morvasaaty/AppalachianTrail-LD-Hikers-Blogs-and-Weather-20-years huggingface dataset:
Date: 2014-08-07
From: the lookout

To: cooper lodge shelter
Miles today: 23.6
Weather: overcast clouds

8/8I walked 24 miles (my furthest so far). Finished 5 of them in an hour and a half (which would be called the ¢five mile challenge¢ according to brew and boone.) met the caretaker named turtle who said he would make me dinner if I made it to his campsite¢¦,¢¦¢¦¢¦¢¦26 miles away (why can¢t they ever be close) so tomorrow game on!
Date: 2014-08-08
From: cooper lodge shelter

To: little rock pond shelter
Miles today: 26.1
Weather: moderate rain

8/98/9The game was out and it was brought, LIKE A CHAMP. Turtle thought I wouldn¢t go 26, but no one ever tells Chris LeBlanc he can¢t do something except Simon Cowell. Goes to show you, sometimes dumb people can be convinced to do dumb things, like do a longest day, the day after they did their longest day. Dumb with a capitol BI have run 2 marathons in my life but today I can say this was the most tiring day of working out I have ever done. In 26 miles (apparently) anything can happen which now I learned. So heres a list of things that happened today in order of least interesting to most interesting.1.        I had a genius Idea2.        The kid didn¢t catch me3.        I went 26 miles4.        My feet hurt5.        My feet hurt6.        My feet hurt7.        I met speedgoat who is going for the record of fasted supported speed hike. The record is 46 days.8.        Speedgoat had time to talk to me for like 10 seconds9.        I got 2 trail magics in one day10.        I enjoyed the 26 mile day more than any of my days thus farAs you read the kid and I ¢broke up¢ that¢s what I say when he didn¢t make the miles we both agreed to make. He is a lot like me when I was his age, and maybe some time alone will make it better. Turtle (the caretaker/evil bastard convinced me to go 26 miles) said when he hiked he had similar situation and when his kid caught back up to him he was better, maybe that¢s what will happen. All good things eventually break up. BEN AFFLECK AND J-LO, THE FAB 4, even Justin and Brittany, if they can¢t make it in this world why should two wily north Carolinians ever even try. The question that lies before us is how does this story end, like destinys child and the Supremes where I Diana ross/Beyonc© walk away ¢a survivor¢ better for the experience but now on my own or does this Fleetwood mac get back together for one last reunion. Right now I am just enjoying my time alone even if it took me 40 days to figure that out. Also during the 26 miles. I CROSSED 500 miles https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MJuyn0WAYNI&channel=themgnt YUPLastly, Little rock pond is the best shelter I have stayed in so far.1.        Ponds are awesome and finally this one is a good one2.        Turtle is the coolest caretaker and person I have met on the trail3.        Fuck you, I only need 2 reasons because I already made a list¢¦¢¦10 things earlier, THAT¢S A LOT, GET OUTTA HERE, you crazy internet
Date: 2014-08-09
From: little rock pond shelter

To: peru peak shelter
Miles today: 7.5
Weather: light rain

The kid caught me but its whatever. Everyone needs to make a decision, a time where you cut your losses and just make a choice, appeasement, there¢s some quote about alligators and appeasement from Winston Churchill that I can¢t remember, but that¢s what I would type here. I always think back to my economics class when my teacher said always make a decision in the now. Thinking about what you got out of something in the past is irrelevant and you must be honest about what is currently happening. So heres the current state of me and the kids relationship.1.        I don¢t like that I am always being followed (it gets annoying)2.        I always got tired of the lack of talking we did (now I know you might say, don¢t you do less talking now and while that is correct I am of the thought that if two people are together, they should talk at least a little)3.        We had transgressed past joking and became bickering bickerers4.        I felt like I was ¢hiking my own hike¢ and he was hiking MY own hike as well. I wanted him to make decisions without me5.        I felt like the advantages he brought were no longer worth the distractions he presented.6.        After 40ish days I felt like I was ready to be on my own again.What does this mean? Means the fat is back alone officially for the first night since the second night. That begs the question, Have I changed? Am I more ready for solitude than I was a mere 40 days ago? I would say no. I do however know that I will still hit nobos today I am in a shelter with about 15 others and I talked to five of them for a good time tonight (hardly alone). What I know is I like hiking with music, it provides me with plenty of company that I need. Then at night I know I will have people to hang with. Like I said maybe one day I will host the super bowl half time show and invite the other members of destiny¢s child out to share the spotlight (but you know because im Beyonc©, the light is eternal inside me) Moral: you gotta let Beyonc© be Beyonc©Tomorrow we are eating McDonalds together, then after that this chickenfat will hang out with whoever he chooses to make suffer
Date: 2014-08-11
From: manchester center VT stealth camp spot

To: stratton pond shelter
Miles today: 10.7
Weather: overcast clouds

8/11Beyonc© continued her march south.The kid is officially behind me, his pack broke, and I was given a chance to gain a lead and made a measly 10 miles. I also reconnected with recent college grad and fellow Eagle Scout groundfloor and might possibly stick with him for a while if he decides he is ok with it.I want to avoid being anyone elses ¢kid¢. If we both happen to go to the same shelter, great. But I don¢t want to be dependent like I felt he was on me towards the end.Right now I am sitting by my first campfire I have helped make since the cousins gave up on a fire in the hundred mile wilderness. It¢s not that I don¢t like fires. They are actually my favorite part of camping. Like half of my memories from boy scouts just involve sitting, doing nothing, and talking crap around a fire. It is just difficult to muster the energy to make a fire but today groundfloor started the fire, then it rained, hard. The fire died however when I stared writing the note I saw that there was smoke and like the phoenix after I gathered sticks it rose from the ashes and warmed my hands, and loins, but mostly hands. #papafire
Date: 2014-08-12
From: stratton pond shelter

To: Goddard shelter
Miles today: 19.3
Weather: light rain

8/12I lost a protein bar, and the world was sad. A drop in the void of sadness, an abandoned child never to be cared for again. Chris had just conquered two miles and now standing on top of Stratton mountain he figured he should conquer the last little bit to the top of the fire tower. Feeling full of himself but empty on food Chris decided to make both sides even and took peanut butter, bread, and a protein bar to the top. A beautiful day topped off with a beautiful bar was all he wanted, but what the universe wanted that particular day was different. There was gusting winds and ferocious clouds abounding in all directions as Chris stared out over the rolling Vermont Mountains. Only the comfort of his food gave our hero the inner strength to make it to the top of the mountain, and especially the thought of that one perfect bar, from with beautiful protein abounded from white plastic innards did Chris finally make it to the top with. Only the previous day this same bar was given as a token of friendship from a dirty M.R. in exchange for a little cellular juice. However today the winds and possibly the entire earth took a more hectic tone. As our hero sat atop the tower, staring out nature called him, not from outside the tower, but within the confines of his own body. As is policy for a gentleman, Chris rushed down, because a gentleman doth not poop off an observation tower, and in his hurried splendor forgot one valuable thing. Twas not the peanut butter, twas not the bread, twas not the clothing, but twas gone and dead. A protein bar lay atop Stratton observation tower, and they say to this day, if you go to the top and listen to the winds howl and trees growl you can still hear old Chrissy cry for the protein bar which was lost on top of a hill.Anyways, I walked more miles after that but who cares REALLY?Lone walking and rain and iPod tomorrow #youknow
Date: 2014-08-13
From: Goddard shelter

To: cogdon shelter
Miles today: 14.4

Sticks and orange lizardsTwo things happened today. (more thing happened today, but im dumb and forgot, so you get two)I saw an orange lizard. A tiny orange lizard just chillin in the trail. I think north Carolina banned awesome neon colored lizards in the 1960s (I¢m a history major, it must be true). Anyways, senior orange and I engaged in a stare off for five minutes. He afraid I was gonna crush him, me thoughtfully engaged in an internal conversation about how fast I would die if I ate him. Because if we learned anything from fifth grade science class is that orange things are poisonous. It may be obvious to you, as it is to me but lizards are small and I am not. After the stare off I walked a measly five steps away from the lizard, three seconds for me, turned to see the lizard a distant orange dot. Is this a revelation no, why did I tell this story. Because I have stupid thoughts every day, and in this instant my thought was ¢I think it would take me a real long time to hike the Appalachian trail if I was a lizard¢Also a stick jumped out at me. Literally I thought it was a snake, then I realized it was a stick. Complete terror then a realization that snakes arnt sticks. But there is no earthy reason that stick should have jumped onto the trail.
Date: 2014-08-14
From: cogdon shelter

To: Mount williams stealth camp site
Miles today: 18.1
Weather: broken clouds

It was a long day, it was a good dayTown is nice but what else is new.New people are nice but what else is new.New states are nice but w.a¢¦.is¢¦¢¦n.wAnways welcome to the massivechuttess. Home of the tomato V.T took ten days but if you want a visual of how I was when I crossed the border¢¦..blame lifeproof. Then imagine the picture I woulda taken, theres a reoccurring theme but in two photos it would have been me covering up the M.A. and flicking off V.T then covering V.T and giving M.A the ol¢ thumbs up, new state, same anticsAte a buffet for lunch, it was amazing, best china buffet of the trail. Had Mexican for dinner and a margarita (cus im a classy guy and I like fruity stuff). After dinner I had to bike back to the trail, got a solid .2 of a mile on the bike before I felt the food trying to work against me. I vomited right there on the street. ¢oh chickenfats at the drinking again¢ ¢oh what will they ever do with that boy¢ they say, no I just ate too much food and my stomach pays when my mouth is happy. Still I am full now despite throwing up the majority of dinner and I am happyMet forager today on my way out of town. I was doing my night hike thing and he had the bold ambition to make it 6 miles in the dark to mount graylock for the sunrise. We didn¢t make it to the highest point in MA for the sunrise, but we settled for 3 miles and mount Williams. It was a good way to end a long day. New people are nice, if they arnt too weird.Bout to set up the rainfly cus its gonna rain.
Date: 2014-08-15
From: Mount williams stealth camp site

To: Thomas Levardis house 
Miles today: 19.5
Weather: overcast clouds

Packrash¢¦. That¢s what Dan levered thinks I have. Said it¢s a common problem and it does make sense. Its right where it rubs. It is only on my back and he said it is the result of sweat buildup from an entire day of walking. Good to know it¢s not poison ivy, and sorry for all the ivy league cursing, but im still kind of in pain.The catchup game: I have been chasing my ex-roomie since the day I started. His name is Knives and he is hiking with his friend, I probably would have started with them but I wanted to go to a music festival and now I am officially within 4 days of him. I will take a zero tomorrow and it will drop back to 5 but hopefully I make Connecticut my bitch, then him. Tonight I am at tom levers house. He is a nice old dude who lets people camp in his yard for free. A perfect 20 miles from goose pond for NOBOS and a perfect 20 miles from graylock for SOBOS. Tomorrow I hope to do 20 to get to my rants and chillax.Now Vermont in review.Vermont was the best state so far on the trailFuck hills, I want chills and chill it was. Rolling hills an occasional bump and the campsites were nice. If I had to complain it would be about the pay campsites, but they were also amazingly maintained and for 5 bucks to stay at 3 it was a good deal. LASTLY everyone complains about VerMUD, I didn¢t notice it, I have a theory people just complain about whatever they want in absence of actual things to complain about. Literally go to the pool I worked at, it was beautiful, but there was always something ¢wrong¢ anyways. Vermont is the hedingham pool of the Appalachian trail. Perfect, and the staff, amazing but in absence of actual things lets complain about the mud said some people. It wasn¢t bad, but hey im not a complainer, make your own decision, just know when you¢re in the woods, and expect some mud.
Date: 2014-08-16
From: Thomas Levardis house 

To: Roadway inn Lee MA
Miles today: 19.0

And now I am updated and offially back on track.I am in Lee MA chillin the night in a hotel room after a 20 mile day that I finished by 330. Now usually that¢s where that story ends but let me tell you children a story, a story I refer to as the asolo story. The asolo story: young Chris was full of optimism, he was going to hike the trail but wondered what to buy. A boot, some shoes, or runners he though, questions in his mind endlessly popped. But whittled and decided until the choices were few, and then he decided what to do. The choice to buy the boots so large, but with red and khaki he looked in charge. The boots did weather and take many storms and on his feet were prominently adorn. But after 200 miles in from the Nobo Fin, their outward armor did not look so prim. A small gash just a centimeter exposed, a week inside which gortex previously clothed. But Chris walked and walked through two more states like that, until this very Monday where his reflexes were not sharp as a cat. He stepped just wrong too wrong infact, that when he lifted his foot the boots wernt intact. The small rip from miles and miles ago, with the aid of a loose root did grow. Four inches infact it was so large, but still he wore them for he was in charge. Till yesterday when once again a root did try to win, but this time his boots were finally done in. Long story short my asolos got caught on a root and ripped, twice, im returning them to REI but if you do have asolo fugatives, just know a common problem with them is the threding tends to split after a little while and in my case, it got caught on a rock and I fell pretty bad twice, and ripped them huge both times.Got trail runners now, because if I am gonna break my shoes, at least they wont weigh me down and keep moisture forever.Now because I didn¢t have my asolos I have walked the last 30 miles in my camp shoes some teva sandals I found when I was in the whites. I am glad I got them because If I didn¢t have them I have no clue how I would have survived these last two days. In a related note, there are lots of people who hike in chacos; It cant really be much of a function thing, because like rocks and sticks. Idk I think its crazy but im just an old amish person who doesn¢t use electricity, what do I know.Finally I don¢t get to chill a lot on wifi, espically now that I don¢t have my phone so let me say this, I love the internet, its amazing don¢t ever leave me internet. However I may leave you, and go to the woods, cus im a terrible person.
Date: 2014-08-18
To: upper goose pond road
Miles today: 4.3
Weather: light rain

Did someone just hit the staples button, because that, was easy. Man slackpacking, is nice, I did 25 miles but I feel as if I only did 15 max and somehow I finished them in about 8 hoursish including breaks. Needless to say doing three miles an hour minimum makes you feel great. Makes you feel like you got shot out of a gun and I can deal with that. Whatever I said yesterday about slackpacking, it makes sense and everyone should do it. But talking about slackpacking is boring, so lets talk about something else.August 18 is a big day for me. For the last five years, I have considered august 18 the final day of the summer. Today would be my final day of summer, however that¢s nowt how it is. That¢s not even close, I am on woods time now. This isn¢t to say the calendar isn¢t important, but it just does not pertain to me directly. Where it does matter for me is everyone else, my parents and family plan around it. For instance if I average 19 miles a day I can make it to harpers ferry for my bros b day. That is just some day super for down the line for me however. While the calendar does not matter to me, what it symbolizes does. I care when it gets cold, I care when the sun goes down before 830, I care when the sun does not serve as my alarm clock.   I just don¢t care that the month is September. So have fun ending your summer, going back to school and just dealing with everything else that happens now. My summer is still very much on, until I notice some change in the seather or sunlight.Also tomato.15 mile slackpack tomorrow.639.1-643.4 roadway in night 2 upper goose pond road
Date: 2014-08-19
To: housatanic river crossing
Miles today: 13.9
Weather: light rain

¢When chickenfat looked down on the emptiness of his plate, he wept for there were no more foods to conquer¢that¢s how I feel. I knew that the trail would put me in the best shape of my life, this is what I did not expect however. I did not expect to become in the best eating shape of my life. Ive eaten a lot in my life, big amounds however I can officially eat much more than ever before. I put it off, thinking maybe it was a fluke earlier in lincold when I ate a whole pizza, but today I repeted the task for the most part (it was 3/4th of an 18 inch pizza). Most would be extremely impressed with my eating habits before the trail but they¢ve gone to putting the needle to their butt now. I mean just the fact that in the last town I ate until I was so full that I vomited, yet I still felt like I had room. My eyes and stomach arnt even on speaking terms anymore, they just see eachother in the halls and put their head down, and right now I am alright with that. Infact I find it pretty fun.so tomorrow is the fabled zero day, I know like a real, real zero. Its crazy and its happeneing but I am extremely excited; I said that when I took a zero it would be a lie in bed all day kind of thing. It wont be but I am going to make a conscious effort to be as chill as possible all day. Because the day after tomorrow, the connetticut challenge!For those who don¢t know, there are lots of ¢challenges¢ throughout the Appalachian trial. The conneticut challenge consists of doing the state of conneticut all in one day. I think that it will be quite a test however the fact that im not slackpacking will make it much easier than it usually is643.4-667.3 housatanic river crossing
Date: 2014-08-20
To:  ma/CT border
Miles today: 15.7

Ive been keeping it on the DL cuz that¢s my stylo, but tomorrow is the conetticut challenge. ¢Why oh why chickenfat would you want to walk all off conneticut in one day, have you considered the fact you could space it out over multiple days?¢ ¢those people. Actually, I hadn¢t considered it thanks for that. But now that I have, I stick by the original plan to hike it all, ok slackpack it all tonight. I remember reading someone say ¢see how far you can hike in a day¢ when I was preparing for this. I ddecided that I would probably do that, sometime, then I realized that that¢s stupid. After that when talking about my accomplishments of the trail, I would have expanded that energy for what, to say ¢yea bro, I totes magotes hiked 50 miles in a day¢ its cool, but that¢s just a number. Now what if I could tell you I walked the entirety of a state? Much cooler, and what if I said the entirety of it, equaled about 50 oh AWESOME, well that¢s why. Yes im slackpacking, yes its less impressive, however later in the trail when I do the 4 state with my pack Ill be glad that I did this one without it, also I will be glad to silence the haters. 50 miles though, I can do about three miles an hour slackpacking, and because of that I estimate I will be done by about 600. Also to add to the multimedia experience, at the start of every hour, I will take a 30 minute video. Because it will be entertaining and cus im a coooool guy.Today, was stressful, but I fell back on my vow to spend the day in bed, because a mans gotta move, where a mans gotta move. I did however do things, firstly I returned the solomons because they hurt. I like most men my age (and by that I mean im quite alone in this regard) have a bunion on my pinkie toe as the result of a poor choice of cleats my freshman year. Its not terrible, but I need to pick shoes that fit me right, and they didn¢t, the put much too much pressure on the pinkie toe joint. Now I have two shoes a pair of wide nike trail runners, and a pair of new balences, which arnt wide but they just don¢t put pressure there the same as the solomons. I am excited to say I am going to go nike tonight and it will be quite a test. I know its not exactly ideal to do big miles with not broken in shoes, but you know what else isn¢t ideal, aids, and cancer, and like body fat in weird places, but if people can get over that stuff than I can get over the whole new shoes on a big day. #blahthismightsuckWell its 644, and I gotta wake in less than 5 hours so wish me luck on getting to sleep, because when 11 comes around im gonna want it.667.3-683.0 ma/CT border
Date: 2014-08-21
From:  ma/CT border

To: ct/ny border
Miles today: 50.7
Weather: scattered clouds

Its like 13 mins of video, but as promised a 30 second video every hourhttp://m.youtube.com/?#/playlist?list=PL1xmy-EHHLYdgm3OlM9BLcBf4DPoG_Lkj
Date: 2014-08-22
From: ct/ny border

To: Telephone Pioneers shelter
Miles today: 10.0
Weather: broken clouds

Lonliness sucks balls. Tok five days more or less to want someone to hang out with. Its because I got to camp at 200. Camp is good but when there is no one to share it with it kinda gets boring. Yes I got 40 pages of the book done, but reading isn¢t my life, it¢s a thing I do when I get bored. AND BOY am I bored. Ths is because I think I officially passed te bubble, yes I may see those outliers but for the most part the ones who are gonna finish in time have passed this puppy, and gotten ready for the slaughter that is maine.            Now all of the Nobos I see are either gonna need to get going or get realistic. I know when I left the kid one of the biggest redeeming factors was the fact that I still had NOBOs in shelters. Now that they are gone its hitting me pretty hard. Sitting around all day was borderline terrible, but at least I¢ll be hiking for the majority of the day for the next little while. Plus I believe I am only 2 days behind Jeremy (knives(, so if I catch up to them I expect that I will stick with them for awhie to avoide the crappy lonliness. Todays recovery hike was 10 miles, it was hard, my body was tired as a whole and moving was the last thing I wanted to do. But you either get busy hiking or get busy dying, and clearly im a hiker for the moment. And now its dark, so im done.
Date: 2014-08-23
From: Telephone Pioneers shelter

To: RPH Shelter/ New Yorkers House
Miles today: 16.9
Weather: overcast clouds

so its good to reconnect with long lost friends. I saw the new Yorkers today. Its actually almost the two month anniversary of starting and its amazing to see how far ive gone and yet how much futher that I have yet to go. Tomorrow we are waking up early and hiking breakneck ridge because they spoke it up hard at the start of the hike¢¦¢¦¢¦.which is two months ago but feels like 2 years ago. I just cant wait to see how I feel in two months and how ready ill be to be done by then as well