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#71
05-20-2007, 03:15 PM
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Re: Ask crash about hiking the Appalachian Trail
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Ok some questions : What did you eat most of the time? Did you make fires most nights? What do you do in the rain? Did you bring a tarp? I'm assuming your tent wasn't waterproof and you probably didn't have a dry-sack ? Are hiking boots really advised? I've done a lot of hiking in boots and out (but never anything crazy long) and I never got used to boots and prefer just wearing some kind of trail-runner type of shoe. (actually I'm drooling over "ascent shoes" these days which are like climbing/hiking/running hybrids). [/ QUOTE ] I carried a stove for the first 200 miles, but I got tired of it. I hated cleaning the pot and futzing with the stove. I said to hell with it and went with cold food the rest of the trip. Granola, gorp, cereal, peanut butter, tuna fish, jerky, cheese, crackers, doughnuts. I tried to carry around tradable stuff (Nutter Butters were good for this) that I could trade for some hot noodles every once in a while. Most people carried stoves and made noodle dishes. I never made fires. If it rained and it was warm I just kept hiking. Anything I wanted to keep dry in my pack, I used trash compactor plastic bags--really tough and resistant to holes. If it was pouring rain, I would try to wait it out before I set my tent up. Most tents are good at keeping you dry; putting one up while it's raining can be a little tricky though. Yeah, I think a nice trail runner hybrid thingie, which has ankle support but will also dry out quickly, would be a good way to go. 
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#72
05-20-2007, 03:19 PM
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Re: Ask crash about hiking the Appalachian Trail
for those wondering how to deal with the Deliverance-style attacks by crazed rednecks, I recommend carrying Ned Beatty on your back in the Southern states. He will absorb the punishment, leaving you intact.
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#74
05-20-2007, 04:07 PM
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Re: Ask crash about hiking the Appalachian Trail
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does the AT go through mt Washington? how crazy is the weather up there [/ QUOTE ] Yeah it does. It's strange, because you (as a hiker going south to north) approach Mt. Washington after having hiked through some fairly remote and rugged terrain. You go up one side (there are signs on the way up that caution you about the weather, and all but promise certain and grisly death), and you've been isolated for so long, and you crest over the top and see all these tourists who took the train/bus up the other side. I got freaked out by all the people. They didn't sell cigs up there either, those bastards. Weather when I went up was sunny and breezy. I guess it can get ugly fast. http://www.mountwashington.com/weather/index.html check out the picture of the building encased in ice.
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