Friday, 19 August Destination: Zealand Falls Hut (1841.2) Today’s Miles: 9.8 Start Location: Lake of the Clouds Hut (1860.0) Trip Miles: 24.7 This is to let you know photos for the last few days are posted. I will try to update today’s journal later today but Internet service is spotty. Over three inches of rain fell yesterday…
2022 Appalachian Trail II – Day 3 – Unplanned Zero
Thursday, 18 August Destination: Lake of the Clouds Hut (1860.0) Today’s Miles:0.0 Start Location: Lake of the Clouds Hut (1860.0) Trip Miles: 14.9 Wet hikers continued to come on last night. Since the croo does not turn them away, there were about a dozen hikers sleeping on the floor of the dining room. The croo wakes you with…
2022 Appalachian Trail II – Day 2 – Rain, Rain, Stay Away
Wednesday, 17 August Destination: Lake of the Clouds Hut (1860.0) Today’s Miles: 7.1 Start Location: Madison Spring Hut (1867.1) Trip Miles: 14.9 Last evening two thru hikers stopped at the hut. Usually two thru hikers are able to work for stay. They cleanup after dinner, sweeping and wiping tables. They get any leftover dinner and get to sleep…
2022 Appalachian Trail II – Day 1 – Welcome to the Whites
Tuesday, 16 August Destination: Madison Spring Hut (1867.1) Today’s Miles: 7.8 Start Location: Joe Dodge Lodge (1874.9) Trip Miles: 7.8 Wedding Walker arrived last night just after eight. He settled in and had some dinner. We turned in early planning to have breakfast when it opened at 6:30. Well the breakfast croo was a little off. Breakfast was…
2022 Appalachian Trail II – Day 0 – Pinkham Notch
Monday, 15 August Destination: Joe Dodge Lodge (1874.9) Today’s Miles: 0 Back in September of 2020 while hiking with my regular partner, Bob, we spent a rainy night in a shelter with another hiker, Wedding Walker, and four recent high school graduates. Wedding Walker, Steve, is my age and from Chicago. Wedding Walker and I carried…
2022 Appalachian Trail I – Epilogue
18 May – 11 June Destination: Hitching Post Country Motel (1482.5) Start Location: Lehigh River South Bank (1260.5) Trip Miles: 222.0 On Sunday, Bob’s wife, Janice, and daughter, Nicole, picked us up at the Hitching Post Country Motel in Cornwall Bridge, Connecticut, for our return to civilization. With the Saturday night stay at the motel we were showered…
2022 Appalachian Trail I – Photo Album
Photo Album This photo album includes my photos and Bob’s photos for all days in one place.
2022 Appalachian Trail I – Bob’s Photo Album
Bob’s Photo Album Photos taken by Bob have been included in each day’s update but are available here if you do not want to look through each day again.
2022 Appalachian Trail I – Day Twenty Five – All Things Must End
Saturday, 11 June Destination: Cornwall Bridge – Hitching Post Country Motel (1482.5) Today’s Miles: 4.1 Start Location: Stewart Hollow Brook Shelter (1478.4) Trip Miles: 222.0 Two hundred twenty two Appalachian Trail miles plus sidetrails from the Lehigh River, PA, to Cornwall Bridge, CT. It was 52 degrees, the overnight low, when Bob and I awoke. Another good night…
2022 Appalachian Trail I – Day Twenty Four – Last Full Day
Friday, 10 June Destination: Stewart Hollow Brook Shelter (1477.4) Today’s Miles: 7.3 Start Location: Mount Algo Shelter (1471.1) Trip Miles: 217.9 The temperature cooled to 53 overnight which made for comfortable sleeping. Although Bob and I were up early we had breakfast with coffee and relaxed since we planned a short day. We were the last hikers to…