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Zack visits the Trail
Hello, Friends!It is I, Zack Ferraro, your merry zephyr. I zip by so quick and all you feel is a quick passing of gas. That is not exactly what I mean. What I really mean is that I am in and out so...
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Gooch and Bacon: Not Just a Breakfast Food
Gooch and Bacon were celebrities to me. And Lost Rob, their old hiking partner, had been raving about them every day for the last couple of weeks. It was always “Gooch this...” and “Bacon that...,"...
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Pati-O's Pati-Wagon and Little Dipper Meets Lil' Dipper--The Face Off!
Trail names are very useful. Their bizarreness makes them unique (For example I met Uncle Bivy Sac, Spicoli, Limbo, Sippy Cup, and Brave Little Toaster). And their meaning can be more fitting than a...
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Stay at Kenneth's House
Friends, Quakers, chance readers, lend me your pixels...After some fascinating games of phone tag, complicated by mountains and Google not knowing where the AT is, I found our Karrie in a landscape and...
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Dave Joins Karrie's Big Adventure; Or, Hiking Home to Pennsylvania
After a long and convoluted game of phone tag, I finally caught my old friend from high school, the intrepid Karrie Kressler, in High Point State Park, NJ, last Sunday. We hiked together for about 46...
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Home in Pennsylvania
Hey Everyone! Karrie, here and home in good ol' PA. Set to meet up with Fred (dad), Jim Dalton, Melissa Matthews, and Susan Swartz this weekend. If you're from PA and you wanna hike, contact me fast!...
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Trail Friends Come Folk Dancing
Gooch, Curse and Fiddler join me at the Barn in my hometown for some dancing. Here, we're doing "The Bus Stop" to "Play That Funky Music White Boy" by Wild Cherry. For more videos, go here.
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And in other news...
As the months drag onward thru hikers' appetites only continue to build. Food has become scarce on the trail and hikers are having to turn to each other for comfort and handouts. But, one hiker reports...
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The Half Gallon Challenge
Friends!I know, its been a long time. So long in fact, that I am now more than halfway done with the AT. YAY! I passed into Harper's Ferry, WV (the psychological halfway point), just this evening with...
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Oh, You Should Really See A Doctor About That...
While hiking through Pennsylvania I had begun to notice a large, hard, and painful spot developing on my tookus. I couldn’t actually see most of it due to its location, but I could see the edge of it,...
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Halfway Point Photo
Southbounder #30 to Harper's Ferry, 1183 miles done, 995 miles to go.
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Excursion to Washington, D.C.
Recently, I was bombarded and snatched from the beautiful Shenandoah National Park by an old college friend, Kate Powell. We quickly Taco Bell-ed ourselves and retreated to her house in Falls Church...
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Anna Is In The Rain With Karrie
From Anna:It was wonderful to see Karrie a few weeks ago on the trail! I met up with her and her hiking buddies between McAfee's Knob and Dragon's Tooth (both very beautiful places) and started hiking...
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McAfee's Knob, VA
McAfee's Knob is quoted as "the most photographed spot on the AT," and according to my dear friend Anna, it is a must see if you plan on visiting southern Virginia. I happen to agree. McAfee's Knob,...
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Sisyphus and Icarus
When I went home to Bloomsburg, PA with 6 of my trail friends I had unknowingly disappointed a thru-hiker behind us. Sisyphus, and his dog Icarus had started hiking the trail on June 17th (11 days...
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Ransom, An Amish Treat
In 1981, a man named Randall Lee Smith murdered 2 hikers at the Wapiti shelter: shooting the male victim 3 times, and stabbing the female more than a dozen times. He then, according to the word on the...
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Thinking about your own AT hike?
Find out how you measure up.Even after the month of rain in Maine we ended up running into a drought in Virginia. And so, while an abundance of fresh water is very good, Curse and I were happy to see...
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The Grayson Highlands, or Ponies 101
This state park surrounds a cluster of bald mountains and was perfectly colored in the fall, when we were there. The main attractions, of course, are the wild ponies that graze on the mountain tops....
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Bob Peoples: AT Legend
Bob Peoples.Bob Peoples. A name that makes babies coo, and criminals run for the hills. A man of amazing strength, intelligence and persuasion. The only man who could take down Chuck Norris. The man...
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My name is Woody Farmer
The key Woody gave me.The story of Woody Farmer is surprisingly simple. I mean, we knew the man for less than a day. Still, it took us 10 states to complete his story...Part 1: It all began back in New...
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