Appalachian Trail Through-hike 2019

Adventures of Jim, Sherry and Lily

So...we are driving across the Mississippi River on the way home to New Mexico and Jim says, "Maybe for our next adventure we should raft...

As you can imagine, there have been many things I have wanted to talk about in our blog along the way, but just never seemed to have the...

Jim finished up Massachusetts and hiked through Vermont in just a week—good riddance! He has been the least impressed with the AT through...

I dropped Jim off for his first day hiking without me. It was a bit emotional for Jim as his hike has become a very different kind of...

We took the long, steep, sideways blue blaze to the West Mountain Shelter in order to see the New York City skyline lit up at night....

For our first night returning to the trail in Wawayanda State Park, we were greeted with trail magic that turned into a nice evening of...

Our hike from Pine Grove to Wind Gap turned out being quite eventful. We extended our zero days due to impending rainstorms that lasted...

Our first day out of Boiling Springs was a big 15-mile hike to the next water source at Darlington Shelter. It seemed that it should have...

After taking a "zero" (hiker lingo for not walking any miles for the day), we returned to the trail walking passed the Mason Dixon Line...

Most thru-hikers have trail names that they go by while on the trail. If you don’t have them when you start out, one is usually assigned...