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Alrighty, and a-here we go...!
40 minutes (thereabouts) and I am out the door on this grand adventure ( Read more... ) -
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I can't believe I'm actually doing this. And leaving early tomorrow morning.
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Gear, Routes, and Weather Update
I have the gear all packed up now, and the backpack straps fitted. I also have a canvas handle bag going with me, to carry the thermal sleeping bag, rain gear, personals and claw hammer...to be held in place at the bottom of the pack with my old belt. Necessity is the mother of invention! All that's left is charging the batteries on everything ( ( Read more... ) -
Gear Gift and Weather
Last post I mentioned that I needed to excavate one of the decent flashlights from somewhere inside this house. Today, at the in-laws', Dad hands me a package and says its something that may come in handy on my trip...it's an LED crank-to-charge flashlight! I took it out of the package after we got home today, cranked it up (rather easy to do at ( Read more... ) -
Amassing the supplies, Part 1
Well, I have officially started putting everything together for the M&M Hike that begins next Friday, May 15th. The first item crossed off the list is "Food Stuffs". I have purchased (and largely repackaged) most of my stuffs that I'm taking with me for meals and nibbles on the trail, including ( Read more... ) -
What did I just sign on for...??
As you all reading this may know, I am doing a 3-day hike through pieces of the M&M, coming up in May. 15th through 17th, to be precise ( Read more... ) -
it counts as exercise!
On Saturday, I took the young Mister to Boston for an adventure. This has become somewhat of a tradition on the weekends that Daddy is away for conventions, and we have fun with it. Last time, we visited the Aquarium, and walked through it on a scavenger hunt to find turtle stamps that we were to collect, and we successfully got all six of them ( Read more... ) -
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I am going to end the poll (somehow) regarding a trail-name on Friday in two days, on the 17th. Make your opinion heard by then!!
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I went for my first warm-up hike today. I did a partial of Section 2 of the Metacomet-Monadnock, just to see how the body would take it. And I have some work to do. The lungs and heart need more workout than what I've been giving them--I did maybe a couple hundred feet of elevation gain, and was panting along the way. It took the heart rate a ( Read more... ) -
To Trail-Name, or Not to Trail-Name...?
This is the question!
I have heard that people who hike the AT will adopt trail names for themselves, as you're never too sure who you're going to meet on the trail, and equally can be unsure whether or not you want these people finding you IRL. I realize that 3 days on the M-M Trail is definitely nothing compared to a few months hiking the AT, but ( Read more... )