Julie and I are hiking the Appalachian Trail in the US from Springer Mt, Georgia, to Mt Katahdin, Maine, in the north, a distance of almost 2,200 miles (3,540 km). Our journey will start in early May 2023 and is expected to take about five months. We will be mostly camping, carrying 3-5 days of supplies to get us between resupply points, where we will be staying in hostels/hotels/motels where we can. I hiked the entire Appalachian Trail back in 1986 so it will be interesting to see how much has changed and how much it has stayed the same.

Appalachian Trail - Day 068 - Day off in Greencastle

Day: 068

Date: Saturday, 01 July 2023

Start:  PA Route 16 (AT Mile 1069.9) but staying at Greencastle.

Finish:  PA Route 16 (AT Mile 1069.9) but staying at Greencastle.

Daily Kilometres:  0

GPX Track:  Click here for Julie’s Strava & Photos from her jog/walk around Greencastle today.

Total Kilometres:  1802.5

Weather:  Overcast and very warm and humid.

Accommodation:  Motel

Nutrition:

  Breakfast:  Macca's big breakfast

  Lunch:  Mexicali subs

  Dinner:  Patty melt & fries/Chicken burger & fries, donuts

Aches:  Nothing to report 

Highlight:  Rob, a work colleague of Dave's from 20+ years ago, who is also a keen hiker, arrived at our motel today after driving down from Connecticut and will join us for a few days of hiking along the AT.  It was good to see him again and start catching up our respective news.

Lowlight:  We were surprised and saddened to get an email from our thru-hiking friend of the last five or six weeks, Tassie (from Tasmania), who is a day or two behind us on the trail, telling us that she is ending her hike for this year.  She seemed to be cruising and enjoying the experience, so it was a shock to hear she had quit, though we knew she had been hiking with an injury.  Thru-hiking is very tough, mentally and physically, and Dave has also felt close to the edge on a number of occasions.  It sometimes seems like a never-ending endurance race rather than an adventure.  We try to keep in mind the saying that "You never quit on your bad days"

Pictures: Click here

Map and Position: Click here for Google Map

Journal:

Apart from the arrival of Rob (see above), we had a fairly typical rest day.  A good breakfast was followed by Dave doing some admin with the TV on in the background, while Julie went for a sightseeing jog/walk.

Rob arrived just before lunch and we drove to a nearby Walmart where we had some lunch and did our resupply shopping.

We returned to our motel and had a quiet afternoon before meeting Rob again for an early dinner at an adjacent truck-stop restaurant and finalizing our plans for tomorrow.

An early night is planned.

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