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Showing posts with label Thoughts of the Hike. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Thoughts of the Hike. Show all posts
Monday, November 11, 2013

Book Release Party Day 2 - Hiking the Appalachian Trail as a Teenager

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Day 2 of the Book Release Party features an interview with the companion on a trip of 2,000 plus miles, Joshua Bliss, who hiked the trail wi...
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Monday, October 24, 2011

Quitting a Hike - Valuable Insights

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Why doesn't one finish the hike they had planned? Following up on an earlier blog I wrote on a similar topic, I wanted to share this ve...
Thursday, February 24, 2011

Southbound vs Northbound Part II - The Social Aspects

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Day One on the Approach Trail to Springer Mtn, GA March 5, 2007 Yes, there is nothing like the solitude of a wilderness experience. The ...
Friday, December 31, 2010

Out with the Old but Amazing 2010 Hiking Journey

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Wow. 2010 saw me on a wild adventure AT-wise I did not plan to do. I had begun section hiking the AT in my home state of Virgina, as you c...
Wednesday, September 16, 2009

Two Year Anniversary of a Trail

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Putting a pebble from Springer Mountain, Georgia on the sign atop Mt. Katahdin, Maine This Friday, September 18th, marks the two year comple...
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Wednesday, March 04, 2009

Two Years Ago....

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I was getting ready to head out on my own "adventure of a lifetime" (to quote the title of one of my favorite hiking books - Ed Ga...
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Saturday, March 22, 2008

God on the Trail

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Being Easter weekend - Happy Easter! - I wanted to share this photo I took just off the Appalachian Trail in northern Pennsylvania during ou...
Tuesday, March 04, 2008

One Year Ago...

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Hard to believe that a year ago to this day, we were heading to Georgia to begin a six month adventure on the Applachian Trail. Then the st...
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Saturday, February 02, 2008

Sickness BAD

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The View from Springer Mountain, Georgia Okay, I am getting it bad. SPRINGER FEVER. I was out...
Friday, January 18, 2008

An Author of the Trail

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What does a handwritten piece of paper have to do with the love of writing? It is a simple, homemade sign I made at the completion of my hi...
Monday, January 14, 2008

Trail Birthday

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I just celebrated my birthday back on January 12th and although I did not have a birthday on the trail, my son, Paul Bunyan did. The day bef...
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Tuesday, January 08, 2008

Contemplation

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I write this with a heavy heart. I, among many other hikers, are mouring the loss of one of our own - a young hiker, out for a walk on New Y...
Wednesday, January 02, 2008

The End of an Era... It Seems

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Okay, I will admit it. I shed tears when the hour drew to an end. What a banner year 2007 was for me. Completing the Appalachian Trail with ...
Thursday, December 27, 2007

A Different Christmas

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Well, it was a different Christmas for us. The night of December 24th, I developed a horrific stomach flu that lasted until the afternoon of...
Sunday, November 18, 2007

I Have Seen and Felt God

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I just read the blog of a writing friend I had met at a writer's conference a few years back and how she is now suffering with a maligna...
Thursday, November 01, 2007

The News Begins...

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I was out for a run today - I've been doing that to keep myself in some kind of shape and sanity, really, when I spied a newspaper in ou...
Thursday, October 11, 2007

Into the Limelight

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Well, sort of.... I had my first newspaper interview today about the hike. My son Joshua and I sat down with a reporter from the Daily Progr...
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Monday, September 24, 2007

The Trail is Finished!

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We did it! After six and a half grueling months, we completed the entire Appalachian Trail, starting March 5th via the Approach Trail to Spr...
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