August 21, 2019 “$40 cash would make that happen” I heard the voice on the phone say. John was arranging a shuttle across Netarts Bay with Zach at Big Spruce RV. This would be our third water shuttle in three days on our walk of the Oregon Coast Trail. It was 1 o’clock in the …
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Oregon Coast Trail: Visitors
August 17, 2019 Fourth day on the trail. We got out from the Hiker camp on Tillamook Head at the leisurely hour of 9 a.m. It was raining oh so lightly. We took off our rain jackets, even! Our morning walk continued another two miles through the forest, descending to the beach at Ecola State …
Oregon Coast Trail: Underway
August 14, 2019 Our first three miles of the Oregon Coast Trail is a shakedown for the rest of the trip. The Fort Stevens State Park staff who registered us for the Hiker Biker Site said we could park our van there for the extent of our trip! They are really supporting us as hikers, …
Oregon Coast Trail: First Day
August 15, 2019 I walked all day along the beach and didn’t have to turn back. Last Spring, while walking on the beach in San Diego, I wondered what it would be like to just keep walking along the coast, all the way to Washington. Today, on our first full day on the coast of …
Thruhiker Celebrity?
“Thruhikers are celebrities!” I read that in a women’s hiking group and chuckled. I don’t feel special! I walked the Appalachian Trail from Maine to Georgia within a year’s time, so I am a thruhiker. As a thruhiker, how I know about myself is that I fulfilled my dream of being able to say, “I …
2000 Miler Anniversary
November 15, 2017 What would I feel when I crossed that road, meeting the spot where I had left the trail two years before? When I got there I could celebrate having walked all 2,175 miles of the Appalachian Trail. The spot lacked the drama of Mt. Katahdin or Springer Mountain, the geographic endpoints of …
Photos from High Country Week
Click on this link for my album of photos from my week in the Mt Rogers, VA High Country from August 3 – 7, 2017: https://goo.gl/photos/j6BgrzGCi5upmBeC7
My Message
Here’s what I said to a woman struggling to lighten her pack. “And now, if you’re game for an even deeper exploration, it has helped me immensely to delve into clarifying my purpose for walking. I realized that the trail is a blank canvas on which I paint my own journey, design my own fulfillment. …
Maps for the Appalachian Trail near Springer Mtn., GA
I received a text message from a friend: “My sister and I want to begin a hike at Springer Mountain in mid-July. Do you have maps we can borrow or recommend the best maps?” My maps are in storage in Virginia while I work out in California! Besides, once you step on the Appalachian Trail, …
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Completion!
September 4, 2016, 1:00 p.m. Tadah! John and I reached our goal of Killington Peak, Vermont, the point that marks where we have walked all of the Appalachian Trail at least twice! When I set out to do a thruhike of the AT in 2007, my aim was to start in Maine and at least …