[at-l] OT -- "Survivor" / AT hiker's Bio

[foshione@dteenergy.com (Elizabeth A. Foshion)]

To really find out, talk a thruhiker into wearing one of those little pedometers 24/7 - do midnight shrub stops count too?

Squirrelgirl

> Depends, doesn't it?
>
> If you started your NOBO hike at the campground
> at Amicalola Falls state park, give yourself an
> eight mile bonus.
>
> But if you started at the visitors center, give yourself a
> nine and a half mile bonus (and a tough little climb, to boot.)
>
> For thru hikers that finish at the summit of K, do you
> get any extra credit for the walk back down? <g>
>
> I remember some shelters being far off the main trail.
> Was it Peck's Corner??  Around 0.75 miles off the AT,
> as I recall from distant memory.  Some shelters in the
> Whites take you WAY down off the ridge... eg. Guyot,
> the Perch.
>
> And I remember long walks into and through towns,
> eg. to the hostel in Pearisburg, the hostel in Erwin, etc.
> Or a long roadwalk in VA, part of the trek back to
> Damscus for Trail Daze.
>
>
> rafe b
> aka terrapin