morvasaaty/AppalachianTrail-LD-Hikers-Blogs-and-Weather-20-years huggingface dataset:
Date: 2014-10-20
From: mountian harbor hiker hostel

To: roan high knob shelter
Miles today: 15.8
Weather: scattered clouds

Day 118I officially have a new hiker who I don't like. So that's good, but it's just hilarious, so hilarious. I'm not a crazy guy, nor am I very overbearing however when you treat another human with hostility out of nowhere, you get on the chickenfat shit list!!!!So what did these hikers do? Let me say this first there are 2 of them and the girl seems nice, but the dude was like a quadruple dick so that balances it out and makes them shitlist. So here we are what did they do? Here's excerpts from the weird convosThe fatness: so how far yull goin?Douche: (does not answer)The fatness: so when did you start?Douche and girl: uhh mid¢¦¢¦ Uhh Late June(As if you don't know)The fatness: I'm just trying to figure out when you started because I'm curious how we haven't metDouche: we came out here to hike not compare numbers or things like thatAnyways those are the three things I got from them in three questions. Now I say I haven't done anything to them but what methinks is they are not a fan of the fats trail register entry's (you know cus they have no sense of humor) and now they decided they don't like me. All I'm saying is I did nothing to them and he acted like a dick. Plus he hiked in a fedora.He hikes in a fedoraHE hikes in a fedoraHE Hikes in a fedoraHE HIkes in a fedoraHE HIKes in a fedoraHE HIKEs in a fedoraHE HIKES in a fedoraHE HIKES In a fedoraHE HIKES IN a fedoraHE HIKES IN A fedoraHE HIKES IN A FedoraHE HIKES IN A FEdoraHE HIKES IN A FEDoraHE HIKES IN A FEDOraHE HIKES IN A FEDORaHE HIKES IN A FEDORA.!!!!!!Yea I must be and douche, I just calls em as I sees em. And sometimes I calls em as I observed them after a talk with them.Also they set up their tent in a shelter. What? You serious. Not only is he standoffish to the nth degree but then he recklessly breaks hiker protocols. If I wasn't so damn lazy I would start pack up at 6 to fuck with them, but since I am ill just do my best to give him the old rebound douching. Cus that's what I'm good at.Also I walked 16 today, I can't do 25 anymore. After 6 weeks in a row of over 20 average, these last for weeks I am going to chill. I can't motivate myself nor put my body back through that pain. It's a completely different mindset that is gone, unless I have a good reason. Not just the Georgia shelter challenge.Which is something I made up last night but won't do because I would need to average 21.5 for 14 days and I can't go back to walking 9 hours a dayGeorgia shelter challengeStay in every shelter on the AT in Georgia12 shelters in 74 milesAveraging 7.4 per dayAnd one of the days is only 1.2 milesAnyways it seemed fun but seeing as I won't be able to make my finish date if I dilly dallied around like that, I'm leaving it to someone else. It would be a fun way to start/end a thru hike. And if you started you thru hike like that then you be sure each night you would get room in the shelter¢¦.. Anyways just a thought a smart one, like all my other thoguhts
Date: 2014-10-21
From: roan high knob shelter

To: deer gap campsite
Miles today: 21.8
Weather: overcast clouds

Day 119I really don't have it in me to do 20s anymore. My body is just kinda blah after those weeks and the thought that if it is 300 and I have 10 miles to go is so bad and morbid it makes me wanna puke.I did 22 today finished at six but it's all for a good purpose. Erwin Tennessee and a 13 mile day tomorrow. I won't regret that, hopefully it's not too cold tomorrowI was talking to another sobo and he was saying he could see a wave of sobos dropping out now that every day it's cold and waking up kinda sucks. I hope that does not happen to anyone I know, but if it does I hope they finish another year. You know, cept for the thru hikers I don't like.Also the fedora dude does not have a trail name, I'm thinking fedora the explorer
Date: 2014-10-22
From: deer gap campsite

To: uncle johnnys hostel, erwin tn
Miles today: 13.0
Weather: light rain

Day 120I gotta say, reading those last two comments on the guest book got me back up. That is allAnyways so today a "quick 13" then a chill day in town with my homeboy, your homeboy, EVERYONES HOMEBOY, Jerry Garcia. The dog at uncle johnnys hostel and not the rock God, but let's be honest, who would I really rather see right meow?Anyways as I said a quick 15 done in about 4 and a half hours cus this man wanted a break. I could go into detail about how David awol miller led me adrift, saying the wrong milage, but I'll leave that as a pleasant surprise for em when you hike. Nevertheless what did I do post 1:15 after I arrived here1. Chill with jerry (the dog)2. Take shower3. Browse the Internet and chill with jerry (the rocker) (jk,the dog, what are you on drugs?)4. wait till 5 to get dinner and watch South Park with jerry the singer (he's dead, it was the dog)5. Get some trail magic and free dinner then buy breakfast at Walmart for an early start6. Watch workaholics and South Park till 11:00 with jerry Garcia the lead singer of the grateful dead (and by that I mean the dog, let it go he's not coming back)That was my day, a day both Jerry Garcia would be proud of, but since we only have one, if your proud of the day we had lay on your back while I take a selfie......And there you have it.....My scheduleHot springs nc: Sunday nightClingmans dome: next FridayFranklin nc: Friday after nextGa/nc border: Sunday after nextSpringer mountian aka THIS IS WHAT YOU CALL A MOUNTAIN, I've CLIMBED SOUTHERN MAINE! IVE CLIMBED THE WHITES....whatever I'm still going to have an amazing celebration: November 15 Also can we all be honest? Can someone explain how a fedora is proper hiking gear? Whatever he's infront of the fatness now, I am just sayingAlso, no I have no clue if "the kid" is on the trail. That is why I wanted fedora the explorer to tell me when he started, but you know, some people came out here to hike. And not make casual conversation, and just be rude, and wanted chickenfat to be vocal about them on his trail journal.I walked all day thinking about my most clever comeback to the whole "I came out here to hike" argument" and the best I got was me saying "oh really cus I came out here to stay in shelters and smear my shit on the walls, now I can see why we misunderstood where we were coming from" however Im not that quick in the moment, and of you are, you are John Wayne.
Date: 2014-10-23
From: uncle johnnys hostel, erwin tn

To: low gap campsite
Miles today: 20.4
Weather: overcast clouds

Day 121I walked 16 miles then WHAT THE HELL. That what the hell was in response to the picture included for the day. A complete 360 panorama of just mountains. That was amazing and one of the best views I have seen all trail. Just uhhhhhhhhhhh crazy.I thought of a joke today,What do you call a cold primate?A burrillaSo I was reflecting and I stopped talking about general things with hiking some time ago. I think because I was murdering myself doing those 20+ days. So I'm gonna try and make an effort to give my thoughts on things.Starting now, day hiker/section hiker animosity:It exists, I mean I regularly bitch here about dirty MRs but that's moreso for fun. My thought on why it exists is you have thru hikers, working their butts off day in and day out to, get to places and finish. Then when there are the day/section hikers they can just enter and exit as they please. They can sit down and have a 2 hour hot lunch (I saw this 2 days ago) and as thru hikers we feel jealousy over the fact that while yes, we could take a long lunch, every second we are not walking just delays the inevitable. No matter what the miles don't disappear so they must be walked. MRs and section hikers get a freedom out in the woods that we aren't allotted and for that I get jealous¢¦¢¦occasionally. And the other reason is they sometimes arent aware of hiker protocol, the worst of all that happens all the time.IF A HIKER IS GOING UPHILL, THAT HIKER HAS THE RIGHT OF WAY, and the hiker going downhill should step to the side.But I'm preaching to the wrong choir because yull are smart and that's why you read this journal.Or maybe it's a William hung senario and yull just wanna see how bad can I be¢¦¢¦..
Date: 2014-10-24
From: low gap campsite

To: jerry (not garcia) (dog or person) cabin shelter
Miles today: 20.8

Day 122Chickenfat advice: on weekends, stay in shelters.So I had this fortune last week, and figured why not try again. Staying in shelters and not camping on the weekend is the thing to do because of MRs. It awesome, there was a crew of hikers last weekend and today that gave me things. A tuna packet, gold fish and hand warmers. Always talk to the weekend hikers and if you are lucky and they are nice and loaded down (which they usually are) you are in a good position.Also my entry in the shelter log was funny: ¢I came here to hike, and smear my shit all over shelter walls, and I'm all outta shit¢Tomorrow 20 to position myself for a super easy day into town.Lastly hobo has written in the log books that he wants to hike with me. I wanna hike with him too, but he's like 2 days away infront and has no clue how far back I am. I'm sure I'll catch him in the smokies, then I can have a nice last 2 weeks chillin and hiking with someone, you know, besides my alter ego evilfat
Date: 2014-10-25
From: jerry (not garcia) (dog or person) cabin shelter

To: north pump gap loop trail campsite
Miles today: 21.5
Weather: clear sky

Day 123Yup the countdown is in full effect, I don't feel like writing right now but I may do the Georgia shelter challanenge. And if I did starting tomorrow I could tell you everywhere I am staying for the next three weeks.I know I said I wasn't, but then I decided I'm an idiot who loves pain and punishment, so here we areI now have like 280 miles and 2 weeks and 6 days. Life is crazy. Longer entry tomorrow after my easy 5 mile day to town
Date: 2014-10-27
From: hostel at the laughing heart lounge, hot springsnc

To: max patch summit
Miles today: 19.8
Weather: clear sky

Day 125This is that day.In three weeks from now when I'm sitting at home thinking about the trail and what I'm missing, this is what I am going to think about.Scuttlebutt (the girl), twinkle toes, arbor, the kid, and wolf burger along with day hiker Corrine and harpers ferry nobo inchworm shared the night together atop max patch. Max patch is a bald moubtain and now is the site of my first cowboy camp ever.Cowboy camping is when you forgo the tent and just sleep with the stars as your ceiling. It's a different feeling I never have experienced and I feel bad every time I close my eyes. The wind constantly reminding you your outside, the stars harassing the night sky, the horizon your boundaries of sight.Somehow despite the fact I have hiked 1850 miles I have experienced a new outdoors adventure today. Since I got here at 5 today I have been surrounded by openness it's a completely indescribable and foreign friend but a good one and one i welcome with open arms.The company was great too (thanks to some wine from Corrine) and wedding cake from a couple celebrating their anniversary we feasted tonight as well.It's been awhile since I it to camp and did something that wasn't the, 1.sit2. Filter3. Set up4. Cook food5. Eat6. Read7. Sleep Routine that I have programmed myself into. The variables of having 6 new people made today interesting and fun and I even threw my frisbee for the first time since Dartmouth college in Hanover nh.It's sad that I found people that I like, and am promptly going to lose them tomorrow. In the great smokey mountains you need to pay every night and give the Rangers a schedule and mine stars tomorrow, when they are only doing a 15 to my 25. I'll see them again in Georgia on the day they pass me so we will meet again, but it's going to be an interesting weekI have 180 miles and 7 days to go now. Hell week version 3.0But for now, let me let the stars and wind take me away.
Date: 2014-10-28
From: max patch summit

To: cosby knob shelter
Miles today: 24.0
Weather: overcast clouds

Day 126Hell week 3.0 chugs on with its first 25.Today I hiked with the same crew for 15 however when twinkle and company got off at I 40 for trail magic from one of his followers (where's the love for the fat) I kept on pushingI'll write 2 things one funny one serious.Serious: so the whole reason for the Georgia shelter challenge is I feel that I have been more or less aimlessly walking for the past 2 weeks. Averaging 15 has been good for breaks but 4 weeks of 15 just seems excessive and easy. I sat and wandered what the hell I am doing, I'm not making miles, I'm not really getting much closer what the hell. While the Georgia shelter challenge means that I will have more time for ¢excessive breaks¢ it's my hope that actively doing nothing will be just the same as doing something and will cure my boredom, and worst comes to worst, least I'm not pushing hard after these 8 daysFunny: I started signing a person named mayor Delmarva in the trail registers. Me and the mayor have been hiking for the last 50 miles and it is my hope that we can continue to springer together. However I have a sneaking suspicion that mayor Delmarva will have a heart attack at the last shelter and I will spread his ashes on the mountain. But you know, how could I know that because he's my new favorite hiking partner.a little about the Mayor1. He was born in Jackson Mississippi2. He draws a confederate flag after every journal entry3. He was born in 19324. He has a 42 pound pack, and 22 pounds of it is dedicated to carrying his favorite trail snack, breakfast and dessert, CABBAGE!5. He is extremely distrustful of modern day machinery, but accepts it as a necessary evil for the availability of cabbage(Yea hiking alone all day makes you think of real dumb things)
Date: 2014-10-29
From: cosby knob shelter

To: icewater spring shelter
Miles today: 20.3
Weather: light rain

Day 127So if I Must say so I Am A very agreeable personHere's a picture of the smokies, notice all the clouds and lack of sights. Yup nature shure can be beautifulI would say more but my phone is acting up. Tomorrow a 20I heard the weather for Saturday aka I want perfect weather for the 50 mile slack pack won't be great. Hopefully it lightens up.Walked in rain today. Then it stopped and I walked in wet shoes.Mayor Delmarva also walked in wet shoesThat is all
Date: 2014-10-30
From: icewater spring shelter

To: russel feild shelter
Miles today: 30.2

Day 128I wish I could use two photos today because it was a dead heat.Clearly I went with the classier one. If you arnt awares that is clingmans dome, the highest place on the Appalachian trail. It was exciting to get there this morning and do my usual people watching thing. I got there ten miles into the day. Keep that in mind¢¦.10 miles into the day.The runner up was the 2000 mile marker which come to think of it, I didn't even think about licking. This was probably more due to the fact that the clock was winding down on my day and I wanted to get to shelter. I got to the 2000 mile marker 25 miles into my day. 25 MILES INTO MY DAYSO CLEARLY ITS HELL WEEK 3.0One funny thing about clingmans dome i I realized, while its not all downhill from here, it can't be any more uphill than today was so, yay?Lastly i pushed today, the shelter I reserved (and therefore should have stayed at was mile 21) then I skipped the one at 28 and aimed for 31. Why did I push? So that tomorrow I can ideally do about 27 and then the slack pack day can be 40 instead of 50¢¦. Yea it all kinda sucks but when I'm sitting on my butt drinking mojitos with mayor Delmarva in Georgia, I'll be happy.And here is a poor vine I took of clingmans dome as I was descendinghttps://vine.co/v/OOKnH3zPLYpI'm
Date: 2014-10-31
From: russel feild shelter

To: microtel inn and suites robbinville nc
Miles today: 28.9

Day 129 Hell week v 3.0 BLASTFAMY!!!!Now in a normal week, hiking at 10 would be fine, but this is hell week so we gotta do what we gottA do(Click the link)http://vimeo.com/m/49713035HIKING AT 11, that's what I'm doing and shall be doing for three more days!!Interviewer:the fatness, sir fatness, how does one hike at 11?King fatness: I'm glad you asked that, it's an excellent question. It's up to the individual how they choose to crank the knob. Obviously high miles are a necessity, but there is something I do as well. Interviewer:well what do you do archduke of fatness?Rear admiral of fatness:Once I was with a hiker that described his adaptation to hiking in the rain as "smoke hard when it rains", well I don't smoke, but I do sing...Interviewer: a singer, I hope your good.Captain fatness: sing, then sing harder when it rains, that's how I hike, and yes I am a great singer.Ok here we go, 2 quotes about my amazing singing that I got today, both of them flatteringDay hiker 1: "that wAs singing? I thought those were coyotes"Day hiker 2: "we heard you 15 mins before we saw you and thought it was a couple fighting"So basically the reviews are in and the people like the singingIn all seriousness, when I need to go one louder, and go 11 I do sing. Today I did 27ish, and those last 7 were in rain and high winds. During that span I went to the old pump up music selection and listened 2 of my pump up albums And then the third, was just my trail stapleRage against the machine by rage against the machineDude ranch by blink 182Begin to hope by Regina Spector Lastly if you read this blog, you are obligated to listen to this song, ever since last Wednesday I have listened to this song probably 40 songs, it is by far the most 11 song I have on my iPod at this moment. Also interesting history tidbit, it was recorded 45 years ago to the day, so there is a second reason to listen to itMotor city is burning by MC5http://youtu.be/-y871cCYOyU
Date: 2014-11-01
From: microtel inn and suites robbinville nc

To: microtel inn and suites franklin nc
Miles today: 21.5

Day 130I am not excited to walk tomorrow.I have 55 miles left and 2 days. While I didn't eXactly plan on today being restful I couldn't have imagined it being any more stressful than planned.As you know I pushed to get out of the smokes because of the Friday snow, then yesterday I pushed 9 more so I could stay infront. Today's 21 was crazySnow sucks, it's something I haven't dealt with and I am glad. Furthermore I'm glad I am where I am right now for the snow aka, the bottom of NC after the terrible mountains. I saw. Picture of knives and unplugged getting ready to climb roan high knob, completely covered, plastic bags on their hands, and just accepting of their fate. Roan high knob I climbed 12 days ago and it was threatening to be cold, now the cold is an all out adversary. I guess the redeeming factor is if they get cold they can hug each other So how was my hike? ShittyI started at 9 intending on a 25, walking through snow however is a timorus beastie. Plus add the fact I got new shoes and there was a plethora of rocks buried, the going was tough and slow. Finding the trail wasn't bad, but that's it, everything else was terrible. Lifting my foot high to avoid knee, the wind/snow bitch slapping my face, my gloves freezing. It wasn't fun.Then the snow stopped, I was following the tracks of ketchup and it only slightly sucked. Long story short, hike sobo. I've heard stories of nobos getting snowed in the the smokies, starting every day walking through snow. If you wanted to, you could walk the whole trail sobo without snow, plenty of people do, then again plenty of people walk nobo without snow. My last thought on why you should sobo. When I had 400 miles left it was that day knives and unplugged are on. Yea there are mountains to climb but also that's all there is the smokies, which are only difficult if there is snow. For nobos when you have 40 miles left you finally reach the whites and MAINE which you have been dreading for months. When I finished the whites, we camped in the first shelter after them. A nobo asked me "how hard are the whites" it's a question he had all trail. Now there arnt any nobos out here anymore, but if there were and I was 300 miles back I can promise you I wouldn't be asking any of them About how hard the upcoming terrain is.
Date: 2014-11-02
From: microtel inn and suites franklin nc

To: albert mount firetower
Miles today: 29.1
Weather: few clouds

Day 131Handle problems one at a time in order of most important¢¦..I don't know how to set up a hammock, never done it been a tenter all my life. The problem is I now have a hammock, because of all the sitting im gonna do in Georgia. While it seems urgent that's actually problem 2, problem 1 is I still got a 25 between me and ga, not terrible, but all focus is there till its done.Regardless of the fact I don't know how to put a hammock up, currently I am in one writing. I hope it doesn't fall, it wasn't my intention to hammock but the fire tower was closed and this is the backup plan, try and set up a hammock in the dark for the first time ever. Yesterday my dad said there was a good video online. But I was too busy instfaceblogging to care, but we already knew I'm in idiot so who cares.Anyways I'm at mile 100.1, literally almost less than 100 To go and I am 25.9 away from the shelter tomorrow and the start of the Georgia shelter challenge as well as the official end of hell week version 3.0. I'll have more time to write and make better entries then but know, I'm so glad I'm almost done and tomorrow it will feel like the greatest relief in human history when I show up knowing I only have to average 7.4 miles per day till the end after tomorrow
Date: 2014-11-03
From: albert mount firetower

To: plunorchard gap shelter
Miles today: 26.0

Day 132Forgive me if I'm distracted, I just poured fruit juice al over my sleeping bag and I'm a lil pissed, however I made it to ga and plum orchard gap shelter and now have a 7 mile day.Officially the Georgia shelter challenge has begun, and I think the best way to put it in perspective is in these last 3 days I did 75 miles, and in these next 12 I will do 74.1. Yea, time to chill out indeed
Date: 2014-11-05
From: deep gap shelter

To: tray mount shelter
Miles today: 7.4
Weather: overcast clouds

Day 134So that was an extremely difficult picture to take. Let's just say pre trail chickenfat couldn't do that, hanging by 1 arm in the air, but losing 30 pounds will do that to a man.Today was nice, I mean clearly somehow, those 7.4 miles wore me down, but I made it and chilled at the shelter alone. Reading my book, the death cure, the second book in the maze runner trilogy, and surprisingly I am enjoying it. It's hard to really say what happened in those hours from 2-6 though cus it really was sit, read, move, take picture, wonder why my hand smellsRealize I propped my camera on the old privy bottomCome to the shocking realization I have fecal matter somehow on my handGet out the hand sanitizer Smell afterward, and see the smell is still thereRealize, it also smells like tunaRealize I ate tunaCome to realization, old tuna on hands smells like fecesAlso come to realization that I shouldn't prop the camera on old privy seat regardless of wither or not it's the source of the bad smellRead more till 6 After 6 wazi, dreamer and a girl section hike, her name was nobody but she changed it and I can't remember showed up. It is crazy that people I know are going to finish, their date is a mere 4 days away. We sat, they started gathering fire wood, something I almost did earlyer, till I realized the name was chickenfat and not chickenletsgowAsteAlotofenergybygAtheringfirewood. Then I sat at a fire and talked from 7-10.Just sitting with other hikers is amazing and it's always a welcome experience for me because I hardly done it all trail. Last time was max patch 9 days ago then before that, Virginia. Sitting, telling stories, making connections is something I wanted to do when I set out on this trail. I didn't do as much of it as I planned, but that's what the Georgia shelter challenge is all about, being slow, and heckling those who pass you