Appalachian Trail

We’re thrilled to start our adventure in the Great Smoky Mountains! Hikers need a $40 thru-hiker permit to explore the park. They have 8 days to cover a whopping 76 miles. The first few days were a total washout; everything was soaked, and our packs weighed us down. But guess what? On our third day, […]

We got to stay at the Fontana Dam Shelter aka “The Hilton”! It is a free shelter close to town, that has showers, toilets, solar charging station for phones and an amazing view of the dam. It was such perfect weather when we were there, sunny and in the 80’s, that we decided to take

In the forest trees will fall, they don’t care where the trail is and will sometimes fall on it. When they do it is hard to continue on the trail without walking around it and making a new path. Which over time kills more of the vegetation in the woods, so hiker’s are not supposed

One day we were hiking through the woods, just like any other day. There were a lot of fallen trees we had to climb over, and as we did it started getting cold and we wanted to make it to a shelter instead of using our tent. The shelter we made it to had a

The climb up to the 100 miles on Albert Mountain was very hard. It was mostly stairs, every time you turned a corner there were more stairs. When we finally got to the top the view was so worth it. There is a fire tower on top that you can climb up to get an

After weeks of hiking and making some mistakes and some great memories we have hiked into North Carolina. It is an amazing feeling to have walked from one state into the next and will only feel more and more exciting as we continue crossing state lines. We had a lunch break on the state boarder

The adventure continues as we keep making the miles. After a while the forest can start looking the same and you can find yourself starting to get depressed. When it seems like you‘re getting no where even though all you are doing is walking, that’s when you need to start finding the beauty in the

After leaving Neel’s Gap we headed back into the woods to make more miles. With clean laundry, showers and stomachs full of pizza we were ready to crush it. We have been hiking an average of 7 miles a day, its been slow at the beginning as we were are trying to get our trail

We summited Blood Mountain on March 6th. It was a very hard climb up. But so worth it. The day we went was right after a big ice storm. So everything was covered in a layer of ice and was so beautiful. We spent a lot of time on top of the mountain, enjoying the

First we started at Amicalola SP! It took us 3 slow days with the dogs to make up the 8.8 miles approach trail to the start of the Appalachian Trail at Springer Mountain!! After doing the approach trail, we realized the dogs weren’t cut out to do such a long adventure at the speed we