morvasaaty/AppalachianTrail-LD-Hikers-Blogs-and-Weather-20-years huggingface dataset:
Date: 2014-07-24
From: wildcat mount slackpack to white mount hostel

To: mount Madison stealth camp spot
Miles today: 6.7
Weather: moderate rain

Day 31 That makes a month and the hits keep coming Today sucked, why? Because mail drops suck and rock but mostly fuckin suck. It's great my madre mails food, I don't need to buy it , I save money and in this most recent case I get fancy "add water to this packet" meals. It sucks that my madre mails food, she packs as much as she thinks I need, which is too much.The food is necessary but a mail drop should only be enough to get to the next town, five days max, I had 9 dinners and 6 breakfasts and lunch. I mailed 4 dinners and like 3 breakfasts and lunches in a bounce box to the next town but blah today sucked. Every time we leave town we have a shitty day and this was no exception. We got on the trail, late as is tradition when leaving town and only busted out 8 milesish. Now we are stealth camped, that is to say we are camping in an area which isn't specifically labeled a campground just below tree line about a mile away from mount Madison's summit.   Tomorrow will be crazy literally we will be just walking on the ridge line of the presidential range and staring at crazy views. It's gonna be exposed and cold but after our sneak preview today I think I will enjoy what the whites have to offer.Today was my first real why am I doing this day/this sucks. I hope I don't have too many of these but heavy packs and big climbs are a recipe for distraction for hiker Chris and I can't let them do as much damage as they did todayMount Washington tomorrow! #ole319.4-326.1white mountian hostel Gorham NH to mount Madison stealth camp spot
Date: 2014-07-25
From: mount Madison stealth camp spot

To: lake of the clouds hut
Miles today: 8.1
Weather: clear sky

Day 32Hut people, hut people, walk like huts, talk like people So we went 8 miles today and combined with a short day yesterday to quote trumAn I kinda feel like a baby back bitch. Yes today's 8 miles included mount Washington the tallest in the northeast but it wasn't the hardest climb yet. But that's getting ahead of myself.The whites are crazy especially today. Literally all day was an exposed hike, we could see where we had been and could see where we were hiking too all day, awesomeness. Knowing that the distant mount Washington would soon be conquered only made the motivation even better. redic views abounded today and it was a joy to hike on all of them. But to be a nay sayer...... All trip I have felt the appalachian trail was made just to go over peaks however why is it that when we get to the presidential range with peaks everywhere it skirts right beside the peaks. I wish I could say I went to the top of mount Adams or Monroe or another dead old dude but instead I just can say I walked by them on my way to visit Captian cherry tree. It's annoying on multiple levels but it does mean that one day hopefully I will come back and climb to the top of all these mountains and hang out with the presidents like Keanu reeves in point break. Ya dig?Lastly we did work for stay at lake of the cloud hut. We are going to do our work in the morning and get a free breakfast out of the deal as well but it is interesting, much in the way the whites are interesting. These hits are filled with endless day hikers or M.R.'s as me and the kid have been referring to them as (moose rapers). They seem to appreciate the wilderness more than us but in the same token get beat down by it more. Slowly our sensitivity to the outdoors had numbed us for both the better and worse. Dinner was good too, for work for stay they let us get dinner leftovers, and cold chicken and pork is better than no chicken and pork, unfortunately any of their food I eat means I don't eat mine and thus my pack stays heavy. Right now I wanna sleep but the problem is the staffers, rightfully so are winding down and bringing the ruckus in their room but it's a little too loud for my liking, but it is their house and I'm just a guest. Tomorrow will prolly be short, like lemar burton in roots, the whites are really beating me down, kunta kintay326.1-334.2mount Madison stealth camp spot to lake of the clouds hut
Date: 2014-07-26
From: lake of the clouds hut

To: ripley falls stealth camp site
Miles today: 11.7
Weather: broken clouds

Day 33 New frands. Hurray. Yesterday we met brew Boone splash and k2 (who I thought was a girl because of his register entries, but that's another story entirely). We liked them but also knew we wanted work for stay at lake of the clouds so it wasn't the most ideal day to meet new people especially nice Sobos. Today they left at 630 when they woke up but we had to wait until 930 to leave because our work for stay was in the morning. Plus was we got cold breakfast (free food is great but cold bread pancakes and grits isn't exactly the greatest consolation prize for loosing three hours of hiking time) minus was we left 3 hours later.   Also our work was much harder than the others the night before. Anyways we left later and planned a big day so lots of walking ensued. I will just say this, do your work for stay at night, they may ask you to do morning tasks but if you do morning tasks know you will not only miss three hours of prime hiking time but you will be awake and sitting during them because the hut is too loud to sleep in.We walked, and walked and after 10 miles we caught up to Boone brew splash and k2. They were having a celebration for being out of the presidential range and allowed us to camp with them for the night. It was nice to meet a new group, and he first new Sobos we have met since Jim and Corrine 10 days ago. They gave us hot dogs, we told them stories of crankenstine and the synchronized swimming days (we won that exchange). I like them but at the same time I know they don't push as hard as us and eventually we will blow by, but it was nice just this once to be part of something new instead of the kid and chickenfat wandering aimlessly in the northeast. Out of the presidential range technically despite the fact that mount Lincoln stands in out way and by no means will it bow down. More tomorrow and the question, do the kid and chickenfat continue to intrude upon this establish crew or push on as two lone wolves, walking together? I honestly don't know what I want to do.........Lake of the clouds hut to ripely falls stealth camp site334.2-345.9
Date: 2014-07-27
From: ripley falls stealth camp site

To: galehead hut
Miles today: 14.2
Weather: clear sky

Day 34I know I swore off work for stay, and I know I super swore off work for stay in the morning. But here we are at gale head hut for the night and doing work for stay in the morn so might as well quit reading what I say since I go back and contradict myself anyways.This work for stay has been much better compared to lake of the clouds and I am beginning to think maybe I should have had multiple comparisons before bashing. Anyways dinner was warm and good but until I leave here tomorrow I won't have a complete idea of it. Also the crew is not bringing the ruckus so all my complaints of lake of the clouds are non existent here. Today was interesting it was the first time we have walked in a group since the day out of rangley when we lAst saw redbeard and mike and the biggest group we have been with since the hundred miles. Literally we had 7 Sobos together eating lunch at mitzpha hut and that was the most since the danger Darryl days. It was nice being with a group again and since we were not competing against them for work for stay it was easy to not hate them. Lunch at the huts is amazing 2 bucks for a bowl of soup and 1 buck for a refill. After three bowls I was good and only spending four bucks is awesome. I like the huts just work for stay I still am not quite a fan of especially since I have like 5 mountian house meals that I still am yet to eat.K2 said the kid and I have a "unique dynamic". That's true in the sense that I am always right and he is usually not. It's not arrogance on my part, it is just fact. We bicker, we get annoyed, we fight But eventually we enjoy each others company enough to say something that isn't an insult. But that doesn't happen often. At all. Night, Lincoln Tuesday getting a short 10 mile day tomorrow to put us in good position
Date: 2014-07-28
From: galehead hut

To: liberty springs campsite
Miles today: 10.3

Day 35Wet, wet and then wet if you dont think so you weren't hiking today1. Mount Garfield prolly not too bad. But it's a Monday, and if you do your research, Garfield hates Mondays. Terribly hates Mondays. Rain in your face, rain in your boots rain in your rain. Rain pants are wet, rain jacket wet, blastfamy 2 walking in the rain ain't so bad, just be positive. Yelling helped, cursing at the mountian helped, looking forward to a meal helped. Knowing I'm 3 miles from a Nero helped. 3. The kid doesn't like to talk and walk. But k2 does, so that made today better4. Tomato5. My sleeping bag is wet, what's that about. I kept it dry all day, then in some terrible, painful irony it falls into a stream wheni put it on my bag when I am setting up my tent. Terrible, I hope it's not too cold tonight6. Toemato7. I finished thank you for smoking. I like the movie but it is interesting that they had completly different plots for the most part. The movie is about him and his relationship with his son. The book about how he clears his name after a kidnapping. I like the movie though even if I found the kid annoying.8.mcdonalds and maybe a movie tomorrow #rockstar
Date: 2014-07-29
From: liberty springs campsite

To:  Chet's place Lincoln nh
Miles today: 2.9

Day 36154 pounds that's how much I weigh. I don't need to lose any more weight. It was fun but more would be the opposite of beneficial. ButtttttWho ate a whole pizza for dinner today? This guyThis Nero wAs like how any Nero should be walking followed by chill. And chill it was. We stayed at Chet's place which isn't in the guide book but my dad told me bout based on another trail journal and it is great. Entirely donation based and just a cool guy who shelters hikers in his garage. But more than that this Nero let me enjoy a movie for the first time since forever. We watched the new planet of the apes and it was great. Just so much time for some normal amenities The last two hours I read a walk in the woods, which I don't like as a book because Bryson includes too many random quips on information he provides and I reread the final part because he complained about miles I have actually hiked. One part struck me however and it was the point when he talks about hanging up his boots and how the norm becomes the exception. Town is great, spending money is ....... Greatish, watching the newest movie is great, buying extra sharp cheddar cheese is great, sitting on the internet all day is glorious. But that is because this is the exception, if I wasn't on the trail that would be all I was up to. Neros like this give me a taste of the things that I like that I am missing but only enough to satisfy myself until the next town. This was a good day of exception but tomorrow I'm ready for more of the norm. Eventually very soon in fact we will finish these damn mountians. But for now, here's to another day of tiring mountians.Also if you read this, like this sentence, just write in the guest book. I am curious about peoples motivation on reading this. It's just to your left and your left clicker on your mouse just told me it's bored of hovering over this page.Liberty springs campsite to Chet's place Lincoln nh370.4-373.3
Date: 2014-07-31
From: eliza brook shelter

To: jeffers pond shelter
Miles today: 15.9
Weather: overcast clouds

Day 38Da last day of July AND THE WHITESGet out of here you no good dirty mountians. With your climbs, and lack of rebar and pay to stay campsites, and peppy college crews who spell crew croo because that's a thing.   Get out of here lame. Too lameIt took 8 days from our slackpack of wildcat to get to here, I feel like that's not too shabby It happened though, we have passed the point where we had been warned of forever. Freakin southern Maine and the whites are officially done. There was a point today where northbounders are saying "bring it on" and "finally here". And here we are on the other side of it. Just as they have a sizable chunk of the trail done, we have a sizable chunk of the difficulty done so it's. I am tired of walking with a chip on my shoulder with these nobos who have everything up on me and now I can officially say I have finished the hardest part of the at and now to quote everybody you meet "it's all downhill"We walked 15 today they weren't hard miles, but they were long but getting to the far shelter instead of settling for nine was great. K2 was afraid it would rain and stayed behind but I thought that we should work with what we had, and we had light rain and gray skies. The light rain stopped and the gray skies turned into thunder then a clear afternoon. Instead of planning for the worst, we took stock made a decision and came out 7 miles further then they hiked today. Yes it woulda been great to see the valley from the top of my last mountain in the whites, but knowing I'm 7 miles closer makes it worth it.And now 3 things I thought about today1. If someone is being negative around you and your tired of it, say "the only room I have for negatives is in my house, and the negatives are of your mother"2. I had a dream a week ago my bro quit his job to start hiking the AT NOBO so that he could finish the trail before me. What a dream asshole 3. I listened to the first La Roux album and the song tigerlilly like 20 times and it made me bummed that I can't listen to her new album that can out earlier this month.
Date: 2014-08-01
From: jeffers pond shelter

To: hexacuba shelter
Miles today: 15.7
Weather: light rain

Day 39(Camera cuts on, Chris wipes lense, dirt and visible gunk still obscure lense but a face is visible and states directly into it)Chris: Its 39 days into my hike and food had not become scarce. So far my meals have consisted of a singular pasta side or rice side. Recently we discovered a stockpile of food and realized our resupply was in two days. Because of that I have taken up the burden of eating double meals. (Chris thoughtfully looks into the air for some deep thing to say)Sometimes, big name players, need to eat big name amounts, and I'm tryin.(Chris fails, and starts writing in a normal way again)We have 2 days till d-mouth and plan on pulling a 12 and 15 to get there. Today's 15 was probably the easiest 15 of the trail thus far. We walked 1 mile to the hikers welcome hostile, which was amazing. Why would you say that asked person sitting online, well I will tell you.   We walked in at 830 and stated we were only there to watch a movie and leave and the guy was perfectly ok with that. Awesome dude awesome place, great DVD selection. We watched mystery men, there were better selections available but I wasn't looking for a good movie (even though mystery men is fucking great) I was looking for an appropriate movie, I was looking for a movie that yelled, screamed, and hollered "you woke up early and your about to waste 2 hours watching me before you even start your 15 mile day". Anyways afterward we walked 7or 8 ish hours and made it to the shelter by 630. A long day on paper but when you take into account the 2 hour movie and 1 hour adjustment time in hikers welcome an excellent day. Clearly if you can't tell, I think that place is the bees anklesNow I'm at hexacuba shelter, it's shaped like a hexagon. It's very impressive. I just think people could be sleeping in a more economical position. But hey that's just from the guy lying in a weird sprawled out spot near the center. What does he know. Also in my more economical way of sleeping I wouldn't be at ass/fart level, but hey why don't I make friends with this dudes butt.I've been ridiculous today with my note so I'm gonna leave you with this gem. 2+2=you #grandparents
Date: 2014-08-03
From: moose mountain shelter

To: trail angel house hanover nh
Miles today: 11.0
Weather: few clouds

Day 41SUPER IMPORTANT FOR THOSE WHO PLAN ON HIKING THE TRAIL IN THE FUTURE https://app.box.com/s/r79qymo9vr4kfr78ha1l So that's a link to a PDF of the stealth campsites in the whites, the kid and I didn't have it when we did it, but it is useful because most of the campsites cost 8 bucks and you can't always count on work for stay. K2 had it and I know he utilized it twice and it was worth it both times. Anyways, it's available elsewhere but there is a link from me....... And without further adu? So greetings from Vermont, where I am. But in trail land, I am still in New Hampshire. Why? Because in Hanover, New Hampshire and questions aboundIt all starts with the lack hostels. Without a hostel thru hikers are forced to either 1 pay for an expensive room or 2 rely on the trail angel network. Me and the kid being the thrifty children we are did 2. It was the only option that made sense and after calling everyone on the list we finally eased our way into hosing for the night but it was not easy that is compared to the usual task of just walking 15ish miles to shelter. Anyways after calling we found room with the trail angel Eliza's roommate who even picked us up and fed us vegetable soup (a Filipino never says no to food, regardless of the meat to vegetable ratios) it was a 0:1 ratio but for just vegetables it was tasty. But we did so much more too! I know I said yesterday we would pull a short day to velvet rocks shelter but then I realized, why don't we go into town. It was only 11 miles of flat/downhill and I literally reasoned to the kid that it was "practically a Nero anyways". Maybe that wasn't true but it made sense in my head, as far as I'm concerned any day you can be done by 1:00 it's a Nero an we did those 11.5 3 hours and 45 mins between 915-100. Anyways hanging out in town was good, tomorrow we are pulling a Nero, going back to hanover to get free doughnuts and pizza and just chill before walking 2 miles into Vermont and spending the night at another trail angels house. Yes I know we are bad people for taking up space in trail angels houses two nights in a row, but sometimes you get a bit selfish. Our next rest is 90ish miles away and I just need something after not even having a real rest in Gorham 2 weeks ago. Dartmouth is laammmeee. If school was in session it would be much mor lively and yes there are plenty of kid prancing around but I miss the feel of college and though that this would be a taste if it. Instead it's like a zombie movie with occasionally able bodied college students and then the zombies are the hikers roaming the streets looking for the next place they will stay.That is all diary
Date: 2014-08-04
From: trail angel house hanover nh

To: trail angel house norwich vermont
Miles today: 2.2
Weather: broken clouds

Day 42Unt now the chickenfat traveling circus enters it's third state vermount, vermin, versatility, vernacular, vermillion?, Virginia. That's it, I'm in virginia. Must be anyways. Let's leave New Hampshire in its casket and reflect upon our most recent lost comradeIt took me 343 hours to do New Hampshire and they weren't the worst. Bout 1 and a half weeks of mountains for the first part then a couple of days of tunnel. What did we learn? 1.Whites ain't crap. All mountains and things in life are a terrible beast if you build em up and let them be. I was realistic, we had a day of climbing going up and down I approached it, set goals, met the goals and preped for the next day. 2. With arms wide open with creed is the best song ever, ask anyone, ask the next person you see on the street, if they don't agree, I will literally walk 1700 more miles as a punishment for my false statement3. Walking on flat terrain is much easier than mountains, yea, now you know4. Slack packing the wildcats was the smartest thing we did5. Lake of the clouds is overrated (the kid disagrees)6. Stealth camping in the whites is necessary, I think my link works, even though I've been told differently, still the PDF is available somewhere, and it ain't too hard7. Privys with no sides be grossHostels best to worst1. Chet's place, free can't argue that2 hikers welcome. We didn't stay there but they just let us watch a movie fo free3 white mountain hostel, was great but more pricy and we is cheap, breakfast was the bomblet tooFood we ate, top three1. C and h Pizza in Lincoln 2. Rumondos pizza in hanover3. Dynasty buffet in GorhamBest shelters1. Hexacuba shelter, was awesome, it was a hexagon, my favorite nomero is 6 so yeahAmc huts1.galehead hut, nice staff, sick location2. Lonesome lake beautiful view3. Is he really4. Just doing this5. So that he can 6. Give the lowest7. Rating to the 8. Lake of the clouds hut(Yes he is)Tonight we are staying with trail angel W.T a nice older gentleman who gave us chips and guac and s'mores And let us wash our clothes and shower. Anyways amazing guyAnyways hijinks aside, I'm grateful to all of yull for reading this I'm glad someone actually reads this and The kid and I look forward to climbing over the hills of vermin? Versatile? Ventricle? Virginia. Virginia the third state on the trail for a sobo. Happy trail442.1-444.3
Date: 2014-08-05
From: trail angel house norwich vermont

To: 8/14 Update
Miles today: 0.0
Weather: scattered clouds

I just got to Mass. today and got two days until my parents come. If your wondering what happened to my beautiful updates, my iphone broke 8/6 when my pocket got wet. Since then I have been writing daily in a book and plan to transcribe it when i get to a computer this weekend. I am currrently in a library in North adams, and have 6:25 left to write this before i get logged off by my 15 min timelimit. LAME. and yes my phone was in a lifeproof nuud case. Shit sucks it broke, now i need to contact lifeproof hopefully get some pity and if not bite the bullet. I will update and it shall all be better sunday, stay tuned.
Date: 2014-08-05
From: trail angel house norwich vermont

To: thistle hill shelter
Miles today: 12.5
Weather: scattered clouds

8/5So now i am writing on a notepad because the iphone is donezo¢¦People always talk about regretting things you don¢t do. So when something pops up I do it. We were at a place that was doing trail magic and they told us there was a bridge we could jump off. I wanted to jump off it so I did. Then I wanted to jump off and have someone take a picture of me, so I did that. Then I Jumped off and had a video taken of me doing it. SO THE NEXT LOGICAL STEP IS WHAT? Oh yea jump off the bridge while taking a vine, because I chris leblanc am a child of the internet. A SON OF THE WORLD WIDE WEB. A kid with web addiction. AAAAAAnyways I jumped off the bridge, 30 feet into the water while taking a vine with the phone in my hand. It went over well, the vine lasted long enough that for me to see the loop (it wasn¢t a very good video ?). Moral of the story, the lifeproof case turned out to be not ¢hikeproof¢. But hey, my phones fucked, no use in crying over spilt milk, it happened¢¦. Now I got a note pad. To quote forrest gump ¢ that¢s all I have to say about the war in Vietnam¢So heres the rest of the day in review¢¦¢¦.Vermont is different as previously noted. I have officially walked through more fields in this state mmore than in the previous 400 miles. In a related note, walking through fields is AWESOME. I love being in the open air even if all there is to stare at is grass.Vermont trail magic is on point. First we stayed at two trail angels houses and they were super nice. And then there is the guy who told us about the awesome bridge to jump off of (and we don¢t fault him for the phone) bridge jumping is amazing.Walking here is noticeably different too. We just go over rolling hills. You change from modertaly tired to moderately not tired and then back again. Little down, little up. Tiny little jelly rolls. Vermont jelly rolls¢¦¢¦¢¦.I bummed that I wi have to transcribe these onto a comp later but I live, I learn, I badmouth lifeproof a little on my trail journal with that extra annoyed aggression and hopefully next time that you jump off a bridge into the water¢¦.. your phone survives the same as youALSO 7 sobos in one place. THAT¢S CRAY, `13 to a cool place tomorrow.