 454 on the Pacific Crest Trail: Hiker Heaven … is an experience unto itself. THGTTPCT tries to give some flavor of it in the page and a half it devotes to the…
A PCT dispatch
by tmangan • May 23, 2006 • 3 Comments
Jen and Juice, at mile 277 on the Pacific Crest Trail: What a night it was. I slept fairly soundly, Jenny on the other hand, was up most of the night conviced that the next huge gust was going to…
Hiking East St. Louis
by tmangan • May 11, 2006 • 0 Comments
Bobby & Poot, at mile 1655 of the American Discovery Trail Then our ADT turn-by-turn told us to follow the levees into E. St. Louis. So that’s just what we did. Now, we were warned of the dangers that lurk…
A good PCT read
by tmangan • April 21, 2006 • 0 Comments
Most trail journalers are far better hikers than writers, which means a fair amount of tedium trolling for bits of Trail Journal entries that seem postworthy. One correspondent whose prose stands out from the rest is Funnybone, who’s already been…
Trail Journals post of the day
by tmangan • April 7, 2006 • 1 Comment
From Bugs, 338.70 miles up the Appalachian Trail: It is early afternoon, and I am still at Miss Janet’s house. I have decided, at the urging of all, to embrace the whimsy of the trail a bit. In other words,…
More Appalachian Trail dispatches
by tmangan • April 3, 2006 • 0 Comments
Trooper, at 75.4 miles in: I reached the Ga./N.C. border about 3pm, and decided to stay at Bly Gap. What a feeling it is to know that you can accomplish something like this in this day and age. Just over…
AT thru-hikers getting their feet wet
by tmangan • March 30, 2006 • 0 Comments
It’s that time of the year to start hiking the Appalachian Trail, and Trailjournals.com is starting to amass a fair number of posts from intrepid trekkers. A few samplings: Frosty, at 62.9 miles in: I blew up my pillow and…
A thruhiker’s tale
by tmangan • January 14, 2006 • 4 Comments
I’ve been thinking about picking a hiker at random at TrailJournals and just following him/her along as the trip progresses, with posts here grabbing snippets of journal entries. This morning I found an intriguing prospect: A guy named Eric Yakel,…