I know some of you are planning to hike the entire Applachian trail some day. Maybe you have already started making plans. Just for your information, the average thru-hike takes 5-7 months and that's at a 13-15 mile per day average, but only 20% of the people who start the hike actually finish. As of 2005, only 8,425 people have completed the whole trail. I know some of your names will be added to that list.
For those of you who don't know about this, the Appalachian National Scenic Trail is a 2,174-mile footpath along the ridgecrests and across the major valleys of the Appalachian Mountains from Springer Mountain in northern Georgia to Katahdin in Maine. The trail traverses Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Maryland, West Virginia, Virginia, Tennessee, North Carolina and Georgia. Doing it all at once is very difficult!
Just for fun, you can follow two people from Connecticut who did the northerly hike of the entire trail last year. Carrie and Derrick Ellis have a web site with pictures, movies, a well-
researched gear list, and more. Keep hiking!
The web site: www.ellishiking.com
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