Evan’s Appalachian Trail Thru-Hike: Full Documentary

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r's crossing and I think those little backpacks are representative of the real thing, so the bear problem didn't disappoint last night. There are about 40 people and the shelter camped around the

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. Here is the New York Deli, open 24 hours. / Shell Station I've made it this far there's really no point in giving in to the stress that's for sure and it's time for dinner near the cloud pond lean towards yours Yelp we're all camped out in different spaces oh it's a good time. I think pulling out the map I started here in Georgia and Here I am here in New Hampshire, but there's still a long way to go, but there's still a lot of trace of New Hampshire left.

I love Maine, it's going to be hard. one, so my number is two thousand three hundred and seventy-three, a lot of people are directing me north on 18, less already left it, so I think April 21 and April 22, I think that's a date Quite traditional start. Earl Shafer, April 1-22. the hacker didn't start until April Grandma Gatewood Emma Gatewood didn't start her

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until May 2 hiker gen SP started her hike on the last day of May is a heater working the heater working there is no heater here this is the oldest shelter in the 18 built in 1934, but there are many people who stay here because this time of year it would take boats to use the Blood Mountain shelter and Haiti through Hecker's does not take naked boats. they only carry bags of food, Blood Mountain is the highest point in Georgia on the 80.

I could proudly recite the elevation which I'm not going to do because it probably wouldn't mean much to anyone unless you climb a lot of mountains and if you climbed a lot of mountains and you'd hear elevation and you would say it is not a mountain, however it is the highest point of the gorge at 80 Yale Gap. I'm going to cross the mountain and resupply. It was closing last night when I got here, so I stayed at Frog Town Gap. This place used to be called until Mr. Neal built the road, he was the chief engineer who built the road across this gap which was in the 1920's since it was Neil's Gap or Neil's Gap, both have Right, someone here had an unfortunate collapse.

I guess it was so bad they had to leave their tent it's another ghost camp this one is worse because there's a whole bag of food here why would anyone leave this here for the Bears this is my place for the night the wind is coming from this direction in It's actually starting to rain again but I don't think it's going to last long and I'm pretty close to the shelter there, some tent sites and such, on the other side of the

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. I couldn't pawn the food to anyone, some of them already knew about it.

I checked it and decided it was too wet, but whatever the Indian Tomb gap is at 10:25 and someone is cooking downstairs, now this is real trail magic. I'm getting rid of this bag of food in this garbage bag and I'm I'm happy to get rid of it, what's its name? I'm pretty sure it's eel talk. Neil has to see, here goes, music, these are locals, thank you all. Well, I'm headed to Dick's Creek Gap. I'm going to resupply at the top of Georgia Lodge and I'm having breakfast on the trail which is something you can do when you're not using trekking poles and today there's another purpose to get rid of all my food before resupplying so this is my replenishment to last.

It takes me about four days to NOC, where I will resupply again. I'm emphasizing fat over sugar. I also have olive oil. I have a large container of olive oil because it's hard to find anywhere. It is a very condensed form of calories. You don't add water to it, like you probably do with some of these other products, so it's all nutrients and I have a little bit of sugar. I will eat these Clif bars throughout the day slowly. Yes, I do a hike made in North Carolina, that's the sign. That indicates that and here under the rock is my friend Buckles, another point of interest.

So above Simon Sylar's ball looking at Wyatt's ball, here's a view from the top of the fire tower looking north, right in the center of the image is the lake. Montana and then to the right is the big peak, the biggest peak to the right is Clingmans Dome, so why do we walk more two points? Maybe because Mike, you're walking fine. I am a backpacker and the ATAC trail is long and difficult. so it's that simple. I went a little further than I intended today. I'm about 10 miles from Fontana Dam. I'm a little beyond the gap and have a view of one side of the ridge and the view toward Fontana Dam on the On the other side of the ridge, I climbed a hill.

I just passed the Hog Back gap. The trail is way down somewhere, so this is Fontana Lake and I'm crossing the dam that was built in the early 1940s as part of World War II. The war effort under the lake somewhere is one of five concentration camps established in the 1830s by General Winfield Scott to contain the Cherokee Indians. North Carolina is part of the Trail of Tears. Some of the Cherokee hid in the hills and cabins and mixed with their neighbors we now sometimes call the Southern Highlanders, eventually becoming the Eastern Band of Cherokees who are still here in the Cherokee City area and the surrounding region, just down the mountain from Newfound Gap.

There is a great museum in Cherokee if you are If you are interested you should visit it, some of these old forest trees can stay dead for decades before they fall and then take decades for the K people to be putting up tents and I mean I camp outside , so I show you my setup in a second shelter there. where I'm pointing through the trees that I set up in this little, I don't know, little forest, little trees on the ground, this is the live bug, the bitty bug with both sides tied at both ends and if we go to rain, I'd put a tarp on top of that, this trail to Clemens Dome has to be the best ever.

This is a spruce forest, they are only found at very high elevations, mainly in the Smokies. I think, unfortunately, it's mostly spruces. This one died from a beetle infestation, it kills spruce trees, the different claimants, y'all, she passed a bit of a foggy high point on the way up, so it's probably all downhill from here. I bet someone else has already said that here on Nippon. gap this is the spot right here where Franklin Delano Roosevelt FDR dedicated the park in 1940 for the permanent enjoyment of the people here is the famous sign at Newfound Gap it has one mile to Katahdin 80 hikers are advised not to look at this sign too closely and now, after having lunch with some of my friends, I'm approaching Charlie's bunion, which is the next major landmark on 80 in the Smokies 245 and I'm close to Charlie's bunion, it's right over my shoulder, in that direction, the views. they are not extraordinary today house in Nashville in just four hours, home sweet home.

I will eventually be home in a few days. Oh, I'll be near the hot springs and after the hot springs, it's all new to me as far as hiking and getting off the trail. Now I'm heading to Standing Bear Farm and Lodge, where I'm going to resupply and spend the night on the trail early. When I left, it was raining just a couple of minutes ago, but it stopped. I guess I temporarily have to save my umbrella for today. The interesting destination is Big Bald. We are looking at the Bald Mountains and the tallest is Big Bald from a distance of 4.5 miles.

Where I'm headed. I have reached the edge of Big Bald. I can't believe I'm here. It seemed very far away not long ago, but one thing I've learned on this trip is that the mountains always seem much farther away than they really are five thousand five hundred and sixteen feet. It is the highest point on the Appalachian Trail among the Greats. The Smoky Mountains and their own Highlands are coming up so the highest point in 148 miles and yes it's a little stormy but it's not raining right now it's windy as hell Mike it's really windy okay , I made it Derwin, I resupply Dunkel Johnny's.

For about a day and a half I ate some food, then looked at my guidebook and started again. Now I have a lot of climbing to do for probably the next day and a half. An important milestone here. I'm a significant peg floor because at this point, I finally leave the Tennessee border with North Carolina and venture into Tennessee for a couple of days until I reach Virginia. It's probably a good time to pull out the map, so I started there on Springer Mountain. I've been through Hot Springs now. I'm almost in Damascus but they've already passed Irwin, there's a little place where I leave the border and enter Tennessee, that's where I am now and I'll be in Damascus and there's a few more days left on Friday, here's the whole way.

I haven't gone very far yet, a while ago and Liz, her real name is handstand, was walking around with diabetes and she talked to him about her latest video where she's taking a break from YouTube because of some bad treatment she's been getting. in the comments and we talked about it, but she plans, I think she will continue making videos. The trail days party starts early before arriving in Damascus or trail magic competing in trail magic. I told you the party starts early. Hello, Connor and lonely, I think I am. Now Bearded Grandpa, Bearded Groundhog, well I'm Bearded Groundhog, I was formerly a bushwalker and that's doing a handstand, my childhood days have been a success so far.

I replaced the hip belt on my pack, sent it home, bought a new pack, washed my feet and the best. everything and I went to Food City and bought strawberries, cantaloupe, an apple and a bunch of cherry tomatoes. I ate them all, so now I feel very healthy. I'm walking the Creeper trail, man, this is an 80 hacker we arrested. them or something like that, you know, I had a day off and I thought I needed to be on a trail and this trail requires no walking, no paddling, just braking and it's highly recommended, so I finished hiking for the day.

I'm camping near where the Virginia Creeper Trail on 80 runs contiguously together for some stretches and near a railroad trestle and some water with some other hikers. It's a cool place that turns into a cloud here. First phone service in about two days everyone is gathering. Hello Boni, wants to be on YouTube, it turns out that the bear has six bags in bags of dirt and for sex with regular food that is from the hikers who come after us and that is incredible, these ponies are surrounded by a volunteer every year. The cowboys have their health checked and if it hurts too. big access is sold at auction here's my three and a half day supply it's probably 3300 calories a day if I can eat that much in the parking lot of the Travel Inn I think this whole thing is

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of hikers new hat I have this At Walmart I don't like it, They didn't have much choice, but Tennessee's hats to go home are too dirty.

I'm going to buy a new cap as soon as I get the chance, we'll have a pickup around nine. watch something we resolved yesterday was a local guy a little late for me to start but what I realized is that when you walk with a group you have to make compromises so I'm doing the best I can, I really do and this for the tomorrow for breakfast and actually last night for dinner. I ate some fresh things, some apples, some tomatoes. I'd be there like a cat photobombing my video back on the road. This is the time for tools.

Who was a moment of instant refuge the other day and him? He is the owner of a white bear resistant air bag that was stolen and here is the people demanding proof and now we have it the air bag opened by the bear and the time of the quick shelter five 47.5 a quarter of the 80 below and I want to get some reaction here from the gang's reaction, but I don't want to finish, that's handstand, aka listen Luke. Wonderful, I feel good, okay, great, thank you. I have a couple more sketches that I posted on Instagram, there's my canvas and then here. that's a hacker named Winder installed in the trash can at Mile 544 on the trail, which is cool, but please, no deer carcasses.

I got my new hat yesterday, it says Virginia Forever, which you should read since Virginia takes forever on the 80, by the way, Virginia. It's not flat and it has a lot of rocks, there is a real feeling that we are all in this together and everyone has come this far and it is something like forever, there are no pretenders left along the way. Now at night I stopped along a nice stream and set up my tarp, being Virginia, after setting up the tarp it rained for an hour. I'm nervous going out today and it's almost like I'm waking up in the morning to do a marathon.

I'm not nervous and I can't explain that, except that thinking about the miles around my house is not a good thing. I do not recommend it, you must take it day by day. thisthe sign says spy rock and it's point one off the trail and it's a great 360 degree view in all directions poured into hooks but it's raining and foggy so it's not worth it today unfortunately I'm going to have to walk. the 80s again next year I guess the exody will happen today even though it's still Virginia because as you know Virginia goes on forever, that's right, it's Shenandoah National Park, it looks like the rest of my genius so far.

The Black Rock Shelter or Cabin is a backbone here in Shenandoah and it was 21 miles to get here something like that and another six miles to find more campsites. You have to camp in the designated camping area. There hasn't been any water for glass in 12 miles, so stopping here was the best option. this is mine via a hiker friend, Oscar Trail, named Oscar, hey, and he has a more minimalist setup that I saw a few weeks ago and wanted to film it, so go, go, go, go, and the park runner itself It's usually only a mile or two wide, which might be why you tend to see a lot of bears or some people do anyway.

In Shenandoah National Park there are also some restaurants along the road called roadside and I'm about to reach the first one after 28 miles. Loft next to the mountain and I hope to have a shake and a burger again III also a long distance runner oh yes, yes, in 10 marathons, my best marathon was the main course, three hours and two minutes when I was four, plus sixty, they are coming. up at mile 900 and I know because I came up here yesterday to call Andrea and Sam and I saw the mile marker so I've been here and it's 900 miles the bugs are bad at this campground it's the worst ever had. been and bug bites on my feet for the last week or so, terribly scuffed and scuffed.

Nice place surprised they let hikers in here. Hey guys, what a great job everyone is doing and now it's time for breakfast. Today they are pine needles. The rocks yesterday I spoke too soon these big hills with sharp rocks are hurting everyone's feet so there is a film crew here on the side of the road walking around with a giant camera. Where are you from? I'm from St. Why are you? I had never been backpacking. before and I started hiking a little bit and as a challenge, which has been the hardest all the rain, yes it rained a lot, at first it was a cold rain, especially through the Smokies, here's the map.

I'm almost out of Virginia. That means I've done this whole part of the road and this is what's coming in all these states here, stay tuned, I hear the 8c changes a lot since it's had a lot more traffic up north, a lot less loneliness and stuff. You just have to deal with it and learn to accept it or you will have a hard time. There is some traffic there heading to Front Royal, very close to Front Royal Virginia, head north on the trail for a 22 mile day at a speed of 18. Tomorrow will be a great day to get to the bears, then the shelter where we will meet my daughter Lydia and she is going to walk with us for four or five days and how are you?

Today they are walking naked, there is a large crowd at the shelter. walking naked today miss Lydia hi Lydia hi daddy this mom look and Liz the smallest shelter from the 80's I love you but you'll be gone forever in the 80's it's the big dramatic cat tour West Virginia here I come I'm not going to turn my hat until I received a new one one morning. I haven't had a chance to wear my sunglasses lately, so wearing them is a protest, another brain. Do you know why someone walks the hip flexion path? It's crazy, starting with the fact that it rained all day.

Yesterday it rained all night and everything is wet again and smells bad. Now I like it personally, but I can't understand why there is someone else here on the road with me. It's crazy that the rain stops. It just drips off the leaves, so maybe. I'll change the soundtrack. We're going down to the trail here at Harpers Ferry and there's a giant river there, it's angry and brown and it's the Shenandoah River like in the John Denver song. I guess it can go to a river. Here's the ATC, Appalachian Trail Conservancy, they called this place that's a little bit off the trail.

The spiritual midpoint used to be located in Washington DC. Moved here in 1972. Okay, what's the cost? The cost to you will be Okay, I get the ATC member discount and I have a new hat. Go ahead, I'll go out and they'll take my photo. It is a lounge for hikers. These are books. Photos of hikers below. 1979-1981. Let's get one of these amazing ones out. This is the city. sent here, this is where we're staying tonight, yeah, Luke and Lizard down here. I'm sure they are already here in front of us. I have the camera in your face again.

You're making a big bonfire. Good job. You have a list. This is where the pickups happen. This will happen here in a parking lot right off 80, so you're Lydia, we'll fist bump and then in the video and then we'll hug in real life, at the shelter that's famous for having flowers, we don't, so we. We are arriving at the Pine Grove General Store, which is a location where the Half Gallon Challenge takes place. That's where you can eat a half gallon of ice cream, since you made it half

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. Sorry this is my half gallon challenge.

This is suicide. It's a better year you want a bike and to do the half gallon challenge you also have to eat an extra pint is anyone going to eat the extra pint? What type of ice cream would you like? One million dollars. I went swimming in that lake. He is the only hiker. that I saw and walked all the way to the deepest part came back and now it's time to walk a little further. I feel like I'm on this race eating program now in the morning, by the way there's a heat wave in the northeast.

Hey, it's supposed to be 96 degrees today and a lot of days like that, so yeah, it's hot even though I carry my shadow with me, just like these two vicious rocks, Pennsylvania, well, I don't know, maybe it's for starters, but I. I can still walk and feel nothing and we've had rocks like these everywhere. Okay, this seems like something, but it's still a lot of fun. Let me walk on it, even though it seems intimidating, it's not. looking a little worse up here I'm getting close to something called the knife's edge which I don't know what it is exactly it's not the knife's edge but Mike retreat I have at least a different one and I'm still a mile away so this is it a preliminary, so I guess and this is it, you walk along the edge here on rocks now there is a view to the right, it is the climb from Lehigh Gap 36 miles to Jersey.

I'm heading there. Andrea asked me if the walk so far has been more physically demanding than I thought and I would say day to day, no day, today I often feel like I could go further or should go further each day but I think it would be impossible because you know, if I do a series of long days I really feel beaten up. I'll have an over-the-shoulder view of New Jersey. I'm heading there because there's a guy at the fire tower and he works there, so what we do is To map the tower, you take it to the other side of the triangle.

Triangulation is the first. I have had two dogs at the same time in the city. I've been lucky, yeah, the weekends are wonderful, so that was Bob. keep it at the fire tower there's a Ridge Runner named Outlaw he was up there across the road actually I'm going to turn left supposedly there's a tavern Oh point two miles this way and they sell things like hamburgers and the traffic noise is really bad , but Sometimes you can imagine it in the forest. I'm looking forward to these zero days, not only because I'll get to see Andrea and Sam and that will be great, but because lately I've started to feel like I'm on a treadmill. getting up every day walking walking walking is so much fun we are finally all together again for a couple of days we went to four states New Jersey in New York and Connecticut and Rhode Island Rhode Island was not something planned we went to the beach stayed right there on the beach in a motel and we were able to walk a bit on the beach and relax in the hotel with lots of sand on the floor, we were able to eat a couple of meals with Luke and lives even though they were taking zeros on the different itinerary here We are just before leaving again for the forest back to New York and all the hugs we got to know each other very well it was really a very good moment although sad when I had to turn around and say hello Goodbye Andrea and Sam, there is a small staircase up here which was fun, except I dropped my camera while climbing, it still seems to be working.

New York, the big one also overlooking the Hudson River and right here, although it doesn't appear. and the camera is the Manhattan skyline. I can clearly see from here a late start this morning because the zoo doesn't open until 10:00 and you know of course what the 8080 passes for a zoo, the only rattlesnake I've seen on the trail so far bridge over the Hudson River I think I said around Front Royal Virginia that it gets very noisy and the trail changes as you go north and it's actually been very bad in Pennsylvania, New York, New Jersey, as long as you're aware of that it's OK, but it's not necessarily a wilderness experience in the mountains outside of New York City.

Now we've had a great time traversing beautiful, beautiful country here. Now you have a lot to wait for. They'll go to Connecticut and It's amazing how I say the southern boundaries are very different from the northern boundaries. We're in a cab, I can tell, and we're flying to Dale, they're going to Pauline, so here's the Mattel, it's a Dutchess Motor Lodge, let me. show you that's all this is outside it's raining you know about my nervousness in hotels and feeling like I can't go on you know I just think about wente thousands today and then I'll worry about the next day the next day and I'll be sure that the service Coolio's cab approaches the big tree and everyone is ready to head to Connecticut, which is why they call her Poppins when I receive my umbrella;

Thousands of people supposedly walk on an 80 every year, but that's not the case. It won't be left to the plant life that has taken over the trail, that's how they hiked through the 80's and 1800's to get it. It is a bomb for the whole body. Welcome to Connecticut, gateway to New England, walking along the Housatonic River again, like yesterday. Okay, forget what I said. on the summative aerial staff about thirty meters down the trail there is this I think this might be the summit don't worry I'm getting to the beautiful stuff. I must say that the Sages ravine section is really cool even in the rain and there are no road crossings.

There are no houses, we enter Massachusetts, we are in the clouds, a little scary, right there we approach the highway that will take us to Lee Massachusetts and we will stay at the Super 8, so last night it was Super 8, everyone is familiar with Jason Isabel. and his song super 8 I don't want to die in a super 8 motel just because someone's evening didn't go very well good song well we went to dinner with a guy who is going to help us named Brian and thank you Brian for that it was fun to have dinner with you, pioneer from Wisconsin, a flip flop that started in Virginia went north to Pennsylvania and then you went to Katahdin, no I'm going south so I have almost 1200 miles, I'm more than half done and New Hampshire is just as beautiful.

As people say, New Hampshire was very beautiful, it was not as difficult as other Maines. I almost left it in southern Maine, it was really hard, these random lakes that come out of nowhere are really cool, not much luck, that's next tomorrow. day I get even closer to where I am and it disappears, it shows you how it doesn't matter, a magical little trail here and I got it through hiker beer, it's not that amazing, it's a big deal, welcome, they differ a lot, so for about a hundred miles btw I'm hiking both trail 80 and the long trail of vermont the long trail of vermont the long trail is the oldest trail in the country it opened in 1921 before 80 february 25 and which It's the name of her trail trip just finished and she brought us some donuts this is everyone's favorite Yelp via hacker what are you drinking?

It says mocha and it's from England, that's right yeah, southwest whereabouts and I'm having trouble understanding it. I hope it's not offensive. He sounds like one of the Beatles. For me, he taught me to say water, water, water, that's pretty good, sitting today from Bennington, Vermont, with a group that stayed last night at the Knotty Pine Motel, there's no glass up here, we're in the clouds, the floors are wet but it's a lunch place however 12 miles to get to Rutland that's ramen to go to urgent care and get tested for lyme disease. I have had a fever for two days.

I haven't been able to eat, I'm very tired, everything hurts, sweating, man at night, it's not fun. walking with a beer, I think it's the worst thing I can think of to say to us. Vermont has been very wet, very muddy after the rain, so day 106 for me was zero. I don't feel much better, I still have night sweats. I still have no appetite and I haven't eaten much in four days, but I don't havefever. That's good. The first big climb today will be up to Killington Peak. It will be over 4,000 feet. Hey, I hope you did.

Don't miss a 500 mile sign, it is a trail that leads to Killington Peak 0.2 miles, it is very steep. I listened, but I think I'll do it. Yes, this trail is steep. I come from somewhere down there. Now we have a view. going there I think there's a lot down here this direction it's called Peak Lodge Hey look who's here I'm I'm leaving the long trail the long trail goes north to Canada and the 80 goes north the main trail bye , long, I apologize for putting you down and it was raining on me and I was sick for a couple of days to get to New Hampshire, which is exciting and then Mount Moosilauke will be the first mountain in a week and the whites is a ladder in the trail here there is a lookout and there is actually a perch on top of the roof, there are no storms in that direction.

I'm glad I got to the lookout when I did, so the line test came back negative, so I have some other problem. I've been going through all of this and I'm on schedule, but I think I should probably slow down at some point and get my strength back. I'll be in Hanover in a couple of days, that might be a good place to take a break for a while until I get my habits right, my strength returns here's the bridge over the Connecticut River as I run across the in Hampshire. I did it. I'm in New Hampshire.

I must say that I am very happy and hey, if you are one. Some of these people have been telling me for months to wait until I get to New Hampshire. Well, I was here last week. The wheels almost fell off the bus and they may still be watching to see what happens. First established in New Hampshire. chance of rain tonight a small chance I'm just using the baby bug I have a creek down there nice clean taste 113 and 114 or zero days I took them in Plymouth New Hampshire I did the responsible thing and went to the hospital and I got good medical advice and I was there most of the day, anyway they did a lot of tests during the time I spent in the hospital.

I think it was on an upward trend. I'm here a lot on top of Mount Moose and I'm glad to be here even on a boring day and even in recovery mode. I'm two days behind my group that I've been hiking with for so long, but I think I'll catch up. This is lonely. Lake hut south hut places in the woods where you can buy a bunk for a hundred or $150 are usually already reserved when you get there, sometimes three hikers are allowed to stay there for free if they agree to do some work, maybe it's called work on the first day wash the dishes maybe give a little lecture to the other guests about their walk, ironically, I'm alone in the whites, ironically because before this walk started I told Andrea, although I don't know if I will walk with others.

I think in the whites I don't want to do that part alone, so now ironically I'm alone in the whites and it really hasn't been that bad. I feel very confident about it. I think the two long solo trips. The trips I've taken over the past two years have prepared me well for this. It would have been nice to be with Liz here on this part. She and Luke are two days ahead of me. Lissa has hiked a lot in white and is very excited about Being Here she knows a lot of back trails and campgrounds and has been through the presidential election and that would have been helpful in planning my trail and I don't have that but like I said my confidence is high, it's working.

I'll catch up to them eventually and I'm looking forward to it, but that probably won't be until the lights have had some breakfast at the Galehead cabin, there were free leftovers. I arrived around 8:30 and now I'm heading towards South Wind Mountain, very steep South Wind Mountain and after that I don't know if I'm going to go as far as I can today most of the trails and the whites They're like that with a lot of rocks and roots and I always thought people said you'd slow down on the whites because of the elevation, but it's because it's hard to get a rhythm on the trails, you can't go too fast, that's the trail.

I can't really give you an idea how. It's steep and then this is in front of me it goes up like this well 17 miles today I reached Crawford notch I still have 3 hours of daylight it's only 5 o'clock I'd like to continue I'm 11 Miles from the leg at the cloud cabin which is just before Mount Washington. It would be great to be there tomorrow morning somehow because I really want to go to Mount Washington tomorrow and if I wait until tomorrow afternoon the conditions could make it impassable. so I need to be there somehow in the morning and like I said I'm 11 miles away well I'll keep seeing how far I get so I'm going to Webster first look at the presidential election look here.

I can see my way to Mount Washington, which is right there in the center, the biggest one, that's where I'll be tomorrow. I'm at peak Jackson number two in the presidential election, maybe I'll stop soon. Hey, a night of hiking and the presidential elections are more fun than you think and I had great weather because the sky is clear, it's not too cold, it was a little difficult going down the rocks of Mount Jackson and it's dark so think , I'm already tired of walking the tree line tonight. another mile and a half to a cabin. I could try to get there.

I could stop anywhere along the way. I just met a woman. Come in the other direction. She said it wasn't crazy to do night walks and the presidential ones on a nice night. This she said: I can get all the way to see the cloud site without climbing too much, just a little bit out of Miss Scott's cabin, which wasn't even bad, so I don't know, maybe I'll continue for a while. Incredibly, the winds don't blow that hard and it's not very cold. 10:15 I went to the Mizpah Spring Cabin and it was quiet there, but there were a couple of guys still eating dinner and I told them they were coming from this south direction.

The section hikers confirmed what the woman told me before that I could do this second night to look at the cloud site and also said that they saw Luke, Liz and Yelp at that cabin, so after hiking I don't know 26 miles. So far today I have almost reached it and the summit appears which is the third peak and the presidential ones in the direction I am going is as far as I am going for now until the morning I reach the tree line, so everything is above the tree line between here and the Lake of the Clouds cabin and if I want to stop there will be no place to stop, so it seems like a good idea to stop here.

I'm just going to take a little nap. a couple hours of sleep I'm back on the trail Hello, turn around I guess the Wyss is working for me. It was an idea to be able to look at the clouds Hut and be able to get over Mount Washington and eventually be able to catch up with everyone and it turned out to be worth it and wow, it couldn't have worked out better, it was so much fun. Yesterday I had to travel 30 miles to reach them. Lake of the Clouds Cabin. I took him to our nap. in the middle of the night and then 15 miles today so it will be 45 miles total with just that in May, that little nap probably isn't the best way to get over the whites but it's also fun for me, I don't think I'll do it .

I'm already sick. Trains like this require a difficult balance. I'm choosing the location of the feet. I hope their arches don't move when you step on them, it's not easy today and that was Madison, the last peak in the presidential elections, in the downward direction. that I am going to travel more miles to the Pinkham Notch visitor center. I don't think I've ever been more ready to finish at a walking pace and today I can't wait to go to sleep tonight. The Pinkham Notch visitor center did it. so Yelp, I think the world wants to know why you're doing the 80.

Well, I'm like a quick answer or medium 80. I was hoping that the Camino de Santiago I realized what it does, it changes you for the better and then my Dad mentioned. about the 80s that I couldn't have put on the back burner because I thought it was such a big thing that I wouldn't do it and then I was going to go to India to do yoga and then nothing was burning me, you don't know if it was hitting me and then I opened the book and it said the Appalachian Trail and I felt a fire in my heart and I thought, "Okay, I have to do it." I'm glad you did it.

I certainly have a lot of difficult hikes ahead of me, but I have a new hat that says Baxter State Park, which is where I'm headed and most recently, Timmy, it's time to rest. We've been sitting on this rock for a while and then I realized that there, sharing the rock, is a snake. We are outside. in the wild, fortunately, I found a moment first, the summit, now Mount Moriah, this is point one off the trail, so these are additional miles of trout. I'm going to do this view again with Liz because I screwed up the last time she had the knowledge, so there it is.

Mount Washington and then passing by here the two pointy ones at the end east on this Adams Madison Madison Madison these are all this is the end of the presidency goes north then we came down this ridge here the other day and that's the view from Mt. Moriah well, she's Shieldmaiden, she's southbound and she's got something to say, I am, I've met evil, I'm finally breaking through the whites, now sir, it should be a good rest of the day, we'll have a good time in the white ones, I guess. He passed by some of them on Mount Washington and it was a trip.

I'm glad I got through it, but you'll have fun doing it, so tonight we're at another one of these camps. What's the name of this? There is a Trident Carl camp. and they had these tent ground pads, so shout out, Luke and Liz, and back here in the woods with a weird looking tarp setup that's serious. 1,900 miles, say some words of wisdom, keep walking so we don't succeed. How much time is left today? How many? more miles seven more miles to Dave and then we camp right at the beginning of that sick notch, which sounds like it would be a good thing because we can do it in the morning, but it's supposed to rain tomorrow morning and the clouds are already starting. look like rain that means some Hoosick not the hardest mile on the ATV plus the mezuzah car that's a very steep section in the rain not good welcome to Maine you're welcoming me to Maine who are you the ambassador? my first good view Maine I'm looking at Goose, a mountain that has two peaks.

I climb them before reaching the place where I will sleep tonight. I think I only have four more miles left. I'm going to turn around. I'm not very high where I'm going. Matusik Notch alone I left very early this morning because I wanted to get there. I have to descend to the notch, but once I'm there I'll wait for the rest of the group to catch up to me and us. Let's do that hard section together here, it's the start of my Busiek level and the rains are starting to fall a little harder, it's supposed to increase as we go.

I'm going to wait here for the rest of the team there. probably about half an hour behind me yeah they're Yelp we invented it Medusa Carm yeah we supposedly did one of the hardest climbs in the 80's and it was hard right? Here's Luke, here's Liz, it wasn't a joke. They didn't take us to Bethel Maine and we found Miss Janet, she'll take us. Hello, well here we are early in the morning in Bethel Maine and we are about to be picked up and taken back to Grafton Notch. Yesterday was a day zero. It's a big town here, we'll continue on our way today and have another resupply and Rangeley Maine in four days, so that would be four days of hiking and resupply and then we'll continue from there to Katahdin, climb another mountain and to point three from the summit . of the western bald and then I go down and up again to reach the eastern bald bank, let's go up the eastern bald pate, the pig is fun.

I came from here down and I'm heading up, this is where I can see. On the way up I now have to climb to the top and here is the east peak with the sign flipped over probably because of the weather. It was a good walk. I thought maybe on the way the ticket would be strange. Maybe I have something. Final thoughts start with the equipment I'm using, you know, I called it unique once and someone appropriately pointed out that I'm not unique at all. People have hiked in hiking sandals before Seth or I and probably plenty of other people have done it.

I walked the tarp before Ray Jardine and probably many others, and so on, but you know, what I wanted to do, I guess, was show you that when you look at Facebook and YouTube, it seems like there's only one way to do it. a

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hike, a way to backpack, a way to solo backpack and so on, there's kind of a set list of gear that you're supposed to have and when I started doing long hikes, I started in largely with that established list of although I used to use tarps and I started experimenting and it's a lot more fun, I think if you realize that you're not really limited to the things that you hear most often on Facebook and YouTube throughthis morning, the Mount Washington weather station last said. week that all this haze was caused by the wildfires in California, so Luke will leave us for a week.

If you watch Liz's videos, you know that Luke goes out two weeks out of every month and then comes back and works a little. and then he comes back here freshly prepared for the night. He could throw down a tarp later. This guy looks a little huh, no, no, she's not supposed to rain, but he knows that she defended Luke tonight, of course, Luke has become a very man. Very good friend for this hike and you know, I literally like a video I made about the whites that turned out well, but one of the things that was missing from that video was Luke's reaction when I showed up at Lake the Clouds.

It's hot and what happened was I walked in with my camera and saw Liz and she jumped and then the team that's running the place came out and told us to shut up because we were making too much noise and the paying customers might have felt offended because they could have still been sleeping so we had to be quiet and Luke was in the bathroom so I turned off my camera and Luke came out of the bathroom and I didn't get the reaction. he shot, so Luke was excited too, but I couldn't show him. Hello no one, how are you?

Look at this. I have never seen this. Try magic. It's a mirror. You see how I look. Wow, that doesn't quite fit, but still. I like it and Liz's people make comments that they think it's strange that we should walk together. We've walked. I don't know, most of the journey together we initially had YouTube in common and that's the most important thing if you've ever done it. I tried walking with someone who makes YouTube videos, you have to put up with listening to the same thing over and over while they try to film a section, a statement, or a couple of sentences, myself, honestly, or you'd have to tell the person.

Hey, could you go in front of me? Yo, could you go behind me because I want to film something? So we had in common that we are heading towards the crossroads, it will take us to Rangeley on a resupply in just a five mile day today and we have had Yelp in our group for a month. sort of and we knew him before he was out hiking with other people when Lydia was away. Yelp has been around for a while, so Lydia was introduced to Yelp, but for the last month he has been hiking with us and he is another very positive member of the group.

In the group we are all quite positive, which makes walking together fun. I'm probably the least positive because we all want to break up, but I seem to say it more often than anyone else. I still can't believe he's the main one. but you know, the main one is not the cherry on top of the hike, it's a hike in itself, it's over 280 miles anyway, we're eliminating look where I am at 2,000 miles, that means I only have another 190 miles left to get back I work all day, so the Kennebec River, 17.2 miles, will be tomorrow, that's where you cross by canoe.

We are in Kennebec now the ATC provides a canoe to transport people between nine and two. Okay, thanks Greg and from here. towns to Monson Maine, which is the beginning of the hundred mile wilderness that I call the hundred miles used to be wilderness because they're not really wilderness anymore. Here's the somewhat old-fashioned sign that everyone films that there are no places to get supplies or help. until there's a ball at Burrage 100 miles north, don't attempt this section unless you have a minimum of 10 days supplies etc., they are cutting down roads through a hundred miles of wilderness and after about the year 2000, even more logging roads and those logging roads are controlled. by the paper companies who have the right to them but they have gatekeepers, they are like toll roads so they open and close and if you have to leave after the gatekeepers to sleep you have to pay an extra fee and there are people who actually will resupply in the hundred-mile desert by meeting you at certain road junctions.

You can get out of the desert a hundred miles and stay in a hotel if you hire someone to do that and here is a little marker for 100 miles of sandy beach on Crawford Pond. trail magic in the desert nice purple haze and the Earl Gray Stanley because a car there is cotton naka seems like a big climb just like they say just a couple more miles of hiking today and then 20 warm days and then I'll be at the base of the Mount Katahdin and the next day at the summit, let's take a look at the map.

The entire Appalachian Trail is here. I started there on South Springer Mountain in Georgia and hiked all the way north on the trail and now. I'm almost all the way up there in Maine two thousand one hundred ninety miles something like that and it's been a long road. I'm heading towards the White House landing, which is a traditional Maine sports camp, we're going to resupply there. I will meet. the others here at 1:30 are behind me because I left early to make sure I was on time here's Yelp, it just came up and Luke and Liz here's the sign for our place, landing ship pickup at the White House, Blah blah blah blah.

Blah blah blah complimentary cannabis Meister 21 years because we are in Maine legally, do you think this is very good? Here's our little cabin, no electricity, but who cares, after we had dinner here last night and there were some newlyweds who set up fireworks. show and we took a canoe on the lake and saw Mount Katahdin anyway so we had dinner here last night, we had breakfast here this morning and now we're going to get back on the boat and get back on the trail and today we'll do a 19 mile day, that's big. Day 21 miles which will take us to the base of Mount Katahdin and then we will do my Katahdin tomorrow morning.

There is. I keep getting closer and closer. I'm on Golden Road heading toward the entrance to Baxter State Park using my Baxter State. Park hat that Andrea gave me and that I picked up in pink. I want to do something pretty quick here more for myself than anyone else, which is the curry place. Some recite the names of the hikers. The names of the trails are the people I have. I walked around, there were a lot of people I spent days walking with and eventually they got ahead of me or I got ahead of them or anyone else besides Liz and Luke and Yelp, so I have a list.

I'm just going to read these and now you can, if you're interested in the trail names, maybe you'll get some of that, but smoked Denny Grizz Big Tuna Miss Roberts frolics stretch P a peach I already talked about the peach, one of my videos The Godfather I cross the Kennebec River with Godfather Dad J Papa Smurf boils over booty oh and squeaks Poppins peanuts and Great Dane kaleidoscope Big Tuna number two speedy red striped cheddar TBD who glued his tarp to my tarp and a downpour and in one of the episodes where Lydia was away, my friend asked her whose real name is Zac, who appeared in one of my videos, two crows beat Happy Feet and Bob Marley, okay, star, gingerbread balls, a great guy.

I first saw him in the Smokies and I saw him throughout this trip and he was always around a great group of people and he was always kind of the leader of his gang and his gang changed from time to time with different guys, different girls , they say, they were going at different speeds and metric kool-aid and scrapbook, and those are some of the many people I've walked along with and taken a look at this strange market and I'm here, how do you feel? The contest you stay warm, you're excited, but that time stood out ready, but I think my mouth almost made it past the tree line.

Good weather today around three. Weeks ago we increased our daily average so that we had the option to call today or tomorrow September 11th tomorrow it's going to rain today beautiful from here we went up I think train ride on the bridge I'm getting too close for some Thanks of course everyone those of you who have seen these videos and to all of you who have commented on them, and a special thanks to those of you who have adapted to my video from my hike through Benton MacKaye and my shell fully tracked during the hike thanks to my friends and family who I was supported on the walk by my mom and dad and my brothers and sisters my kids Lydia in Austin and Zooey and Sam especially Andrea and believe it or not, tomorrow they're taking me to Boston looking at Liz, that's where she screams I go - screams back to England and I'm going back to Nashville and I can't wait and finally also thank you to those of you who read the video description and were inspired to contribute to the Appalachian Trail Conservancy or Bruce Matson's RTK. challenge, if you don't know what I'm talking about, read my video descriptions.

I'm done, all I have to do is get down from here and there it goes, yeah, and yeah, there's a little more to the story, okay. the big reveal you must see, miss this video if you want to know more about the hike over and Evans backpacking videos. The YouTube channel ended. I won't make any news videos, but I will respond to comments. to the emails I will keep the videos and thank you all