[at-l] I've got SOBO on my mind...

[hikerdelita@xxxxxxxxx (Delita Wright)]

Thanks for the link and the info.  My Dad's birthday
was the 14th. :-)  Why won't the springs drying up be
a big deal?  I think '04 is an El Nino year.  Does
that mean I'll need snowshoes in the Smokies?  :-D

Delita
--- rick boudrie <rickboudrie@hotmail.com> wrote:
> Going SOBO has a lot going for it.  If I waited a
> day, I would have set out
> on my birthday as well.  I started out on July 13th.
> I may have been the
> last southbounder my year.
>
> To get some idea of the date distribution of SOBO's,
> you can click on this
> link which lists the month other SOBOs crossed the
> Kennebec River in 2002.
> Unfortunately, it doesn't go into more date detail
> than just the month.  You
> will note only a very small percentage of SOBO's
> crossed in August.  Since
> the table also shows NOBO crossings, it will also
> give you some idea of the
> NOBO wave that you can expect to walk against ;-).
>
>
http://www.riversandtrails.com/Hiker_Data/hiker_data.html
>
> The river crossing is about 2 weeks south of
> Kahtahdin.  There will be
> plenty of hikers on the Trail when you start, just
> not so many fellow
> sobo's.  Weary is tight about some of the springs
> drying up by the time you
> will get to them, but that is something that won't
> prove to be a big deal.
> The big downside for me to starting when I did was
> that I was afraid of
> hitting snow in the Smokies, so I rushed things a
> bit.  Seems like you got
> that covered though!
>
> Rick B
>
>
>
>
>
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