Hiking Season?

As you may have noticed, the "Plug" half of Team Snowplug has done all the posting here at the Team Snowplug blog. I thought it was about time for the "Snow" half to chime in. To, most likely, drag this blog down. The initial plan was to use this blog to post the reports from our hikes on the AT—hopefully, our hikes of us finishing the AT this summer. But, D became addicting to posting, so she's been blah blah blahing like crazy. Time for me to blah blah, and talk about hiking.

We haven't gotten out hiking yet this season, but we've definitely been thinking about it. We have 287 miles to go and limited vacation time. It's going to be a busy summer. I think we'll be able to get it all done this summer, but we'll have to be focused. I'm pretty excited to get out and finish up these remaining miles.

One of the tricks will be actually getting to these hikes. Section hiking is logistically difficult. It's really hard. We have to get rides here and there; take car a to point b along with car c and drive back to point d hike to point b to pick up car a and then drive to point d to pick up car c...or something like that. It's also going to be even more difficult this summer because most of the trail we've yet to hike is in Maine, and the trail in Maine is fairly remote. We also have to deal with potential road closures due to logging and ferry schedules over the Kennebec. It really is a logistical nightmare. The moral of the story: Don't get injured trying to thruhike. It's a pain in the butt...or back in my case.

That being said, I'm really looking forward to it. Our section hike to complete the AT has been completely different experience from our attempted thruhike. And now, a couple years removed from the disappointment of 2005, I actually am glad it worked out this way. We've been able to experience both ways to hike the AT. It's been fun, and I'm sure it will be the same this summer...especially because we don't have to hike in Pennsylvania. PA sucks.