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Day 93 Miles Hiked: 4.3 AT Milage: 1219.3 Stealth Spot to Port Clinton Last night around 4am I woke up to some strange sounds outside my tent. It was a loud huffing noise. I was really hoping it was just one of my friends who I was camping with, but if it wasn't it wasContinue reading "Day 93: Port Clinton"

Day 92 501 Shelter to Stealth Spot Miles Hiked: 19.7 Miles AT Milage: 1215.2 This morning I woke up and got my stuff together. I ate my cold oatmeal and then sat around at camp with everyone else. Jason, who drove us to town yesterday came to the shelter and told us that they wereContinue reading "Day 92: Swimming Hole"

Day 91 Rausch Gap to 501 Shelter Miles Hiked: 17.5 AT Milage: 1195.5 Last night I was u comfortably cold. I woke up at 5:30 and realized I wasn't going back to sleep so I packed up real fast and left at 6:10am. The first Interesting thing I came across was a beaver dam. IContinue reading "Day 91: Beaver Dam Blazing"

Clark's Ferry Shelter to Rausch Gap Shelter Miles Hiked: 24.7 AT Milage: 1178.0 This morning I woke up at 7am. I let myself sleep as long as I needed to because I was getting such good sleep and my body really needed to recover from the 33 mile day still. When I woke up IContinue reading "Day 90: A long one"

Cove Mountain to Clark's Ferry Shelter Miles Hiked: 8.3 AT Milage: 1153.3 After our long day of hiking and late night of cowboy camping, Flamingo and I woke up and hit the trail at 8:30. We wondered if anyone walked by and saw us passed out on the side of the trail. I was deadContinue reading "Day 89: In and Out of Duncannon"

Day 88 James Fry Shelter to Cover Mountain Shelter Miles Hiked: 33.6 AT Milage: 1145.0 This morning I woke up at 6am and got on the trail just after 6:35. I was on a mission to get to the post office before they closed for their afternoon lunch break. All my stuff was still wetContinue reading "Day 88: Going Postal in the Cumberland Valley"

Day 87Birch Run Shelter to James Fry ShelterMiles Hiked: 17.1AT Milage: 1111.4Today I woke up around 7am exhausted from sleeping less than five hours last night. Flamingo and I got ready and hit the trail at 7:30. The terrain was pretty rocky for me, but very gentle so we moved pretty fast. We passed theContinue reading "Day 87: Half Gallon Challenge"

Day 86 Chimney Rocks to Birch Run Shelters Miles Hiked: 18.4 AT Milage: 1094.3 Last night I slept okay, except from 12-3am I was awake. It's better than a lot of other nights I've had on the trail. I started getting ready at 6:20 and left camp at 7:15 after doing all my stretches. MyContinue reading "Day 86: Water Slide Wednesday"

Day Raven Rock Shelter to Chimney Rocks Miles Hiked: 14.4 AT Milage: 1075.9 This morning I slept in until 7am because I got such good sleep last night. I was slow to get ready. There was no rush since Flamingo and I planned out an easy 13-14 mile day today. We are meeting his momContinue reading "Day 85: Welcome to Rocksylvania"

Day 84 Rocky Run Shelter to Raven Rock Shelter Miles Hiked: 20.6 AT Milage: 1061.5 Last night it started downpouring as soon as I got in my tent. At first I was dry and I was very happy with how well the tent was holding up. It actually keeps the water out unlike my otherContinue reading "Day 84: Torrential Downpour"

Harpers Ferry, WV to Rocky Run Shelter Miles Hiked: 15.4 AT Milage: 1040.9 Today I got back on the trail close to 10am. I said goodbye to my boyfriend who dropped me off at the ATC. It was really sad to see him drive away knowing I won't see him again until I am finishedContinue reading "Day 83: Back to Business"

I won't go into all the details of what I spent my long break from the trail doing, but I will talk about the things I did to try and help my feet heal a little bit and how I felt about being away from the trail. The first needs I had filled when IContinue reading "Day 75-82: Rest, Recovery, and Reset"

Black Burn ATC to Harpers Ferry ATC Miles Hiked: 11.8 AT Milage: 1024.8 Today I woke up on the porch of the Blackburn ATC center at 7am. I slept less than 4 hours again last night which was super frustrating. I was worried about my phone never turning back on and I was in tooContinue reading "Day 74 : Psychologically Half-way"

Rod Hollow Shelter to Blackburn AT Center Miles Hiked: 17.9 AT Milage: 1013.0 This morning I was really lazy about leaving camp because I slept so little late night. I also talked a little bit to all the new people that I had never met before. In this new group of people was about 4-6Continue reading "Day 73: Thanksgiving in June"

Day 72 Tom Floyd Shelter to Rod Hollow Shelter Miles Hiked: 26.5 AT Milage: 995.1 This morning I left the shelter first around 7am. I wanted to make good timing today and make sure to stop and do all my stretches at every break. As I got closer to the first road that I hadContinue reading "Day 72: Feeling Good?"