I am going back to the trail on Friday, in Harpers Ferry. I am very very excited about this. Harpers Ferry is where the Appalachian Trail Conservancy is headquartered and is near the halfway point and thus is considered a psychological halfway point and so basically I have half the trail ahead of me. This is good for me, as far as morale goes. Whatever shenanigans I pulled during the northern half, I will still be able to say I have hiked the southern half of the AT all in one go.
Statistics:
Hiked 741 miles
Skipped 425 miles
Miles to Georgia: 1,013
I love my Virginia family and I wish I could see them all more often.
I might go back and do the 425 skipped miles next year before June 17th, then it would still be considered a thru hike. I missed some stuff, most notably the half gallon challenge, in Boiling Springs PA, where you eat a half gallon of ice cream in under 30 minutes. I am a Hammond and thus I am genetically predisposed to being able to knock that challenge out of the water, and I was really looking forward to it. Also I missed the lowest elevation on the trail, in a zoo in NY. Also missed the Hudson Bridge. And I'll never know exactly how bad the rocks are in PA.
I have so much to look forward to!!
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