Hey, I can’t figure out how to get our email addresses to show up, so here they are:
Hamburglar – rpk219@yahoo.com
Pippi – elenrhoades@hotmail.com
Archive for March, 2008
Our email addresses
Posted in Uncategorized on March 29, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Welcome to Gatlinburg!
Posted in Uncategorized on March 29, 2008 | 1 Comment »
All right, so we’re 40 miles through the Smokies, which end up being 71 miles or so, and feeling pretty good. We’ve had some good days and have been putting in the miles. After taking a couple days off for Pippi’s knees, we hit Fontana Dam Wednesday morning and plugged through to the first shelter [...]
Our first batch of pictures
Posted in Uncategorized on March 24, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
These are barely a sampling of what we’ve seen thus far, but at least it gives ya’ll some idea of what we’ve been doing… Also, you can find all of our pictures at http://www.flickr.com/photos/rpk219/sets/72157604043979861/ (if that link works) Here goes…
Welcome back to the approach trail
so a slight change of plans…
Posted in Uncategorized on March 24, 2008 | 1 Comment »
right. so last we wrote, our plan was to hop back on the trail after just one night at the fabulous blueberry patch hostel outside of scenic hiawassee, georgia. however, my knees have spoken and they will not be ignored. it was a frustrating decision that i agonized over quite a bit, but we’ve decided [...]
Days 3-7, condensed
Posted in Uncategorized on March 22, 2008 | 4 Comments »
It was taking way too long to recount the first couple days, even though we left out a bunch, so in the interest of time, we’ll speed things up.
The morning of Day 3 left us 15.6 miles short of Neel’s Gap where there’s a hostel & cabins, but between us and there were some pretty [...]
Day 2, or How I didn’t pee myself
Posted in Uncategorized on March 22, 2008 | 1 Comment »
So, we’re both sleeping at about 6:30am when all of a sudden something large rushed up to our tent and slammed into it. Hoping it was nothing, I pretended I didn’t hear the noise when Elen asked, “What was that?” A short while later, it could not be ignored.
Day 1
Posted in Uncategorized on March 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Yea, I know. Finally we’re able to put something up on this here blog thing. Well, day 1 was pretty quick and easy. My friend Rainbow Brite, with whom I hiked in’06, drove Elen and I from Asheville to Springer Mountain in Georgia for us to jump on the trail. Springer is in Amicalola State [...]
Gotta make this quick
Posted in Uncategorized on March 19, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Today is Wednesday, March 19th, it’ll be our third full day out here. I’ll take more time in a couple days to really give you all an update, but so far, we survived a “bear” attack on our tent the first morning, climbed up and down what has seemed like 200 peaks and went up [...]
This is the day!
Posted in Uncategorized on March 16, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Well, it’s finally here. Later today, my friend and previous AT partner, Rainbow Brite, will be dropping us at Springer Mountain in Georgia. This past week has been unbelieveably hectic, beyond comprehension, so much so that we haven’t been able to post anything up here. To give you a run down, we drove from Minnesota [...]
Why?
Posted in Uncategorized on March 6, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Asking someone why they want to thru-hike the Appalachian Trail is such a loaded question that any response you get will be incomplete, forced and probably a tad trite. One could literally come up with a different answer each day and none of them would be wrong or any less true than the others. The [...]
