Welcome This is where I plan to post updates and rant while I am on my hike of the Appalachian Trail!...
Miles: 5 Here I am sitting at the 600 mile mark. My ankle is done working correctly. I limped here but still kept a 1 mph pace. I would like to come back after my ankle heals but I know how life works and there is a nonzero chance this is my last milestones (stones are placed on the ground spelling 600 so yes, literally mile stones). Few frontiers remain in The United States that truly offer an…
Miles: 15 Hey readers! Today was good but I didn’t get to camp with everyone like planned because my left ankle started hurting. Everyone’s ankles and feet are hurting. Shin splints, ankle rolls, toe smashing stubbing at full speed, you name it. My left ankle specifically gets a sharp pain whenever I point my foot up and it’s to the point I can only limp to walk. It just happened randomly there…
Miles: 10 Writing this where I don’t have signal to upload once again. Last night I didn’t get any sleep because Zero and I accidentally stayed in a shelter with the snore lord. If he doesn’t have a trail name it needs to be that. Every snore would get louder and louder until it felt like it shook the building then - a breathing fit. This restarted all night. Definitely sleep apnea. The sunrise at…
Miles: 24 Good evening my compatriots. Today was a good day. Last night was quite treacherous however, the rain had its dirty ways with everyone who tented outside. Even the best tents like Durston with a double wall and great rain fly can only stand so much rain before the inside gets misted. Everyone got wet to a certain degree. Green Man got fucked. Sorry for language but I don’t know how else…
Miles: 13.4 Yeah I know I just was talking about doing big miles but today was a slow and late start. Turns out it’s really hard to sleep in a shelter with 7+ people in the same room. Even when you’re all friends. And the weather in the morning made many of us hesitate Today I was actually so sleep deprived and my pack weighed so much I just had to take a nap mid-day maybe 7 miles in. It was a…
Miles: 9.5 Friendship. The most powerful human emotion. Today we all just hung out. We did a quick but somewhat dreadful hike in the rain then got to the mega shelter that’s two stories and has a shower. The shower was freezing and I went in with my clothes and did some laundry too. This shelter is built more like a log cabin than a shack which three walls. We went into Marion VA to resupply at a…
Miles: 21 (Yesterdays post again) Will 20 miles be the norm now? I could probably keep this up on non-town days or days where there’s nothing to do but walk. But in days where there’s other things I can do I don’t want to prioritize walking over exploring/adventure/making memories. After a long and arduous journey we found the rest of the gang at the shelter we planned ended up at! Everyone Is…
Miles: 24 Everything in this story I didn’t happen but it turns out we bushwhacked onto the closed part of the trail and we had to go forward so not really our faults. We atleast got to use the nice construction portapotty in the morning and properly throw out some trash. The big mistake we made was that there was this broken railroad bridge that was only half planked up. We didn’t want to become…
Miles: ~13 No signal tonight you know the drill by now Modelo left today. I held back tears and smiled for him but then erupted into ugly sobbing when the car pulled out. I couldn’t control it. He was crying too. Taiwan is so far away it almost seems like we won’t see him again atleast in person. He said 2027 may be the year he returns to hike the AT once more. Modelo genuinely was the most…
Miles: 9 I woke up early and hiked with Modelo 9 miles across the Tennessee-Virginia border and down into Damascus. When crossing the border I drew a line in the dirt and made a big deal out of stepping across it. Virginia is where the pee stick gets caught in the ceiling fan for many hikers because it’s the longest you are in the same state. It’s said that progress feels slower here but I’m…