Archive for the 'Fitness' Category
April 10, 2008
Spring. Today. The first morning I was able to walk out to get my Bangor Daily News paper by the road on ground that was not frozen solid. Unbelievable! It is 7 pm now and I am still able to look outside and see the last traces of snow [...]
Categories: Appalachian Trail, Camping, Fitness, hiking
Tags: AT, hiking, Maine, snow shoes
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March 30, 2008
We got whacked again on Friday with another snow storm that canceled all local schools and meetings for the eighth time this winter. The good news is that the bare ground is now warmed up to the point that the snow that lands there is usually gone in a few days.
Today I finally [...]
Categories: Appalachian Trail, Backpacking, Fitness, Maine, Outdoors, Snowshoeing, hiking
Tags: hiking, AT, Maine, winter, snow shoes
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March 27, 2008
Today was my birthday, March 27, and also the first anniversary of my first day of the start of my five and a half month Appalachian Trail thru-hike last year.
This year, my wife and her twin sister are about three weeks in to the launch of their own AT thru-hike, a valiant effort for [...]
Categories: Appalachian Trail, Fitness, Maine, Outdoors, Snowshoeing, hiking
Tags: Maine, Snowshoeing, winter
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March 26, 2008
It is getting close to 3/27 , the first anniversary of starting my Appalachian Trail thru-hike .
A couple of days ago, I was back on the Uncle Tom trail, a local path through the forest right here in Maine . I took my snow shoes with me, [...]
Categories: Appalachian Trail, Fitness, Maine, Outdoors, Snowshoeing, hiking
Tags: hiking, Outdoors, Maine, snow shoes
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March 16, 2008
Been a busy week for me, with trying to run the house alone, update my wife’s valiant progress on her Appalachian Trail thru-hike attempt on Trailjournals, shovel some more snow, and try and work a bit to make some money to pay these bills.
Still pretty worked up [...]
Categories: Appalachian Trail, Fitness, hiking
Tags: AT, Fitness, Maine, Outdoors
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