Big news today! I am going to thru-hike Appalachian Trail this year!!!
I told my parents yesterday, so I guess it's official.
I'm planning to do a flip flop starting in Harpers Ferry mid-April. I'll hike all the way to Mount Katahdin and then return to Harpers ferry to hike south all the way to Springer mountain.
Sometimes everything just disappears - Whitout conditions set up in the Rainbow Basin of the Alaska Range, above the Canwell Glacier. Looking at the flanks of McCallum Peak.
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June 25, 1983: Picking up the roadwalk under the I-81 overpass near the sprawling truck stops on US 220, I soon found myself drifting back into the #Virginia to which I had grown accustomed on this journey, following rural lanes past rolling pastures, barns, silos and a few small clusters of residences.
Şartlar ve imkanlar (maddi ve manevi) elverirse, bir kısmını ziyaret etmiş olmama rağmen haritadaki yerleri bu yıl yeniden ziyaret etmeyi düşünüyorum. Hem bahar dönemi yürüyüş planına dahil ettiğim noktalar oldu hem de daha sıcak mevsimde araç ile ziyaret planı yaptım. Umarım evdeki hesap çarşıya uyar! 🍀 😊
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August 23, 1983: I followed this road for a mile to an outcrop called Prospect Rock, located at the salient formed by a precipitous set of southward-facing cliffs meeting a vertical westward-facing cliff. A sweeping panoramic view of the town of Manchester, Vermont, its green valley, and the surrounding mountains detained me for fifteen minutes
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September 8, 1983: It was mostly cloudy in Crawford Notch at 12:30 when I set out on the #AppalachianTrail. A nice, stiff breeze was blowing, the air was fresh and dry, and the day was much cooler than the last few had been. As usual, that 12:30 start was considerably later than I wanted it to be.
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August 15, 1983: The southern portion of the Taconic Mountain Range is basically two parallel chains separated by a high central valley. The Appalachian Trail follows the eastern fork. In Connecticut, this consists of a high, wooded plateau called Mount Riga, with the rocky crag of Lions Head rising from its southernmost tip.
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September 27, 1983: The Appalachian Trail continued eastward along a humpy and hummocky ridge. It traveled a rugged course with constant sharp ups and downs through high, windswept forests. Masses of slender downed fir limbs and plenty of blown down trees lie among the moss and rocks of the crest. Dusky fir and spruce rose above black, spongy earth cluttered with masses of dark gray boulders.
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September 9, 1983: Last night’s weather forecast called for increasing clouds today, with a chance of rain tonight. I drove to the Mount Washington Auto Road from Gorham, not expecting much. What we got was one of those perfect days so rare in the northern Presidentials, but which, for some reason, I seem to enjoy every time I venture into these mountains — the first day.
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June 10, 1983: Unlike the Roan Highlands, the open fields throughout the Mount Rogers area did not seem to be natural balds. In places which hadn't been grazed recently, thick scrub covered the landscape. The predominant features of these landscapes were emerald green spring grasses and medium to light gray boulders and rock outcrops,
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August 24, 1983: The final summit of the day was 2850-foot Baker Peak, which the Appalachian Trail ascended after leaving the lake. This was the lowest summit of the day, so I was not expecting much.
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August 31, 1983: The Appalachian Trail followed some dirt roads through a pleasant farm valley encircled by mountains and reentered the forest to begin a rather taxing climb up to Holts Ledge, the first real mountain it had thus far traversed in New Hampshire. It kept turning onto one woods road after another, and each was a bit steeper than the preceding one.
In the last days of 2023, I embarked on a hiking journey to the Canary Islands.
Renowned as a destination for tourists and beachgoers, these islands are also a heaven for hikers, and boast an array of diverse ecosystems, from coastal dunes to pine forests to volcanic terrains.
My journey took me along the #GR131 route traversing #Tenerife and #GranCanaria.