What happened to beautiful Vermont?

That is a darn good question!

Unfortunately, I have no idea what happened to our Vermont photos.

What I DO remember was that this was a difficult time in our hike. I remember my body hurting; feeling like I was finally experienced the “green tunnel” of the AT; and my mind wandering and wondering what I was doing out on the Trail.

Luckily, a very close friend from high school in Connecticut, Evan, came out to join us for a week and lifted my spirits!

Thank ya’ll so much for joining the hike again! For anyone just seeing this blog, you can read my introduction to our 2005 thru-hike blog series here.

And for anyone wondering what I’ve been doing in 2016 (and what my hiking plans are for the future), you can check out this blog post that I recently published.

We ended up staying one of our nights at Upper Goose Pond Cabin (in MA), which had a lake and canoe. In 2005, there was a tradition of hikers making pancakes with blueberries from the trail, leaving a donation so the summer cabin caretaker could buy more bisquick for next week’s hikers.

During this time, our hiking “schedule” seemed to be coinciding with a pair of other “sobo” hikers on the Trail: Charlie Tuna and Sock. They were friends that had started the Trail together.

Being back in Connecticut was VERY special for me.

In high school, I was about 45 minutes away from the Kent section of the trail. This was the section that I knew by heart. That I’d hiked again and again.

This is the section of Trail that got me hiking for the first time.

This is the section of Trail I hiked when I dreamed of hiking the entire Appalachian Trail .

And now I was here again. And sharing it with Amber!

Here we are again. We’ve finished another chunk of Trail and are ready for more!

Thanks, ya’ll, so much for joining Amber and I. Please join us hiking again on September 18, 2016 (9/18/16) for another roll of film!

See ya’ll soon!