morvasaaty/AppalachianTrail-LD-Hikers-Blogs-and-Weather-20-years huggingface dataset:
Date: 2014-11-06
From: tray mount shelter

To: blue mount shelter
Miles today: 8.1

Day 135It really isn't worth reiterating what I did today, if you've read the last 2 days you know. And you can guess how I felt too. Classic ¢so glad I just did little miles¢ cept today¢¦¢¦I went into townHitchhiking: I was slightly nervous about hitching before the trail. It's strange and it's something that I've never done before and generally look down. However on the trail its a necessity, yes it's ¢only¢ 12 miles to town but that's a 4 hour 30 min walk, hitching is the way to go. Today I hitched one way for about 10 mins till a Hispanic man and son let me jump in the back of the truck, and on the way back I didn't even have my thumb out and was walking down the road when 1991 thru hiker, Appalachian trail chef picked me up and drove out of his way to drop me off! Hitching isn't bad, (in trail town) and if it's something you are nervous about, don't be, the locals know what is up for the most part and are happy to help.Last McDonald's: I bought 15 bucks in my grand send off and and had the first mcrib of my life, it wasn't great but hey I would eat it again (isn't that McDonald's slogan?)Lastly hiker hunger: to repeat a quote I heard from tittycakes (a half Filipino thru hiker) ¢hiker hunger is a bitch¢. Some may feel that way, but I COMPLETELY 100 percent disagree. Hiker hunger is actually one of the reasons I most wanted to hike the trail.Chickenfat: ¢so your saying I can eat whatever I want? As much of it I want? And not worry about gaining weight?Stupid hiker that doesn't like hiker hunger: "yea doesn't hiker hunger suck¢?It's been fun, and lots of people complain bout not being full, with double dinner, I'm full every night (I skipped today cus of lingering McDonald's) but if your hungry, eat more, it's not that hard. People are crazy. That is all
Date: 2014-11-07
From: blue mount shelter

To: low gap shelter
Miles today: 7.3
Weather: clear sky

Day 136So my trail family got smaller today. It happened, Beyonc© got surpassed by destinys child. As previously mentioned a week ago the kid caught me, however a pit stop in Asheville combined with snow in the smokies put them behind me a couple of days..... Until today. This officially marks the first time since Vermont that he took the June 24th lead.I remember on day 6 getting to the shelter first, before anyone and thinking "cool I have the lead of All the June 24thers". Then later when we exited the hundred miles, the same thought again, I was first out and have the lead. Finally when I left him in Vermont I took it and ran away with it, until today. Funny enough when we exited the hundred mile wilderness I thought that was always going to be the order we finished in. Me first, the kid, sardine and Redbeard, and the cousins last. It was almost right, and I think that order holds true to hiking speed and determination. I believe I would have finished before him, but I chose otherwise. I chose to sit and stay at shelters, and he chose to partner up with a group pushing big miles. Somehow I turned the trail into something competitive and I think that's just my nature. I wish him the best of luck and really don't have any hard feelings towards him despite the heaviness which I approached us splitting up. If we were a trail family, he was my trail brother, and honestly, who gets along with their brother, trail or biological?Now I sit, and wait. I knew the kid, arbor, wolfburger, twinkle and scuttlebutt we're going to pass, that was no news. We have 8 more days of sitting 7 more nights and only 43 miles left. I don't know who else is coming but hopefully they like me and sign the discLastly for the blog, I won't end it on the 15th. My 23rd birthday is December 3, I will continue writing posts (although not daily) until then because I believe that is a sufficient enough amount of time to cover the "post trail, reintegration" part of the Appalachian trail that I find fascinating, and believe it would be a disservice to not provided on the fatnesses blog. That is all, goodnight sweet prince
Date: 2014-11-08
From: low gap shelter

To: whitley gap shelter
Miles today: 4.8
Weather: clear sky

Day 137Always stay with day hikers, I could say that a million times and still never say it enough. So why you ask, today I received 3 chocolate chip pancakes, 2 Oreo desserts, brandy (not a fan), good conversation. And why was I alone with day hikers, because of Whitley gap shelter.Whitley gap shelter is the reason j decided to do the Georgia shelter challenge. I thought of all shelter, this one is the reason why most people won't do the Georgia shelter challenge. The Whitley gap shelter is 1.2 off trail, with a water source and alleged .3 further. Now usually I wouldn't go .1 for a view, .2 is the max I will usually go for water, and until now .5 was the furthest I've gone for shelter and that was for the famous upper goose pond shelter, where they make you pancakes and you sleep in a bunk for free. This shelter has no free pancakes (or so I thought) but it does have the logistical distance that makes it probably the most challenging day of the Georgia shelter challenge.Tomorrow I got a few miles to the famous neels gap where many nobos fall off, maybe I'll drop too, 30 miles seems like a big distance.Lastly in a week I'll be done, that's a crazy thought. Most people would be done sooner from 40 miles out, but I'm not most people and this is the last leg of the chickenfat hike and it moves as slow/fast as it wants. But right now it's slowooooowwwwowowow
Date: 2014-11-09
From: whitley gap shelter

To: blood mountain shelter
Miles today: 9.1
Weather: scattered clouds

Day 138Highest in Georgia ohh yea. Maybe I haven't said this, maybe I forgot to mention this yesterday, but on weekends stay in shelters. Currently in getting the old throwbacks to the Boy Scout days and in a shelter with about 10 scouts. It's nice, and funny and I can just remember 5 years ago when I was a scout and how it was the exact same every night of camping. Anyways I got 2 mountain houses from scouts today, but they were both half eaten, but as previously mentioned, mountain houses are the best food.Also in a related note, someone said if I caught then in the smokes they would give me a mountain house, I'm sad I didn't ever find you because I was looking forward to that.Also today I realized I saw myself on the second day of the trail. And by that I saw the hiker most similar to me. On that second day. I was done, it was three and if you remember I was feeling lonely and shirty, then I asked a hiker where the store was to reserve a campsite. This nobo was sitting down on a bench a half mile outside of Baxter only 15 miles from the northern terminus and just reading. Taking his time, of all the hikers I met in the first 100 miles he was the only one in retrospect who was not in a hurry to finish. I think that's true to how I am ending. Today at neels gap the store owner, came out and talked to me and I think he was dumbfounded that I was only hiking 2.5 more that day to blood mountain shelter despite the fact I got to the store at 100. I sat and read 100 pages of choke and jut chilled. It's nice not moving, the and the adventures of chillinfat.Lastly chillinfat will post his +- when I finish on springer on Saturday. AM EDIT: that was a very funny night, Boy Scouts are funny if you don't let them bother you. A kid pooped his pants. Good times
Date: 2014-11-10
From: blood mountain shelter

To: woods hole shelter
Miles today: 1.2
Weather: clear sky

Day 139When I said Georgia shelter challenge some nay-Sayers acted like it wasn't crazy, they said "that's called going nobo" a couple of people said it as a joke, others believed it. This is why the Georgia shelter challenge is hard, I literally moved 1.2 miles today. In total amount hiked (cus of trips to water and the shelter) 2.4. For the rest of the day I sat, kept my fire burning and read choke by chuck palenick. I finished choke, because I had a lot of down time. And incase you are wondering when I finished hiking 9:20 am is the answer. I'm sad no one was slow getting out of this shelter in the morning because I think that would have been the absolute funniest thing to do, show up at 930 before they leave and start setting up your stuff to sleep. (A fat can dream, a fat can dream)Tomorrow is 13 miles, my last double digit day of the trail, plus maybe 4 miles of road walking to the post office. It's gonna be a "long day" but I'll try to grit my teeth and make it through it.I keep getting passed by people and as previously mentioned it's not really something I mind anymore, because in my competitive mind I reasoned I "let" then catch me. It's crazy though that the people I'm seeing are only 1 or 2 days from finishing and basically everyone I have camped with since I started Georgia is already done. I'm gonna go back to reading invisible monsters, but as a treat here's a few quotes that are funny including an exchange I had todayMe and 2 day hikers, WEARING DAYPACKsM.R: what mountain is blood?Fat: that oneM.R: is it hard?Fat: uh it's pretty gradual, it was harder going up the other sideM.R: oh well you got a few hard climbs too, sassafras was step, least your going down thatFatness: (in his mind) I hate day hikers, I didn't ask about the "toughness" of mounts, nor is sassafras hardKnives: hike or dieUnplugged: I choose dieHobo in shelter: yea if I made it to Georgia I wouldn't be able to finish anywaysFat: why?Hobo: between you and me, assault and battery"Cheese flavored butthole, now that would be good"- someone in the kids crew
Date: 2014-11-11
From: woods hole shelter

To: gooch mountain shelter
Miles today: 12.3
Weather: broken clouds

Day 140So I did something new, I've never done before today. I lost my sleeping bag. I dropped my bag when I was putting other stuff in the hammock and when I dropped it, it rolled, with its circular shape and went down hill. The last thing that I heard was it not collecting moss as it rolled downward. It took me 10 mins of walking down and up and down a steep hill in darkness of night to find it. Blah blah blah that was quite terrible. Note to self, on steep hills, don't drop your bag before you put it in your sleeping bag.In a crazier note, I went to my last trail town today. No mas hitches, no mas trail towns, no mas crap. I got a couple of days left but it's not a big deal. The fatness is happy, he is glad he will be done. He is glad he won't make any more miles, and he is glad he finished his last multiple mile day. Ahhhhh so close, so happy.One last thought I have is can I think about the butterfly effect hike that may have been?Arbor said that the cloud pond day he planned on catching us until it rained and he settled. I remember that rain, that was our first rain day and it forced Redbeard and sardine into the shelter after deciding to tent. We are just speculating right now, but he catches up and joins the crew here's what I have1. The New Yorkers drop2. Me and the kid and arbor pull away from Redbeard and mike3. Me and the kid don't get at each others throats with arbor as a mediator4. Arbor me and the kid make a threesome of happy hikers that walk, and make it all the way to Georgia.That's the butterfly effect scenario that I have planned out. I think that occasionally we might have split up when I went to my bros in va or chilled in Damascus but that's what I have planned out. Anyways that's my thought on the hike that could have been.
Date: 2014-11-12
From: gooch mountain shelter

To: hawk mountain shelter
Miles today: 7.7
Weather: overcast clouds

Day 141 This is A 205 entry, I'll do the usual before I sleep but I was just thinking about how many stupid hiking opinions I have. It didn't really dawn on me until yesterday when I was helping out a section hiker plan his hike. He had questions, I had answers and more importantly, stupid hiking opinions. AnywaysAlways have your important gear accessibleBreak near waterHave a scheduleDon't fall behind scheduleWake earlier instead of hiking fasterDo everything in as few trips as possibleCharge all your electronics whenever you canDon't sit down when going up a mountainIn the hundred mile wilderness for sobos, buy dehydrated meals, they will be worth their price because there is no way to have 8 light good mealsIf you do need to sit down, resign yourself to sit down once you get to the farthest place in sightDon't take long breaks Always know the time Camp in shelters on weekendsHit up national parks on weekendsPack out all trashDon't push yourself too hard in the startThere's more, but I should hike cus in feeling reeeeeeeel lazy right now One *retraction, I ended up talking to fedora the explorer later the same week after the initial confrontation. He was really nice, and was probably having a bad day. However he was a dick the first day we met and I think that this just proves sometimes people have shitty first impressions. Anyways I won't say their real name but I want it to be stated I did indeed like them, despite the cyber bashing I did in that one post.3.2.1 That's my thought on my final days of Appalachian trails. Today was the three, which refers to the 7.8 day I did today or 3 hours of waking time. Tomorrow is 5.4 (2 hours) and the second to last day is 2.7 (1 hour) anyways I'm real excited to be done but I am soaking in the end.I think the biggest difference I could say between where I was 2 weeks ago and where I am now is summed up in what a nobo section hiker named Virginia slim told me about coffee. We were talking and he was astounded by the fact that it took me an hour and 39 to get ready in the morn. I told him its cus I pack then I make hot breakfast and coffee every morn. Then He said coffee is meant to be enjoyed. 2 weeks ago, I didn't exactly enjoy my coffee, during most of Virginia didn't enjoy it. I drank it. Now I'm in a state where I can enjoy my coffee. Today I drank and sat and sipped for an hour and time passed, day hikers packed and fats fatted. It's the little things, and for me one of them is drinking that black gold, cept I use sugar so it's kinda tan gold.
Date: 2014-11-14
From: stover creek shelter

To: springer mountain shleter
Miles today: 2.6

Day 143It's cold, but that's how it should be. The appalachian trail wasn't always perfect, why should there be good weather on my last day. If there were degrees of cold I'm somewhere between mr freeze "Ice to meet you" cold and that chick in frozen who has no snow control. It all comes full circle today I shared camp with two dirty city slickers. Not that I don't like dirty no good city slickers, it's just that's what they were. They probably have the least camping exp of all the people I've camped with but they reminded me of me at the start. Asking seemingly obvious questions I.e. What do you do with trash? But it's good to have moved from the apprentice to master.The sis, bro in law, nephew, niece, and girly arrived today at 12am and now it's time to sleep so that in 10 short hours I can be done with this trail and start a new chapter in my life. And just like the mounts of MAINE or the drought in New York, it does not matter if I'm ready for it or not because it's coming
Date: 2014-11-15
From: springer mountain shleter

To: springer mountain
Miles today: 0.2
Weather: clear sky

JDay 144That's it, that's the last day, that's how long it took me to hike the appalachian trail. It's crazy to believe that I am done with the trail and now I can start the next chapter.I'll write more later, I'm really not in the mood now but my thoughts. The approach trail sucked. It was like a 8 mile link between amicola falls and springer with no purpose. Blah that was lame, more tomorrow during the long carried so yeaBut if you want to see my celebration.... Here you go http://youtu.be/HMEPN8W4L4Yhttp://youtu.be/dszI7DOwgck
Date: 2014-11-16
To: post trail day 1
Miles today: 0.0

Post trail day 1Yup this feeling is surreal. Being done is crazy. I'm thinking it won't come over like a giant wave of realization, I have a feeling it will came in little flashes.Today I've been hit by a couple of flashes1:realization that Not walking isn't a "zero"2: the fact that I now have to do everything I put off3: the fact that I'm in Raleigh for the first time in 5 months4: I have my iPadMore things will happen in the next few weeks but just like the first time it was cold out on the trail, I had to adjust to the new normal. Town life, real life, that's the new normal, I think the first time I meet someone new and introduce myself as chris is going to be insane for me. So maybe chickenfat died in amicola state park yesterday, I'll live in his memory.
Date: 2014-11-18
To: post trail day 3
Miles today: 0.0
Weather: scattered clouds

Post trail day 3What the trail did physically:Physically the trail made my legs ridiculously stronger. Like they literally feel like rocks. Clearly every muscle is larger and you really can feel it even in my arms.I ended up losing about 25 ish pounds. That's crazy, but I didn't really notice it until I saw a before and after picture my sister posted. That really made me notice that the 25 pounds really did come off everywhere. One of the reasons I wanted to hike the trail was to lose weight, so mission accomplished but holy crap. One interesting this is the first ten ish pounds came off in the first month, by the time I got to rangely, it took the rest of the trail for the rest of that weight to come off. Then again post rangely is when I started doing the extra sharp cheddar in each meal......I also got a baller ass beard, but yull already noticed that and my hair is officially the longest it has been in my entire life. The last time I cut it was last June when I shaved my head with a razor.....How I'm approaching post trail life thus far:Goals, goals, goals, like I said one of the biggest differences for when I get home was going to be the lack of accomplishment at the end of each day. In the woods seldom was there a day when I could say damn I did nothing. Out here now I am trying to incorporate that into my life. Day 2 was make sure teaching licensure was correct. Day 3 was get back on track musically (I'm extremely back). And tomorrow I shall try to fix my bike so that I have wheels in town. Because although the 7.5 mile run today was healthy, running everyday is blah. Goals and accomplishing them is the name of the game
Date: 2014-11-21
To: post trail day 5 food thoughts
Miles today: 0.0

Post trail day 5FoodGetting tired of food is something I didn't expect. I have always said if i like a food I like a food regardless of how much I've had it. People that know me know exactly what I order every time I go to chilis (chicken crispers, loaded mashed potatoes and fries). I never expected to get tired of a food, but I did.I can say however I only got tired of two food1.tomatoes.....do I really need to explain that? Is that something that is necessary?2. Steak strips. Really thick awesome beef jerky that I was ecstatic about before I started the trail. However after about 4 bags I was done with them. One reason because each bag weighed a pound and secondly because I couldn't not find a good thing to combine them with.For dinners no I didn't get used of my food. Why? Because like a day hiker said when he saw me making a meal in Georgia "every time I look over there he's adding something else in side that thing" Ever dinner wasMeat (spam, chicken, corned beef, summer sausage, pepperoni)Substance (pasta side, rice side, mashed potatoes, stuffing)Cheese ( extra sharp Cabot)Olive oilHot sauceIt was delicious and to be honest right now I could eat that and consider it a great meal. Just saying you want a basis of how to eat there youThen how can we forget about double dinner?Which just meant I always are a pack of ramen second because it would clean the pot, and I love ramenBreakfast:Originally I thought I would eat granola and peanut butter every day. That changed, I got to rangely doing that and decided that I needed a real breakfast. Every morning I would eat 2 packets of fruit and cream oatmeal and a cup of coffee. It was great and the way to go. The coffee I drank was called kopeka brown coffee. It already had cream and brown sugar in it. If you drink your coffee with cream and sugar I would highly recommend it, I loved it and it was my favorite part of every morning.Lunch:The plan was not to have a "lunch" and just snack all day long, that was especially important during the big days. What I ate was just a random assortment of granola bars, cliff bars, dried fruits, and candy. I never really liked trail mix, but I ate that too sometimes. Lastly NUTBUTTFLUFF peanut butter, marshmallow fluff and Nutella all mixed together in a jar and a loaf of bread were the last staple. I loved it, and would recommend it to any aspiring thru hiker cus it's delicious. Some use fajitas instead of bread, I liked the bread much more however
Date: 2014-11-23
To: post trail day 8 bein a bum
Miles today: 0.0
Weather: overcast clouds

Post Trail Day 8went back to wilmington my college town and just now i realize how much hhas gone on in these past six months. First and foremost, i have most definatley graduated from college. It was nice being back and seeing old friends but also terrible weird because something was different from the last time i had visisted. There were so many strange faces and the town as a whole felt different because wilmington no longer represents the town that I live in, its just a town i visit, Uncw isnt the school i atttend its just aschool i visit.all of it just felt a bit off and it was difficult for me to fully enjoy being back.Just feelin like a bum right now. There was this feeling at the start of the summer where you don't have anything to do and just bum. That's me now except I realize if I don't move I'll actually be a bum forever. The resume is fixed and now I'm waiting to see if my sis changes it. Took a 6 mile jog, legs were a little tired but my body went without needing a break the whole time. So bamLastly I'm watching twin peaks because I said I would way back in Vermont, binge watching a show is about the least trail thing one can do
Date: 2014-12-02
To: post trail day 16
Miles today: 0.0
Weather: clear sky

My birthday is tomorrow, here's a picture of Redbeard and mike finishing, Redbeard on the left mike on the right. That brings the success rate of June 24 to 4/8 or 50 percent. I previously thought Redbeard finished a week ago but it was just mike, Redbeard fell behind because of a foot injury
Date: 2015-01-12
To: BADGER SPONSORSHIP
Miles today: 0.0
Weather: clear sky

I am currently in the running for "the badger sponsorship". I have decided to thru-hike the PCT this year and in order to win it I need to receive as many votes as I can within this week. please vote for me and I will promise to deliver the same terrible writing I brough on my sobo thru hike.http://appalachiantrials.com/chris-chickenfat-leblanc-wants-badger-sponsorship-powered-larabar/