Category Archives: Pre-Hike

Posts from before my hike, about preparation and plans.

Less than a Week to Go!

It’s exciting. It’s nerveracking. Sad. Happy. Crazy. A hot mess, you might say. But I’m ready for it. I’m all moved out of New York and my stuff is in storage. My friends and everyone I’m close to sent me … Continue reading

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Australia After the Trail Perhaps?

I don’t know what I’ll discover or how I’ll be changed along the trail – that’s what’s so exciting about it. I did, however, want to get one option ready for myself: I’m just about done with my application for … Continue reading

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Counting Down the Days

Just four more weeks! Those of you looking at this post on the main page will notice that the countdown timer has switched from “months” to “days”. It feels so surreal. And yet, while I’m endlessly looking forward to it, … Continue reading

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Who will be on my route???

I have a schedule! Myself, Sondheim, and Isa will be starting out from Springer Mountain on March 21st, 2014. If you’re near to the AT and want to join me for a short stretch or if you perhaps have a … Continue reading

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Initial Gear List

I have spent significant time looking through other peoples’ AT gear lists in trying to plan my own hike. Now, it’s time to pay that forward. I’m sure I’ll be switching around gear once I get on the trail – … Continue reading

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No man is brave…

No man is brave that has never walked a hundred miles. If you want to know the truth of who you are, walk until not a person knows your name. Travel is the great leveler, the great teacher, bitter as … Continue reading

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Going for a Hike

As many of you already know, in late March 2014, I’ll be quitting my job and hiking the full length of the Appalachian Trail. I am incredibly excited, and cannot stop thinking about it. It’ll be a roughly 5-month journey, … Continue reading

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Exploration

We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time. T.S. Eliot

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