morvasaaty/AppalachianTrail-LD-Hikers-Blogs-and-Weather-20-years huggingface dataset:
Date: 2005-07-08
From: eckville shelter

To: eckville shelter
Miles today: 0.0
Weather: moderate rain

woke up 5:30 to the pouring rain, queyote was already up and getting ready to leave. I went back to sleep. the plan was to have somone pick us up and drive us back to duncannon to the billbille festival. papa razzi left around 7:30 casue he didnt think everyone else was still going. we all got up around 8 crazy legs professor and low bridge was kinda upset with razzi. cause they had just waited up on him to catch up and now he just goes and takes off like that. professor finally got ahold of his friend jester and he said he would come pick us up. so while we waited we played hackie sack, crazylegs beat me in a game of chess, jester finally came about 1:30 and we were in duncannon by 3. got to the park where we were camping and set up my hammock around the soccer goal posts. some people cooked us supper, miss janet, baltimore jack, trail angel mary, bag of tricks, and jester, these are just a couple of the trail legends that really have helped out hikers in the past and are ahowing their kindness once again. they had hot dogs with all the condiments you could ever want and pasta salad and chips. they said that if there were any leftovers they would cook for us tommorrow so we made sure there wasnt any. there was a woman playing the guitar and harmonica so that was nice, bout 30 of us went down to the doyle hotel which has a bar in it. the doyle is a hotel that Anhieser busch built like more than 100 yrs ago to promote their beer. it still is a hotel and is in pretty good condition. just sat around talking with people, me and crazylegs left about 12:30 was just soooo many people in there.
Date: 2005-07-09
From: eckville shelter

To: eckville shelter
Miles today: 0.0
Weather: scattered clouds

woke up at 7:30 and walked over to where this guy named malla was cooking breakfast for all of us. then someone told me about packstock. Packstock, I had just met the day before. anyways he had too much to drink the friday night in the doyle hotel and got kicked out and then he precedded to go down to the railroad tracks and lay down on them and got hit by a train and died. since I am just now typing this 3 weeks after it happened I now know that it was ruled as a suicide for some reason. so this morning was kinda gloomy as everone heard the news. I went down to do laundry and met a girl named firefly who said she lives in atlanta and she will be doing trail magic down there about the same time I get down there. went to the library with only one computer and got right in. 20 mins later 8 other people came in wanting to use the computer so I felt bad and didnt wanna keep them all waiting for another hour so I got off and went back to the park. playd hackie sack and then ate lunch. pork, potatoe salad and orn on the cob, a guy from the town made some homemade ice cream, he had vanilla, chocolateand blackberry. all three was very good. came back down to the library to finish my journals but still people on so just sitting here waiting. finally got my journals updated and then went back to camp and ate supper then we watched a movie that a guy who hiked in 03 made about his hike. his name was lion king and the movie was excellent. it was about 1 hr long and even had music in the background it was very well done. went to bed about 11 tonight.
Date: 2005-07-10
From: eckville shelter

To: allentown hiking club shelter
Miles today: 7.4
Weather: clear sky

woke up and Had church service, one of the local pastors came up and ran it. we sang songs and prayed for 45 mins. ate a late breakfast around 10 then jester said he would take us back to the trail an hour away he told us to wait down at the doyle so we walked down there and waited on the balcony porch. finally left duncannon at 3:30 and arrived at eckville shelter by 5. cooked supper here and decided to night hike to allentown shelter. we left around 8 and started up this big hill. got up the hill before we had to use our headlamps. rocks were horrible for 4 miles once we got up the hill. had to go real slow so we didnt loose our way, I lead the whole time cause my head lamp was the brightess got to the shelter at 12 midnight and cowboy camped which means to roll out your sleeping bag and sleep under the stars. I have to get up early in the morning cause my brother Ben and his Wife Candace are coming to see me tommorrow 17 miles away and im meeting them about 1 pm, I am so thankfull that I have had so many people to come see me. my parents, Rachel and her mom, ben and candace, it really means a lot to me that they all come.
Date: 2005-07-11
From: allentown hiking club shelter

To: lehigh gap
Miles today: 17.4

woke up at 5 am couldnt sleep anymore, out of camp at 6 pretty much had a uneventfull day cause I was hiking so fast. met tink she is flip-flopping too and she started in harpers ferry. cantelope was with her she is just doing 2 weeks and she does every year. stopped by a cell phone tower to call ben and candace, I had 5 miles to go where they were suppose to meet me and ben said they were 1 hr away so I double timed it and made the 5 miles in 1 1/2 hour got down there 5 mins after they drove up. we had don pablos for lunch, which bummed me out I was hoping they would have wanted to eat some ramen noodles out of my pack. lol just kidding. went to wally world to put pics on a disc and got some more food went to a movie, saw cinderella man, was about a boxer, went to sleep I really am glad they came to visit me today.
Date: 2005-07-12
From: lehigh gap

To: leroy A smith shelter
Miles today: 16.1
Weather: overcast clouds

breakfast at the hotel, to the mall again, went to the goodwill store for new hiking shorts which I threw them away two days later. to a diner for lunch then got dropped off at the trail at 12 noon.   In my pics soon you will be able to see what I had to climb up first thing out of lehigh gap and it was about 92 degrees then. I was sweating buckets for an hour straight. think I host 4 lbs of water weight just coming up that hill. met the ridgerunner, very nice guy carrying a rake and a pair of trimmers to trim branches and stuff in the trail. no very many people do this. we walked along this ridge where there were no trees just rocks and dead trees everywhere. very weird place. dont know why trees all died. prolly from no soil got to the shelter and i had caught up with professor, crazylegs and low bridge,tink and cantelope were there too.   some more people I didnt know were there too. slept in my hammock and it rained but i didnt get wet
Date: 2005-07-13
From: leroy A smith shelter

To: delaware water gap
Miles today: 20.2
Weather: broken clouds

day 60 on the trailgot up horribly late at 8 didnt leave shelter till 9 I was the last one there. slept in my hammock last night and it rained but I didnt get wet. started the day with about 1 1/2 liters of water and I knew that there wasnt any water for 14 miles I just didnt wanna walk .8 mile out of the way to get water. I just needed to conserve my water and only a few sips every 20 mins passed professor, got to wind gap where there was a road crossing, a trail angel had left some water there, out of 10 gallons there was only about 2 gallons left I only took 20 oz cause there was people behind me who needed water too prolly. started climbing out of the gap when it started pouring buckets of rain. I could barely see casue the rain was running off my bandanna so fast. it poured like that for 15 mins then drizzled for awhile, caught up to bubbletoes and fancypants they were taking a break. passed them then took a break and ate some lunch. saw the ridgerunner again he had his wife with him this time. he is by far the nicest ridgerunner I have met so far. got to kirkridge shelter and got water and headed onto town started pouring again and rained almost the whole way to twon. hiked with bear the last 3 miles got to town and went to the hostel which was free but it was full so we went to the ramada hotel in town.
Date: 2005-07-15
From: delaware water gap

To: Mohican outdoor center
Miles today: 10.5
Weather: overcast clouds

Ate breakfast at the hotel, walked up to the hostel and talked to some people. didnt leave town till 12 had to cross the delaware river on like a mile long bridge with semis buzzing right beside me, once we got across the bridge we was in jersey, we were also in the delaware water gap park now. we only did 10 miles today so I hiked slower then I would of usually. started up this hill and I passed all kinds of dayhikers and they all asked questions and was amazed that I was hiking all the way to maine. came up on 4 teenagers out for the weekend, one of them had flip flops on and two others had brand new boots on. didnt see andyone else till I got to the campsite. camel was getting picked up there by his parents, saw africa there I hadnt seen him for at least 3 weeks. It was nice to talk to him again camped next to crazylegs, professor and bridge,   somone came over and told us that there was a bear 50 yrds from us,. we went and saw it I almost got a pic but somone got too close and scared him away. rained again tonight so gonna have to carry a wet hammock tommorrow started reading a book the other night, INTO THE WILD is the name. Its about this guy named chris mccandless who died in alaska from starvation, his life is full of amazing adventures. by telling you he dies is not ruining the book because it says he dies on the front cover. its more like a bibiography than a story type book. its a real page turner though. I can barely get any hiking done cause Ive been reading it so much.
Date: 2005-07-16
From: Mohican outdoor center

To: Gren Anderson Shelter
Miles today: 20.9
Weather: overcast clouds

woke up and tore down camp. ate a snickers, granola bar and two breakfast bars to get some energy. I drank 20 oz of tang, its like a orange juice mix stuff. It is good for you so I try to drink more of that then gatorade. left camp by 8 . got on the trail and within 15 mins i saw another bear. so now I am up to 7 bear, 5 rattlesnakes,1 copperhead snake, 1 thousand chipmunks, squirrel and deer. got to a fire tower and debated whether to climb to the top but there was a big sign that said NO TRESPASSING WITHOUT PERMISSION. So I opted not to climb it. gypsie lu lu caught up with me, we saw bear prints in the mud. caught up with hazysonic and firefly who are from indianapolis. hiked right around them all day long. got to culvars gap and walked .2 down the road to a grill and ate some early supper with them. the sunset grill is not real hiker friendly . they were not too bad to us but some others have said that they have had bad experiences. hiked on and came upon another firetower. drenched with sweat we decided to climb it. took some pics there and let the strong breeze dry us off. only had like another 2 miles to the shelter so I took my time. got to the shelter and there were about 11 people there and I was the only thru hiker. a guy named olivier was here from france hiking. he talked english pretty well. It was pretty funny listening to him talk. slept in my hammock, rained again. I let some guy get in my hammock to try it out. he liked it
Date: 2005-07-17
From: Gren Anderson Shelter

To: Murray Shelter
Miles today: 18.3
Weather: light rain

I got all packed up including my wet hammack and was out of camp by 7:30. Hiked 6 miles and came to the mashipacong shelter. Tink had just left but Hazysonic and Firefly were still there. They are late risers and didn't leave till about 10:30. There is no water there so I hiked on and there was a road crossing right by the shelter. Near the road someone had left water so I filled up. Passed Tink, came to a vista where you are are supposed to be able to the New York City skyline. Got to the High Point State Park and was able to get water and use the restrooms. Tink came and we ate lunch there, hazysonic and Firefly came up. I headed off to high point shelter, stopped ther and Ryan who is a southbounder. He started from mt Katahdin on May 19th. He is anly carrying abot 12-15 lbs and he is now doing 25-30-mile days. I talked to him for quite a while. Crossed alot of roads and finally got to the Murray Sheltr. It is a secret shelter on this guys property and is not really a shelter it is a shelter with running water and cold showers. Although someone found the false panel and turned on the water, so we had hot showers even though we wern't supposed to. About 15 people are here at the shelter tonight.
Date: 2005-07-19
From: vernon

To: greenwood lake
Miles today: 15.2

At 5:30 my watch alarm went off even though I had already been up for a couple hrs,. went to dunkin doughnuts and got some hot chocolate and a couple doughnuts. hazysonic and firefly had been there since 4:0 at 6:30 we met the guy that was going to give us the ride. got back on the trail tired as heck and started hiking up this hill we knew we had coming to us. went up almost 900 ft in less than 1 mile doing it so early was nice, hazy and firefly are married and from indianapolis but are moving to dayton oh cause firefly is going into the air force. we got to the top and walked over to a vista and there was a reallllly nice breeze blowing this early in the morning. started hiking and got to the wawayanda shelter. took everything I had not to lay down and take a nap, tink was there she walked in the rain yesterday and got a lot of new blisters. camel had left a note for people saying that he was going into greenwood tonight to get a hotel room. the trail was horrible through here big huge rocks we had to climb over thankfully it was dry and I didnt slip on any rocks caught up with camel and walked with him to the road and got a hitch with him to the hotel went to a diner and had dinner there was 6 of us in the room it had a full kitchen and a fridge it was a nice room, camels dad payed for the room cause he won a bet with him
Date: 2005-07-20
From: Greenwood Lake

To: arden Valley road
Miles today: 17.5
Weather: scattered clouds

woke up 8:30 and watched tv till 11. got an easy hitch from professors parents who were down visiting his dad said they had just dropped them off 10 mins before they dropped me off so I caught up with them. hiked with them for awhile but I couldnt keep up with them all day cause they were slackpacking. I stopped at wildcat shelter and saw lowjack there. headed out got to fitzgearald falls and took a lunch break with everyone.   had to climb up right beside the falls was very steep. got to another vista where you can see NYC skyline but still hav not been able to see it cause of all the humidity got to a big croping of rocks called the lemon squeezer where you ha ve to go between rocks like a fatman squeeze/ then directly after that we had to climb a vertical rock about 10 ft tall, doesnt sound very hard but it was tough. a lot of people have been walking on the road to shortcut the trail and because the trail is so tough in southern ny headed toward lake tiorati where we planned on swimming and getting some food and drinks from a concession stand there. stopped into fingerboard shelter and met che and peanut they cook really good food kept hiking and got to the lake where the beach and concession stand were closed for the night so we started cooking our dinners we had. this guy named paddy-o pulled up and is like a trail angel, very nice guy had all kinds of drinks and tons of food. even had stove fuel and batteries, ziplocs pretty much almost anything we needed all free. he hiked the trail in 2000 so he does trail magic all the time walked back to the top of the hill where the trail crosses in the dark and we all set up camp ilegally beside the road., my morning would be a lot more exciting.
Date: 2005-07-21
From: Arden Valley Road

To: graymoor Friary
Miles today: 19.5

woke up at 6 and kenw we had to do 20 miles by 4:30 Ill explain that later. When I woke up I looked outside and at my pack and noticed a swarm of bees surrounding my backpack that was only 5 ft from my hammock. last night in the dark I had set up my hammock on top of a ground bees hive I luckily got out of my hammock without getting stung. I put gysies pink rain coat on and navigators pants on and bear had a big peice of netting that covered me completely. I walked up to my pack and grabbed it and threw it 15 ft away from me. then untied one side of my hammock and walked it out to the side luckiily I got all of my gear out of there without getting stung, everone around was watching, started hiking by 7:30 and got to the william brien shelter. then got up black mtn where we could see nyc skyline vaguely in the distance. Up and over west mtn. then up bear mtn where I was out of water and there was suppose to be water here but hasnt been for 4 yrs   I met some people from atlanta and they gave me some water. walked down bear mtn and got to a huge park where there was about 2000 kids running around, The trail actually goes through a zoo here I saw a bobcot, coyote, snakes turtles a river otter and a bear. In front of the bear exhibit, it is at 124 elevation, that is the lowest the AT ever goes. got out of there and walked across the hudson river on the bear mtn bridge. hiked passed took and navigator and we had to climb up this huge hill then back down it, passed the road where I was going to meet my parents when they were coming down this weekend. Ill just call them and tell them to meet me further north. walked .5 off the trail to the graymoor friary where we got dinner and showers, I ate way too much and didnt feel good so I went to bed about 8:30 I usually talk to rachel and my mom very other night at least. I talk to rachel more, I miss her a lot and I feel bad for leaving her for 6 months, and off course I feel bad for my mom too cause I know she misses me a lot.
Date: 2005-07-22
From: graymoor Friary

To: rph shelter
Miles today: 18.9
Weather: clear sky

out of camp by 8 started hiking and got real hungry cause I didnteat much for breakfast, stopped for a couple breaks with everone. I was following camel for the longest time and at one point we was jogging we both decided to stop that nonsense so we stopped and then everyone else caught up to us. we stopped at this road crossing to get water and there was about 50 kids there from a summer camp with all kinds of gear. guzzeled down 40 oz of water and filled my platypus and moved on. got to another road crossing and we all stopped and ate lunch. got to Clarence Fahnstock State park and had to walk about a mile out of our way just to go to a concession stand and we wanted to go swimming in the lake at the beach. so we got down there and we all ordered food, most of us got cheeseburgers and fries, some got ice cream. we all went swimming with like 100's of little kids running around. Everyone but me and mouth either shortcut the trail to the next shelter or walked the road. The walk wasnt really that bad I dont see why soo many people like to walk the road. Got to the shelter and set up my hammock, started raining like 5 mins before we got there so that kinda sucked, but it didnt rain that much. cooked supper and then romer and navigator showed up with 3 12 packs of beer so that made supper better. went to sleep around 10.
Date: 2005-07-23
From: rph shelter

To: west dover road
Miles today: 17.3

woke up at 5:30 to the sound of my alarm and quickly got up and packed all my stuff. tink was the only other up when I left. was out of camp by 6:30 and started hiking quick. The water at RPH shelter was horrible so I tried not to drink too much for the first4 miles till I got to hosner road where somone had left 5 gallons of water so I poured mine out and took some of the good water. went up stormville mtn, in the book it says we only climb 50 ft but on the map you can tell that some how there was a 0 left out cause we climb about 500 ft. got to a couple viewpoints but didnt stop because I was meeting my parents at 2:00 17 miles north so I kept going and ran into a lot of dayhikers and a lot of dogs. caught up to UG, Apple Pie, and Dandylion. Dandylion stayed with me for awhile. stopped to get water and ug caught up. Tink caught up and had to get to the post office by 12 and get her mail drop.so at rte 55 she caught a ride into poughquag and hopefully she got her box. caught up to Troll, Anchor and Oblivious (Husband, wife and 10 yr old son), got to telephone pioneers shelter, and no there is not a telephone there. I met skywalker here he is a 6ft 11 inch tall guy. and his last name is walker so he told me he didnt get it from star wars cause he doesnt like it. only had .7 to walk to the road where my parents were picking me up and got there about 1:15 and they were already there. introduced them to skywalker then took a couple pics and took off. My mom got a new car, A Volkswagon Bug, Its a nice car, It has pretty good pick up. we drove around for hours trying to find a hotel with rooms. finally found one in connecticut so we are not too far away from the trail. went to a mall and got lucky cause there was a outfitter in the mall and then went to Ruby Tuesdays for supper.
Date: 2005-07-24
From: west dover road

To: west dover road
Miles today: 0.0

woke up and ate breakfast at the hotel. started going thru my pack and organizing stuff. went to griendlys for lunch, then mom and I went to a walmart but it was very small so we went to a different store, got food went back to the hotel. I walked over to a hotel across the street and typed some of my journals. then went to see war of the worlds. then back to the other hotel to type the rest of my journals. I typed 6 of them and my mom typed 2, I guess ive just talked in chat rooms a bit more than she has. bed at 12:30
Date: 2005-07-25
From: west dover road

To: ten mile river
Miles today: 12.5
Weather: light rain

woke up at 7 and went down and ate breakfast. took me till about 9 to get all my stuff rdy to go. got new boots, my old ones only had 700 miles on them but fell apart so technica replaced them for free. So this is really only my second pair of boots that I have had. I wore sandels for 100 miles then wore new balance running shoes for 200 miles then wore the pair of boots that fell apart for 700 miles. stopped to get fuel and I used the atm and then got to the trail. put some gatorade, pop. and snacks by the huge oak tree there. The Dover Oak, they say is 350 yrs old/ jigged ,y [aremts gppdbue amd started jolomg/ racje; was having surgery today at 10 and it was to be over at 11:30 so I called about 10 times between 11:20 and 12 but her cell phone was off. took a break on this rock for lunch to try to get some of the weight off my pack. hazy sonic and firefly came past and tahnkd me for the trail magic I had left./ started hiking again and came to the Appalachian trail trainstop. the train actually stopps on the trail to pick people up and its only for the trail. kept hiking and past a hot dog stand in a rest area beside a road/. I didnt stop got to the wiley shelter and took an hour break/ I had passed hazy and firefly so they came in and then I left/ crosssed the conecticut border/ Im so happy to be out of new york. most of the trails were horrible in NY. you could tell that we were in another state cause the trail was just that much better right off the bat. went up and down the ten mile mtn . come down the hill and stopped at the ten mile shelter I didnt know anyone there so I signed the register and left/ walked 200-300 yrds down to where the trail crosses the ten mile rier on a big pedestrian bridge. I went under the bridge and cooked supper. while I was eating, Che and peanut came in and also thanked me for the magic. then hazy and firefly came and soon mul and super j came too. they all ate supper right by the water I was planning on going farther tonight but I really like the company of hazy sonic and firefly . I dont know che and peanut as well but I like them too. so I might just stay here and only do 12 today. turned out I stayed the night and slept in my hammock across the river. listened to hazy play his guitar., read about an hour in my new book. Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer. about some climbers who died on My Everest in 1996