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 100 - Finerty Pond to Crystal Mountain Campsite

Day: 100

Date: Wednesday, 02 August 2023

Start:  Finerty Pond (AT Mile 1561.2)

Finish:  Crystal Mountain Campsite (AT Mile 1582.0)

Daily Kilometres:  33.5 (Ascent 2940', Descent 2910')

GPX Track:  Click here for Julie’s Strava & Photos

Total Kilometres:  2608.2

Weather:  Mild and sunny.

Accommodation:  Tent 

Nutrition:

  Breakfast:  Hot dogs

  Lunch:  Pop tarts/Trail mix 

  Dinner:  Chicken cheesesteak sub/chicken & bacon sub, ice-cream 

Aches:  Dave - left knee sore; Julie - nothing reported.

Highlight:  When we reached the road crossing where we planned to have breakfast, six miles into our day's hiking, we found two former AT hikers (brothers who completed the trail over three years) just setting up to provide breakfast to any passing thru-hikers.  We had cold Cokes to drink, some donuts and a couple of hot dogs each while chatting to the interesting guys and another young thru-hiking couple who turned up.

Lowlight:  None really.

Pictures: Click here

Map and Position: Click here for Google Map

Journal:

Another fairly unremarkable day's hiking apart, perhaps, from the culinary side.  We were lucky enough to get breakfast provided by some "trail angels" (see above) and then we passed through the pretty and well-kept village of Dalton late in the afternoon and bought a hot meal for dinner at a sub shop, followed by an ice-cream as we walked out of town.

Otherwise, the day was very similar to yesterday, with pleasant conifer forest, generally good hiking, though punctuated with lots of short ups and downs and plenty of boggy sections.  Although in the forest for most of the time we did cross several roads and pass near houses occasionally.  Views were scarce, with only Warner Hill (2048') offering a vista to the north including Mt Greylock, Massachusetts' highest peak, which we will climb tomorrow.

After our early dinner in Dalton, we hiked for another couple of hours until 7:00pm when we stopped at a nice designated hikers' campsite for the night.  Also camped there were the French-Canadian couple we have got to know over the past few weeks and Julie socialised with them while Dave wrote the blog.

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