2,189.2 miles (+ at least 10 extra to find campsites, water & provisions)…walking. Pedestrian-like… Every Appalachian Trail Thru-Hiker has at least a bit of insanity in their brain… Thanks for being a part of our adventure by following our footsteps in this blog…love ya all! …
Yes…people just up and abandon their shoes. Some are accidentally dropped during the hiking day if strapped to a pack, but many I found at campsites and were probably left intentionally. Most due to blistered feet, but who really knows? I started taking pics of abandoned footwear soon after our hike began, unfortunately I didn’t […]
Most of the following pics were taken during the autumn in Maine (August) and Virginia (September). I don’t have the time to identify them at the moment, so feel free to make suggestions if you are in the know! …
Leaving Virginia, we entered a land of beautiful bald-topped mountains that requires hikers learn the skill of burying their own excrement (Tennessee has strict anti-outhouse ordinances :-p). Along the way we were pelted wetly by the fringes of Hurricane Joaquin and we’re bounced back and forth across the Tenn/NC state line… … We arrived today […]
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burl Below is a smattering collage of tree burls, parasitic lesions and deformities that we have seen over our past 5 months of hiking. I have gotten tired of photographing them, so have decided to go ahead and post that which I have instead of waiting for the end of our adventure…
After climbing the northern AT terminus on August 18, we spent a few days driving south while stopping periodically to see friends/family and do some non-mountain sightseeing. Here are a few of the people and places we saw during our drive: … We then spent a few days in the Shenandoah Valley visiting family and […]
Our last few weeks within the state of Maine were spent winding around huge ponds and over rolling, tree-filled hills to reach the northern terminus of the Appalachian Trail…Mount Katahdin in Baxter State Park. Luck was with us and very little rain fell during this period, making the sometimes mud-filled trail not so difficult. Mount […]
The Mahoosuc Range in southern Maine, while lower in elevation to her sister Ranges (the Whites of NH) to the south, are no reprieve to sore knees and ankles with countless steep, rocky, rooty, muddy ups & downs. The “Mahoosuc Notch” a mile long scramble through, around, over and under huge boulders claims to be […]
Sorry for such a lengthy wait for a new post…thought we’d be through New Hampshire in a quicker fashion (silly :-p). We knew the Whites (Franconia & Presidential Ranges) would be tough and beautiful…and they didn’t disappoint. …
Milander Adventures 2015 AT 
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