morvasaaty/AppalachianTrail-LD-Hikers-Blogs-and-Weather-20-years huggingface dataset:
Date: 2005-06-20
From: dicks dome shelter

To: bears den hostel
Miles today: 18.9
Weather: light rain

day 37 on the trail. woke up at 6 to my watch alarm and got out of camp by 7. listenend to my mp3 player almost all day.   free and cournal mustard were close behind me. walked through the sky meadows state park. wasnt any views or anthing real nice that I saw. got to a big 4 lane road crossing with no bridge so we had to dodge cars. truth and ironhorse were there which I hadnt seen them for like 3 weeks. guy was there giving out gatorade so I drank that then headed up the trail got to rod hollow shelter and took a 30 min break for kinda brunch. the next like 12 miles or so is what they call the rollarcoaster up and down medium size hills 11 times. sucks as soon as you get up then you know you have to go down then back up again. caught up with serenity at sam moore shelter then headed towards bears den hostal. got to bears den by 3 and didnt wanna stay but I couldnt pass up a home cooked meal , breakfast and a shower for $8. It is a old house built in 1933 and looks like a castle. bout 15 people here . dorothy, red hat, cuppa joe, poet, feeling free, scholar, serenity and some other people. had enchiladas for supper and then went and saw the sunset, then read a little bit and went to bed
Date: 2005-06-21
From: bears den hostel

To: Harpers Ferry KOA
Miles today: 19.9
Weather: clear sky

I woke up at 6:15 packed up my stuff and went inside about 7. the lady who ran the place was making pancakes for us this morning. ate 4 huge pancakes and 3 cups of coffee. today was naked hiking day, thankfully I did not see anyone naked all day. Passed some day hikers, before the david lesser memorial shelter. got there and walked .25 down a very steep hill to get water which really sucked. went back up the hill to the shelter and saw a almost 5 ft black rat snake. Dorothy and red hat came in then crazy legs too. All the horth bounders hit the 1000 mile mark right here.   had 9 more miles to get to harpers ferry Hiked with crazy legs most of the way, did 9 miles in under 3 hrs. got to the ATC(Appalachian Trail Conservancy) and got my picture taken and put my name and stuff on it, I was the 19th flip-flopper that has come thru and signed in. Crazy legs was #378th northbound thruhiker. My guess is that there will be about 550 northbound hikers that come thru harpers ferry. then probably about 200 southbounders. Phoenix came and picked us up and we went to the KOA campground 6 of us there last night. Phoenix, Crazylegs, Low Bridge, Professor, Hotcrotch, and me. We grilled Hamburgers and steak kobobs, then had cinnamon cake for desert, It was really good.
Date: 2005-06-22
From: Harpers Ferry KOA

To: Harpers Ferry KOA
Miles today: 0.0
Weather: mist

Blah I know I just took a day off like 3 days ago but gonna go like 6 days straight after we leave Harpers Ferry. Subway for lunch, resupplied at the grocery, went to the post office, then did laundry. Beans and left over kobobs for supper then smores for desert. Went swimming in the sheanandoah river today it is a very wide river, then back to the koa to swim in the pool there.
Date: 2005-06-23
From: Harpers Ferry KOA

To: Dahlgren Backpack campground
Miles today: 17.9
Weather: clear sky

got up had coffee cake for breakfast, broke down camp and headed out at 9. got to the ATC and bought a couple things. went down to the outfitters with phoenix and bought some more bug spray and a cup which I already broke(as of 6-30) walked back to phoenix's car got my pack and headed out. Passed the jefferson rock and walked right thru downtown harpers ferry. Crossed the Potomac river on the Goodloe Byron Memorial bridge and walked on the c+o towpath for about 2 miles. Crossed under a big highway going across the riber. Kinda neat there is a railroad, old towpath(canal) and the huge sheanandoah river right beside each other and the trail is right in the middle. crossed a road and caught up with crazylegs and professor eating lunch, so I ate with them. Passed the Ed Garvey shelter, got to gathland state park and there was running water and a pop machine, then phoenix showed up doing trail magic and we went and talked with her. got to Dahlgren backpack campground around 7 , set up my hammock and there was about 15 people there, some thruhikers and some section hikers, phoenix was there cause its only like .2 miles from the road. This guy named Dale was here hiking from South Africa. He bought a $2500 plane ticket called a around the world ticket, he gets to pick like 13 places around the world to visit. Capt Pattagonia was there and his sister and her boyfriend was there and they went and got some drinks from the store so we just sat around and talked all night. The Ridgerunner was there that night, a ridgerunner is a person who hikes the same section of the trail north and south and gets paid for it, they are employees of the ATC. The pay may not be very good I do not know but still, who wouldnt wanna get paid to hike?
Date: 2005-06-24
From: Dahlgren Backpack campground

To: Devils Racecourse shelter
Miles today: 18.7

packed up and left by 9, hiked alone listening to my mp3 player, we came to the Whashington Monument State Park, and hiked up the main path to where the first ever monument was for President Whashington. The monument was dedicated one july 4th 1827. Kept hiking and came upon the I-70 crossing, I sat right on the bride, it was a pedestrian bridge and had lunch and listened to people honk as they went by and I even acted like a little kid and tried to get semis to honk at me. Was kinda funny being on that bridge cause I knew that I could jump ontop of a semi and right it all the way home to ohio but there was a fence on top and all around so I guess I really couldnt but you know what I mean. Got to Pine Knob shelter and filled up water then headed on to the next shelter, got to Devils Racecourse shelter and had to walk .4 downhill to get water. got back up to the top and had supper with Crazylegs, We was both really tired and wanted to get a good nights sleep and just then 15 boy scouts came running in about 8:00 so we waited on Professor to get there and we packed up and moved .2 further on up the trail, nothing against boy scouts but I was just really tired and wanted to get a good nights sleep. Later on I heard that those boy scouts were really well behaved, nothing like some of the other scouts I have met out here.
Date: 2005-06-25
From: Devils Racecourse shelter

To: Tumbling Run rivers shelter
Miles today: 13.2

started hiking about 9:30 and got to this place called high rock, its this nice view where its really open and its a place where handgliders can take off. It was a really nice place. Got to the Pen-Mar Park which stands for Pennsylvania- Maryland Park. ate lunch there and I think it was Saturday so there was a lot of people out picknicking, we was hoping to get some free food but it didnt happen. left there and crossed over into pennsylvania and was out of the south for now untill I have to go back down to finish my hike. Crazylegs, Professor, and me came upon this road and hicthed into blue ridge summit and went to the diner and got supper then hitched back out to the trail. got to Tumbling run shelter and went to sleep.
Date: 2005-06-26
From: Tumbling Run rivers shelter

To: Birch Run Shelter
Miles today: 19.6
Weather: few clouds

left the shelter about8:30 and got to the caledonia state park which was about 10 miles away at 12:30 and was going to order pizza from a local place but they didnt deliver anymore so I just ate my Mac+Cheese. The park also had a pool just like TIKI back home, there was tons of people out for the day having picknicks and such. just hung out there and soaked our feet in the stream, Dale, Crazylegs, Professor, To-Phat, Gozar, Adam, and me was there. Some others showed up just as I was leaving but I did not know them. Left the park and got to Quarry gap shelters, this was one of the cleanest shelters I had ever seen, the Caretaker goes up there and cleans and stuff at least 3 times a week, he even had flowers hanging and it was such a nice shelter but I had more miles to do. Caught up with Professor at Milesburn Cabin, he was eating supper and hated it, I had just eaten or I would have ate his but I wasnt hungry. I had cheese and Pepporoni wrapped in Tortillas again for the 5th lunch in a row. got to Birch run shelter and there was a lady there out for a hike and brought some drinks and chips up to the shelter and offered to take our trash out for us, so that was really nice. slept very well in my hammock
Date: 2005-06-27
From: Birch Run Shelter

To: James frye Shelter
Miles today: 17.1

woke up around 8, very late. Left camp by 8:40 and hiked 6.2 miles in 1hr 40 mins. thats faster than 3 miles an hour. took a small break and headed on another 3.7 in 1hr 10 mins. passed the halfway point for everyone meaning the northbound people I am with. Got to Pine Groce Furnace State park. There was a general store there that is known for the 1/2 gallon challenge. 1/2 gallon of ice cream. me crazylegs and gozar did it. professor tried but didnt really wanna push himself. I ate it in 39 mins, crazylegs in 33 mins and gozar in 47 mins. I broke my spoon, but soon got another one, phoenix picked me one up. Left there and went to the lake and went swimming, Ian a section hiker was there and he got real bad chaffing after he went swimming. I washed the clothes I was wearing kinda. didnt use soap but went in fully dressed and just rinsed off I guess. Tried to use my cell from the park but I couldnt get through to anyone. called Jenny from the payphone since she was at work and it was a free call. Jenny is a friend from where I used to work, we hung out some and she was one of my hiking partners back home. she doesnt know yet if she is coming to visit. Passed a big sign where the middlepoint of the AT used to be in 1985 , the halfway point moves every year due to relocations of the trail and such. it was pretty cool. hiked 7 more miles to the james frye shelter. phoenix had walked in from a road .5 up the trail. padre, professor, crazylegs, gozar, and ian were here tonight. had Zatarinnas rice tonight with 4 tortillas, The ice cream I ate was about 3100 calories. I would say that i had at least 5500 calories today total. prolly my biggest day so far. And as I write this at almost 10 everyone else is asleep and I am kinda hungry but I think I will fast untill breakfast, also ian is now known as cowboy cause he walks like a cowboy cause of his chagging. took him 4 1/2 hrs to do 6 miles. I did it in 2, but we all have had chaffing it sucks.
Date: 2005-06-28
From: James frye Shelter

To: Harrisburg Pike, super 8 motel
Miles today: 20.2

Day 45 on the trail. woke up and left at 8:00 passed gozar and had him take my picture on the train that we was walking beside. got to the first shelter and it was like a .2 mile walk to the shelter so I just stopped at the trailhead and had a break. I made it to boiling springs which is 12 miles awayin 4 hrs. I was hauling this morning. there is another ATC office in boiling springs which actually Professor applied for a job here and almost got it. the lady who got the job said she would rather be hiking. So I stopped here for lunch. Padre came in then I soaked my feet in the creek, boiling springs gets its name from the springs that give about 32 million gallons of water a day and the water was like 50 degrees but felt like 30 degrees on my feet. phoenix showed up just after crazylegs hd left about 2:00 professor came in about 3, ten bears, gozar, professor, and me went to the italian restaurant in town. tey screwed up ten bears order so he got two subs for the price of one, and gozar got a huge stromboli and felt kinda sick, so I tried a piece and didnt really like it so I didnt help him with that. we decided to go to the hotel 8 miles away cause we werent aloud to camp anywhere for like the next 14 miles, if you get caught camping in this area you can get a $135 fine. left about 5 and got there about 7:30 got a room for the 4 of us, and then went swimming. then back to the room for the first shower in a whole week, e all smell horrible , our clothes are the worst of it. didnt eat supper cause the italion was late enough that we wasnt hungry. slept great
Date: 2005-06-29
From: Harrisburg Pike, super 8 motel

To: Duncannon, Low Bridges house
Miles today: 17.6
Weather: light rain

woke up 7:30 was on the trail by 9, hiked with professor and crazylegs. quickly I was in the middle and i never saw crazylegs again till duncannon, passed the first shelter and didnt even stop. A trail angel named mary sat some water and cookies out so I filled up my water bottle and ate some cookies, professor came up just as I was leaving and then I kept going and didnt stop untill I got to duncannon right before town there was 2 more coolers full of lemonade from mary it was really good. got to the doyle hotel that is 100 yrs old and there is a bar there. saw crazylegs and phoenix they went and saw where professor was. soon all of us was in the doyle where capors was there, he had met some girl there and thats all I will say about that. the four of us piled in phoenix's car and headed towards low bridges house. In wilimgton delaware. It was a 2 hour drive from duncannon. got there and met low bridges grandma cause its her house we were staying at. we ordered pizza and just sat around all night and talked pretty much. I went to bed about 9:30- 10 I was soo tired. it started raining today while I was hiking which felt really good but kinda sucked cause I was coming down some really big rocks and the rocks just became really slippery. glad to be under a real roof tonight cause it started pouring later on at night
Date: 2005-07-01
From: Duncannon, Low Bridges house

To: Duncannon
Miles today: 0.0
Weather: broken clouds

woke up around 7 and gram and I started cooking breakfast for everyone else.went to the supermarket to resupply and then back to low bridges house then we left and headed back to duncannon. we stopped at REI, its a Outfitter one of the big ones like LL.BEAN kinda just more towards hiking, biking, camping, left there and phoenix dropped me off at the hotel in pine grove where rachel and paula were meeting me. took a shower and just relaxed, called some people that I havnt talked to since I began the trail. Rachel and Paula arrived around 9 and we went to mcdonalds
Date: 2005-07-02
From: Duncannon

To: Clarks Ferry Shelter
Miles today: 4.6
Weather: scattered clouds

woke up around 7:30 after like 5 hrs of sleep cause me and paula watched a movie on Rachels laptop, rachel was spose to watch it but she fell asleep almost before it started. got some breakfast, packed up all my stuff and headed for the city of duncannon. drovedown the road where paula is going to pick us up, showed her where the trail crosses. got to duncannon and wrote directions down for her on how to get there. Rachel and I gave her hugs and set off to do some hiking. there were about 2 miles of walking on roads, we crossed the juanita river which was just north of where it feeds into the susquehanna river, then crossed the susquehanna river on the clarks ferry bridge. saw papa razzi and professor going back into town. they were coming back from the ayce breakfast. climbed about 800 ft and took a break for a few mins. Rachel was leading and I kept unintentionally hitting her feet with my sticks or my feet, I am not used to following somone , usually people follow me. got to the shelter and saw maygly there. I havnt seen her for awhile. Set up the hammock and tent then crazylegs papa razzi and professor showed up and at first they were gonna keep going but changed their minds. we played hackie sack for about 2 hrs off and on it was a lot of fun, Rachel and I had chicken and rice in tortillas for supper. had a fire going and professor was playing his guitar when crazylegs busted out a gatorade botle full of jim beam which was quickly gone between the 3 of them. went to sleep around 9:30 listening to fireworks going off in the distance. Rachel did very well hiking today
Date: 2005-07-03
From: Clarks Ferry Shelter

To: RTE 325
Miles today: 12.5

woke up about 7:00 ate breakfast, packed up the tent and hammock, hiking by 9, I had poptarts for breakfast, rachel ate a snickers bar, not real healthy but hey we both needed energy. hiked 4 miles in under 2 hrs. crossed pa 225 with a bridge going across it. seemed kinda funny to have a bridge for the AT over such a small road. had a break there and I ate more food. saw a dayhiker with a dog and the man was wearing blue jeans not some thing I would do on a 90 degree day. hiked 2 miles to this nice overlook and took another break. then 1 mile to the peters mtn shelter. A very nice 2 story shelter but water was 800 ft down 278 stairs thats what somone said anyways. Earl shaffer was the first person to thru hike the entire trail in 1948. there is a very small shelter here that somone said he built back then. pretty much stumbled the rest of the way and kept hitting rachels feet and one time almost knocking her over. got to the road crossing where paula was to pick us up in the morning. cooked chicken noodles and added mashed potatoes to them mmmm was it good. Rachel wasnt hungry so I ate hers. In my hamock right now writing this and it is kinda difficult to do. going to bed now. rachel is very tired, but we took it slow today so she wouldnt hurt too much. washed my shirt and socks out in the creek wow was the water cold, soaked my feet too.
Date: 2005-07-04
From: RTE 325

To: Rausch gap shelter
Miles today: 11.8
Weather: scattered clouds

woke up 7:30 and packed up the hammock and tent headed out and got to where paula was picking us up at 8. I think rachel had a good time with me. the rocks kinda got to her which they are really bad through pennsylvania. drove to the hotel and took showers. went through some gear and paula got us some food from the continental breakfast. went to the supermarket then went to this buffet but turns out it was chineese so we drove around and found a country buffet we was there for about 2 hrs and paula and rachel almost had to carry me out of there. when paula picked us up she brought some gatorade in a cooler so rachel and I went to see how many was left and they were all gone. hugged each of them and headed off. this time a little easier than last time I knew though that I prolly wont see rachel till after I get done with north maine and go south. I hiked 12 miles in 4 hrs and almost ran out of water. there were spose to be 2 creek crossings but they were both dry. then I stumbled on a spring very slow running but it worked. got to the shelter and it was a .3 mile hike into the shelter and everyone was camped out on the at at the creek. I went to the shelter cause I had to use the bathroom from the big lunch I had. but the privy burned down so that sucked. saw a couple new people and everyone thanked me for the gatorade. camped beside gozar, ug, cuppa joe, queyote and moose, soaked feet for 10 mins and had a couple pizza tortillas, I got some pizza sauce in a plastic squeeze bottle that really made them better. bed by 9
Date: 2005-07-05
From: Rausch gap shelter

To: 501 shelter
Miles today: 17.4
Weather: light rain

up at 7 slept great in my hammock, poptarts for breakfast. talked with queyote and apple pie about hiking the pacific crest trail. sounds better than the AT in some ways. hiked out by 8 passed rouch village, back in like 1870-1920 1000+ people lived here now there are not even any buildings. I didnt even see any ruins of old buildings. met bubletoes and rawhide they had camped by the billage. passed gozar crossed a lot of roads and then caught up to ug, we crossed under I-81 through a construction zone with huge g\cranes and sings that said hard hat area. that made us feel safe. started raining and rained for about 2 hrs pretty hard got soaking wet. started going up this big hill and stopped to eat some snacks, gozar caught up and queyote headed up the rest of the hill and then walked this ridge for 7 mile in a decent downpour, soaking wet finally got to the shelter and took off my boots and dryed them out, refilled water, saw sleevless at the shelter, hadnt seen her for a few weeks, she got attacked by a raccoon a few days ago, and has to get rabies shots, raccon bit her in her arm, thigh, and butt, said it really hurt , hiked the next 4 miles to the 501 shelter, the trail follows the road for about 1 mile so its hike come on when can I see the road and cross it. ordered pizza from town and then called some people back home,   writing my journal inside right now and it just started pouring and im rethinking sleeping in my hammock right now.
Date: 2005-07-06
From: 501 shelter

To: port clinton pavillion
Miles today: 23.7
Weather: broken clouds

woke up at 6 and packed up all my gear and called my mom about 7. IM so glad I stayed inside last night cause it poured for about 2 hours. started hiking about 7:30, averaged 3 mph all day, caught up with queyote about 10:30 at the hertlein campsite which was 9 miles from where we started. she had left 1 1/2 hr before me this morning. passed her then about 11:30 I stopped for lunch so then she passed me back. Hiked by myself for 3 hours then caught up to spike who is a 50 yr old retired marine helicopter pilot. he is a very nice guy and he and his wife hopper are planning on riding their bikes across america next year then the next summer float kayaks down the mississippi river. then hike the pacific crest trail next year. Hiked with him all the way to port clinton, got in about 4:30, met hopper, she is off the trail due to an injury. she is driving the truck with a camper on the back and slackpacking him untill she can get back on the trail. they offered me a cold coke so I drank that, then hiked like 5 more mins with spike to the outfitter. the guy there said he was just closing but I can give you a ride to the pacillion(shelter in town) if you want , which was about .4 away so I gladly accepted and that was very nice of him to do that. once I got thereI met ox and Papa razzi was there too. cooked chicken with cheddar and brocoli soup and pasta, It was really good. Gozar showed up and then queyote was there too.   was a huge shelter house type thing. like 100x75 enough room for about 50 hikers but only like 5 of us there.
Date: 2005-07-07
From: port clinton pavillion

To: eckville shelter
Miles today: 15.2
Weather: overcast clouds

woke up around 7 and walked up the street to a diner. razzi queyote and me were there. It was a very nice breakfast. It poured while we was eating, so we waited till it stopped raining. got back to the pavillion and packed up my stuff waited till 10 so the outfitter was open so I could buy some gaitors. gaitors are like a canvas cloth that snaps together and goes over the top part of your boots and lower part of your socks to keep dirt and sticks from getting into your boots. I hated having to stop and clean out my boots every 3 hours almost. started out hiking and hiked 2 hours by myself then caught up with gozar. hiked with him till the windsor furnace shelter. I let him borrow my mp3 player and then I hiked out, climbed 700 ft to pulpit rock, rocks were horrible on top of the mtn. then had to walk 6 miles down a old woods road. got to exkville shelter and got the next to last bunk. mick the caretaker of the shelter is kinda a rude guy, there is a fridge full of pop, gatorade, ice cream sandwiches, and other candies for donations only. the shelter actually has 6 bunks and a table and a door on the front. pretty much an old barn. 10 of us crammed in there for the night. cooked ham with potatoe soup and noodles tonight. think I might go back with the rest of the guys to duncannon tommorrow.