I spread out all the maps on the kitchen table. They are in 11 packets, 3-5 maps per packet. The AT is meticulously mapped. If Lewis and Clark would have had maps as good they could have cut a year off their journey. Each set of maps also has a guide book with mileage between roads, shelters, water sources. Very convenient. But who wants to carry all those maps and guidebooks with them? Not me and Jen won’t do it for me either.
So I spread them all out, separated them into sections, found the nearest post office to the beginning of each section and made a list and a mailing label. As we approach these 10 post offices Amy will mail the next set of maps to us. I have also torn the Thru Hikers Handbook into the same sections and included them with the maps.
I guess it is ok to say we are on an adventure. It is even ok to say an outdoor adventure. But it is definitely not a wilderness adventure.
All 1274 miles of the AT is marked with the white blaze. This picture is one of the white blazes we followed when we hiked in New Hampshire in 2003. So hiking from Georgia to Maine is easy. Just follow the white blazes.
The side trails are also marked with blazes, but these are colored blue. Jen thinks that is the origin of a phrase. Whenever you miss a turn and find a blue blaze instead of a white blaze you say, “What in the blue blazes am I doing here?” I thought that was pretty astute of her.
So I spread them all out, separated them into sections, found the nearest post office to the beginning of each section and made a list and a mailing label. As we approach these 10 post offices Amy will mail the next set of maps to us. I have also torn the Thru Hikers Handbook into the same sections and included them with the maps.
I guess it is ok to say we are on an adventure. It is even ok to say an outdoor adventure. But it is definitely not a wilderness adventure.
All 1274 miles of the AT is marked with the white blaze. This picture is one of the white blazes we followed when we hiked in New Hampshire in 2003. So hiking from Georgia to Maine is easy. Just follow the white blazes.
The side trails are also marked with blazes, but these are colored blue. Jen thinks that is the origin of a phrase. Whenever you miss a turn and find a blue blaze instead of a white blaze you say, “What in the blue blazes am I doing here?” I thought that was pretty astute of her.
3 comments:
Rodger, I think that your plan of mailing information in packets along the trail to reduce weight is creative! What an adventure! I can sense the excitment level rising! - Bill R.
wuss.
you do mean all 2174 miles is mapped right, not just 1274 of them...that would put me right back at the same level of anxiousness as i had when you first told me you were going....
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