One Crazy Adventure

An A.T. Adventure – Part 1 Another year another hiking adventure! This time I am hiking from Boots Off Hostel in Hampton, TN to Damascus, Virginia. A 47-mile hike through the beautiful Iron Mountains of Tennessee. But it almost didn’t happen. Bob (aka Lumberjack) and I had planned to hike Oct 1 – 7th. Sunday through Friday. That gave us 5 days to hike and 2 for travel. Plenty of time to get some miles under our feet. Lumberjack is from Virginia and I am from Florida, so we usually meet up halfway somewhere between North Carolina and Tennessee. But this time we planned to meet up in northern Tennesee…

The Plan: Get off work at 5 pm, meet up with the guys, and book it to the Amilicola Lodge that’s 7.5 hours away, putting us there at around 1 am. Then wake up early eat breakfast and hit the trail.  Hike 50 miles over 5 days and drive back.A super simple plan.  Easy peasy. 10 Days untill the hike. I laid out all my gear on my dining room table. What do I need to keep, what can I get rid of? What are essentials and what can I leave? The first time I hiked the Appalachian Trail my pack was close to 42lbs with food and water. It…

Like the title says, I’m heading back to the AT.  It’s my friend, Mat’s 42nd birthday and he asked to go hiking. We had done a few local Florida hikes before. I guess you can call them hikes. More like walking straight for a while. But we had never done real mountain hiking together. I had the best idea. Let’s do 42 miles on the Appalachian Trail. He had never been on the Appalachian Trail before but had heard amazing things about it because I pretty much never shut up about it. Kinda like how vegans and CrossFit never stop talking about, well vegetables and CrossFit. If you spend enough…