so when we left the lovely diner here in trout dale last night, the sun had come out, the most threatening clouds had moved away and it turned into quite a pleasant, fairly cool evening. we felt a bit guilty about not being back on the trail, meeting up with our friends at the shelter [...]
Archive for April, 2008
a wise decision!
Posted in Uncategorized on April 29, 2008 | 1 Comment »
yet another change of plans…
Posted in Uncategorized on April 28, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
greetings again, all. we weren’t planning to update again for a while, but, as seems to be the norm for us so far, things didn’t go as we thought. no worries — nothing disastrous or anything.
What we’ve been up to…
Posted in Uncategorized on April 24, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
…since Erwin, TN.
Well, to sum up, we finally started racking up the miles a bit. We had done the 19 mile slackpack back into town, followed by another 19 miles the next day which included going up and over Roan Mountain. We pushed for such a challenging day because waiting 6.5 miles beyond the top [...]
thank you!!!
Posted in Uncategorized on April 24, 2008 | 1 Comment »
this post goes out to the wonderful ms. priss, our newest trail angel. (she’s one of the two gals we hiked with for the latter half of the smokies, all the way to hot springs.)
More pics
Posted in Uncategorized on April 23, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Our preselected maildrops
Posted in Uncategorized on April 23, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
As per request, here’s a listing of our currently planned maildrops (we may set more up in the future and we’ll let ya’ll know):
Troutdale, Va 24378
Bland, Va 24315
Catawba, Va 24070
Troutville, Va 24175
Harper’s Ferry, WV 25425
Bear Mountain, NY 10911
Tyringham, Ma 01264
Killington, VT 05751
Man, we really need to set up more drops for the 2nd half of [...]
How we resupply (hint hint)
Posted in Uncategorized on April 23, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
You’d be surprised (well, at least we’ve been surprised) at how many people think that we’re carrying all the food we’re going to need for the remainder of our trip. Their shock at how much we must be carrying is trumped by the shock of the absurdity of that query – do you have any [...]
even better trail magic…
Posted in Uncategorized on April 22, 2008 | 1 Comment »
so here we sit in damascus, va, having covered about 120 miles since you last heard from us. we’ll fill ya’ll in on our travels in a bit, but for right now we’ve got a bit of a story…
Them’s good eatin’
Posted in Uncategorized on April 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
All right, before I do my part to catch you up on where we are, there’s something you need to know…
recap…
Posted in Uncategorized on April 16, 2008 | 1 Comment »
ok, now that hamburglar has updated you on the recent stuff, it’s my turn to give you the nitty gritty of what we’ve been up to since leaving the smokies.
we made it to hot springs, nc, still hiking with our crew from the latter half of the smokies. the weather threatened rain almost every day, [...]
