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I’m off! Thanks Rhonda for taking me to the border and for the photo. Still nervous excited! Lots of “Trail Names” out here.  Met “Tripod” and “Ranger Rick!” They were beaming; at the end of…

Ahhhhhhhhhhh. I’m waiting for my ride to the PA-MD line. My pulse must be approaching 70! (It’s usually about 48)  I’m excited/scared. What was I thinking? No shower until Monday night? No normal food. No…

I’m here in Harper’s Ferry!  Couldn’t sit still so I came early. I’m in the Knights Inn…I can feel the ghosts of a hundred hikers who have showered here and attacked the diner across the…

Did you do that when you were a kid? Measure the time to an exciting event by how many sleeps were left? I did.  I still do. On Friday morning I will shower at 5AM.…

There’s nothing for me quite like dawn. My father used to get his 3 boys up in the dark to go fishing. Those mornings we’re magic to me.  Now they are some of my fondest…

This is my only photo!  Next time I will shoot more. Yesterday was about finishing and yes we finished! Me and my friend Karma (I know it’s bad English but I had to put me…

This hike was different today from all the others.  It was meant to be just a training day in preparation for my first attempt at 20. Karma invited me. Karma is a hiker.  An expert…

These photos are from my hike from the Delaware Water Gap to a spot cammed “Lunch Rocks. ” I think it was about 12 or so miles… It was a tough down to the car…

So.  Saturday night after the Pig Roast (where I only ate sweet stuff for some weird reason) I camped here at the Cabin Craft Campground.  My plan was to hike from here the 6 or…

I got back yesterday from an overnight hike and camp in the Mohonk Preserve. I’ll get to my lower GI distress later. Let me load the photos… Yes.  Messy.  I never pack like this.  I…