morvasaaty/AppalachianTrail-LD-Hikers-Blogs-and-Weather-20-years huggingface dataset:
Date: 2005-08-11
From: rutland

To: lookout cabin
Miles today: 17.5

woke up at 7:40 and had to be down there to breakfast around 8 and we all had to go together. Ate eggs and toast again, didnt have to clean up cause we worked so much last night. walked over to the post office to mail the cd home with my pictures on it.   then got my gear and took a bus to the road that the trail is on. only took about 15 mins to hitchhike the 6 mile to the trail. gorden and sue were at the trail head waiting for the troll family startd hiking and walked past a pond and a state park lodge. saw a lot of sobos, met waistdeep, he is a nobo. had a lot of steep ups and downs today I am sooo tired. passd stony brook shelter and headed for the lookout cabin. got there and me some new nobo people. giggles and box of fun were there. they are friends from college, and giggles her laugh is hilarious its so funny. stilts showed up later. this cabin had a observation deck on it. the view was awesome, no cell phone service which is weird cause im on top of a hill. reading then im going to sleep.
Date: 2005-08-12
From: lookout cabin

To: west hartford road
Miles today: 17.9

didnt wake up untill 9 and didnt start hiking untill 10. stilts had hiked out in front of me and I quickly caught up to him. hiked with him untill we got to VT 12 where there was a guy that has a house like 50 yards from the trail and offers people to take showers and get water, and also lets people sleep in his barn. Doc Narley was there and then train and raindrop came in. I offered them some of my bread cause I had too much. gorden and sue showed up and asked us where the trail comes out on the road, gorden never remembers my name, I guess he does see a lot of hikers throughout the day though. Left there and had a terrible straight up climb it really sucked. he was so steep that we could not keep our balance very well. went up and down and up and down all day long, got to one up and tried to see if I had service on my phone, called rachel and left my parents a message. kept hiking and came into thistle hill shelter, cooked supper and then headed off, about 6:30. went 5 mile and caught up with train and raindrop, camped right before the west hartford road. started raining like as soon as I got my hammock set up. rained all night long.
Date: 2005-08-13
From: west hartford road

To: Hanover
Miles today: 10.7
Weather: few clouds

My mom had sent some different gear to me and the post office closed at 12:30 being it was saturday, so I had to get there quick. Train and Raindrop had to get there too. woke up at 5:30 and was hiking about 6:30, hiked alone all day. came up on Gozar which I hadnt seen him for a long time, he was just packing up his gear from where he had camped this morning. chatted with him for a few minutes then kept hiking. came upon a stream and filled up my water bottles. I did not think there would be water for another 8 miles till we got into town and I was right. came into the happy hill shelter, the spring there was dry and Doc Narley had left a whole bunch of food there. I was half tempted to take some but I did not need anymore food. kept hiking and passed visionquest, I had first met her at the rutland hostel a couple days ago. then I came into the town of norwich which is on the other side of the border from Hanover, crossed the conneticut river. there were cops all around and cops in boats dragging the bottem of the river. apparently some kid from a college nearby tried to swim across the river while he was drunk and drowned. It is a tradition I guess that college kids do, kinda like hazing I guess. came up on whitewater and nurse rachet, talked with them then headed to the post office. I was out of vermont, I liked vermont it was a fun state to be in for about 150 miles. Got my package and then went and got something to eat. In the meantime I saw Baltimore Jack, he is kinda a legend on the trail, he knows a lot about the trail cause he thru-hiked like 7 times in a row. he lives in Hanover. talked with him for 30 mins then went to a frat house where they suppousedly let 4 hikers stay in the basement. Vapors had told me this down by the post office. It had been a long time since I had seen vapors. met some people at the frat house then took a showwer. the college here is Dartmouth. I guess its a really smart school cause most the kids in this frat house had over a 4.0 in high school with honors classes. this one girl had a 4.7 gpa after graduation, I didnt think that was possible but I guess it is. watched some of my cousin vinny then came upstairs and am now typing my journals on some guys laptop which was very nice of him to let me use.   its about 9 and im gonnna go to sleep real soon.
Date: 2005-08-14
From: Hanover

To: moose mtn shelter
Miles today: 11.0
Weather: light rain

woke up at 7:30 and went upstairs and got on the computer again and played on there for about an hour then packed all my stuff up and went to breakfast with nurse rachet, whitewater, sranger, skywalker. we ate this awesome buffet with all kinds of seafood. didnt leave town till about 2. waited on nurse rachet and whitewater they had to go to the grocery store. it drizzled rain all day long, skywalker decided to take a zero cause of the rain I think. its been really dry here for a while and there has been some shortages on water. stopped at a creek to get water, 30 mins from the shelter it started to pour. we all got soaked. the worst thing is that when your boots get wet its hard to dry them out. read some in my book then went to bed after a horrible night. Beartracks was in the shelter with us, he is a pretty cool guy doing sections of the trail this year.
Date: 2005-08-15
From: moose mtn shelter

To: hexacuba shelter
Miles today: 17.7
Weather: light rain

woke up around 8 to the sound of rain hitting the old tin roof. finished my book this morning, didnt leave the shelter till 10. the privy (bathroom) at this shelter was unique, it had no walls but had a roof, so there were not bery many bugs and it didnt stink. still raining when I left but cleared up 30 mins later. but then started raining again, walked .3 off the trail to trapper john shelter to get out of the pouring rain. ate some lunch then headed out, stopped by this guys house who lets us fill water bottles from his hose. and if he is home he gives out pop sicles luckily he was home. climbed 2000 ft to smarts mtn, firetower there we could see the white mtns and mtn washington which is the tallest mtn in all of new england and we will be climbing over in around 8 days. very nice view from here.   there is a shelter on top of the mtn which actually has 4 walls and a door. the climb up smart mtn was horrible steep, climbing up rock that was really slick. that shelter and the next one had no water so we stopped at a brook in between them and carried it about 2 mile to the hexacuba shelter. shelter was so nice I just had to sleep in it. wasnt raining and actually cleared up b4 we got up smart mtn. hexacuba shelter was actually shapped like a hexagon. gozar was there, he is so funny. no more book to read so going to bed
Date: 2005-08-16
From: hexacuba shelter

To: Glencliff- hikers welcome hostel
Miles today: 14.7
Weather: broken clouds

left by 8 and had to climb up mtn cube, I guess it kinda looks like a cube on top. no cell service here. passed gozar and beartracks and pretty much hiked alone all day. passed a few dayhikers and stopped at ore hill shelter for a snack. no one caught up to me so I kept going and headed for the hostel. passsed a couple roads and later that night I found out that a older couple had pulled up and did some trail magic there which since I walked so fast I missed it. got to the hostel, picked out my bunk and got my packages from the post office. The P.O. is actually in some guys house. walked to a payphone 50 yrds up the road and made some calls, went to the store later, the guy running the hostel charged us $10 for the night, $2.50 for a shower, $4 for laundry and $2.50 for a ride into town, couldnt sleep stayed up to 12
Date: 2005-08-17
From: Glencliff- hikers welcome hostel

To: gordon pond
Miles today: 12.8

Went to the post office in the morning, called rachel. left with gozar about 9:30 , climbed 2800 ft in about 4 miles, climbed up mt Moosilauke, hiked up with gozar and beartracks. this is our first time above treeline. the only thing aon top is some grass, a old building foundation and a lot of rocks. the weind was blowing about 3035 mph. It was so cold up there. I had all my winter clothes on. temp was about 60 degrees. stayed on top for around 45 mins and ate lunch. came down and got to beaver brook shelter. there was a awesome view from the shelter of the franconia ridge which is beautiful. was here around 3 pm and debated whether to stay or go but decided to go on some more. went down about 2000 ft in 1.5 mile, following this amazing brook that had about 25 waterfalls, I think I took a pic of almost everyone of them. Got to kinsman notch and had to hike directly back up 1000 ft. on the way up I was following gozar and I saw a huge black bear, I immediatly started to panic and told gozar to walk faster and kinda was pushing him forward out of my way. thankfully the bear the bear didnt want us for supper that night. kept following gozar cause he is slower than me and finally it got dark and we had to put on our headlamps to hike further. saw train and raindrop besid where we were camping. set up my hammock beside gozars tent and went to bed. got down to about 45 degrees tonight, so so cold.
Date: 2005-08-18
From: gordon pond

To: franconia ridge trail
Miles today: 15.9

woke up at 6 and was hiking by 7. did about 4 mile by 9 caught back up to whitewater and nurse rachet, climbed 2000 ft to south kinsman mtn. then onto north kinsman.   some very nice views up here. Its so pretty here in the white mtns. came down and went into the lonesome lake hut. The Appalachian Mountain Club has about 8 or 9 huts thru the whites. you can stay there for only $77 a night which includes dinner and breakfast. no showers no fluching toilets and you sleep in bunks with tons of people you dont know. most huts accomodate around 35 people. lakes of the clouds hut holds around 94 people though. each hut uaually lets 2-3 thruhikers stay there as long as you do a little work for stay. sweep floors, set tables, clean, that sort of stuff. then you get to eat the leftovers, since we got to lonesome lake hut so early we got a bowl of soup and some cookies. Had to pay $2 for two bowls of soup and $1for a few cookies. left there and went down into the franconia notch. we had decided to hitchhike to mcdonalds so we go a ride from a guy who said if we get it to go he would take us back to the trail. he wouldnt take gas money but we bought his dog a cheeseburger. reminded me of something my dad would say. I ate 3 double cheeseburgeers, 1 mcchicken, a small fry and two apple pies, I also packed out 1 cheeseburger and mcchicken for breakfast. hiked up 3000 ft in not quite 3 miles. that is very steep. got to a campsite run by the AMC that you have to pay $8 for a tent site. what a joke. we passed it up and headed up onto the ridge to stealth camp. stealth camping is pretty much camping where we are not supose to.   pretty much cause we didnt wanna pay $8 for a tent site. found our site then hiked .3 up to the top of my liberty without packs on and saw the last of the sunset. very pretty up there. could see the town we had just came from. setcamp up with whitewater and nurse rachet and went to sleep. I am sooooo tired. got down to 50 degrees around 11pm. tonight was better than the last night though. it was so cold last night. Today was my dads birthday, happy birthday dad.
Date: 2005-08-19
From: franconia ridge trail

To: Amc Galehead Hut
Miles today: 10.1
Weather: overcast clouds

headed out around 8 and had to hike 1000 ft up to mt lincoln, had service from there and called mom and rachel. It is so eautiful here. It is weird being able to see where you are going to. things seem so close but it takes so long to get there. things look 500 ft away that are actually 2 miles away. Took a lot of breaks today. took another break on top of my Lafayette could see mt Moosilauke and mt Washington from here, headed down and stopped for lunch for 30 mins. climbed over mt Garfield then got to galehead hut. whitewater, nurse rachet and I got work for stay. we got there around 4 and didnt do anything till about 8 there was about 30 people staying here . all paying $77 each and we are staying here free, only doing about 1 hr of work, we had to set the table then sweep floors and wash walls, then clean out the fridge. slept on the floor while the weather outside was terribly cold and windy as heck and rained almost all night.
Date: 2005-08-20
From: Amc Galehead Hut

To: Webster Cliffs
Miles today: 16.2

Ate breakfast around 8, cleaned up then headed out. 0% visibility today, climbed south twin mtn first thing was raining all day. didnt get too wet, got to zealand hut and bought some chili and gingerbread cake. hiked out and got to crawford notch. had a 2000 ft climb in 1.8 mile really steep. It sucked really bad. Got to webster cliffs about dark, set tents up and went to bed, rained all night.
Date: 2005-08-21
From: Webster Cliffs

To: Lakes of the Clouds Hut
Miles today: 9.3
Weather: fog

Rained all night, woke up at 6 found some wet socks and put on my soaking wet boots. hiking by 7, headed to mizpah hut, had 2 big climbs this mrning over, my webster and mt Jackson, we are now in the Presidential mtn range. Got to Mizpah hut and ate some left over pancakes and oatmeal from their breakfast. drank a lot of hot chocolate, pretty much everything in my backpack is soaking wet. all shirts soaked so im just wearing my raincoat and rain pants. we washed some dishes for trade kinda for all the food we ate. the crew working here is so nice. one irl working their was named bri and I then realized how much I like that name, also heard the name jenna the other day and I like that name too. anyways.. she gave me a note to give to her boyfriend at the lakes of the clouds hut we was going there in a few hours. headed there. the AT is above treeline for 13 miles so It is very windy and cold cause it rained the whole day almost. climbed over mt Clinton (not named for Bill Clinton and is actually named Pierce now cause Pres. Pierce is dead) and climbed around Mt Franklin, went around mt Eisenhower too. some of these mtns were not named after presidents but some were. just so happens that there were presidents with the same last name. got to lakes hut and got work for stay. Fig, Just visiting, stats, and mud Pumpkin were there also doing work for stay so there were 7 of us doing it, they always take in people when there is bad weather cause there is no where else for us to go. bought a long sleeve shirt and immediatly put it on. ate around 8. clouds kinda cleared up and got a nice biew for about 20 mins of mt Washington which is 1 mile away and saw a lot of nice other mtns which I did not know what they were. but I got pics. this hut holds 94 people it is huge.
Date: 2005-08-22
From: Lakes of the Clouds Hut

To: Pinkham Notch
Miles today: 14.8
Weather: fog

Today is my 100th day on the trail. Ate breakfast around 8 and swept the bunkhouse out for my workfor stay. climbed mt Washington. went to the summit and had someone take my pic, then went into the visitors center. Mt Washington has some of the worst weather in the world, they have recorded winds up to 231 mph which draws a lot of attention so it is a big tourist attraction. there are 2 gift shops a big museum, all kinds of people here. some people live here all year long watching the weather. when I was up there I could see about 20 ft in front of me, the clouds were so thick. hiked off and went around Mt Jefferson, Mt Adams, and stopped at Madison hut and ate 4 bowls of soup, some bread and like 6 cups of hot chocolate. left and climbed over Mt Madison, raining and 50 mph winds. pack cover flew off but I had it tied on so it was all good. had a long downhill, went from 5400 ft to 2500 ft in 2.5 mile. got to pinkham notch and went in a visitors center. turns out they have a breakfast buffet so we heaed across the road and stealth camped. Most of the stealth camping we did through the white mtns was very illegal. I dont really know what could have happened to us.
Date: 2005-08-23
From: Pinkham Notch

To: Stony brook trail
Miles today: 13.6

Ate the wonderful buffet and gung around there till about 9:30 had to go up 2000 ft in 1.2 mile, steepest climb yet. went over the wildcat peaks, E,D,C,B,and A. it was like a rollarcoaster. Met this guy named van who was almost done hiking all the 4000 ft mtns in New Hampshire. there are 48 of them, he had 1 more left after today. went to carter notch hut for water then headed up 1500 ft in 1.2 mile very steep, awesome views from the top of carter dome mtn. then up to Mt Hight at 4700 ft which we had a breathtaking iew 360 degrees around us. took a video with my camera. then down them up to south carter mtn, down then up to middle carter mtn, down then up to north carter mtn. we figured we climbed around 7000 ft uphill today. a very tiring day. only 14 miles and physically exhausted. went down to imp campsite for water. A horrible .2 off the trail, cooked here. talked with some section hikers there from england and others from Mass. The caretaker (this was another pay campsite) of the shelter told us of a stealth site nearby so we heaed to it. got down to around 45 degrees tonight, very cold but I didnt get cold in my sleeping bag.
Date: 2005-08-24
From: Stony brook trail

To: Gorham, The Barn hostel
Miles today: 7.3
Weather: broken clouds

woke up at 5:30, hiking by 6:30 climbed 800 ft to moriah mtn. went from 4000 ft to 760 ft in 6 miles, nice easy hiking all the way to the road. stopped at the shelter 2 miles from the road. It is beside a creek. really nice setting. Whitewater and Nurse Rachet are done with their hike they have now hiked the whole AT. Nurse is going home but Whitewater is going to go the rest of the way to Katahdin. Got a easy hitch into town, got dropped off at the hostel, took a shower and di laundry. nurse and whitewater are staying in a hotel tonight and they told me I could come but I figured they would want their privacy. went to the outfitter debated whether to buy new shoes or not cause mine are falling apart already and there are no more outfitters north. went to the grocery store for food then wrote in my journal a bit. went out to eat with Whitewater, Nurse Rachet, Caboose, balishag, jude and bear. Ate some awesome lasagna and a Italian sub. back to the hostel and fell asleep while writing in my journal.
Date: 2005-08-25
From: Gorham, The Barn hostel

To: Gorham, The Barn hostel
Miles today: 0.0
Weather: overcast clouds

My first zero in awhile. ate breakfast in a cafe, had pancakes with maple syrup. packed all my stuff up and headed down to the hotel where whitewater and nurse rachet were staying gonna stay in there room tonight to save some money. at the Family Resource Center right now typing this up. been on here for almost 2 hrs and they havnt kicked me off yet. Rachel just called. I have no clue what Im doing tonight but I am going to get off here. Plan on going 6 days without stopping. going to stratton ME. its 110 miles away. tomorrow I will be in ME and I have no clue when I will be able to type on here again. I will be done with ME in about 3 weeks. figure I will be done around the 15th of September.
Date: 2005-08-26
From: Gorham, The Barn hostel

To: Carlo Col Shelter & Campsite
Miles today: 17.0
Weather: clear sky

Nurse rachets bus was leaving at 7:45, said goodbye and went back to the hotel to pack up my stuff to leave. I have so much. found that I could not fit my fleece coat in my backpack. went to dunkin doughnuts for breakfast, then bought a smaller fleece pullover from the outfitter and sent my coat home. got a ride from a lady whos sister hiked the trail last year. she was 65, got on the trail at 10 and quickly became tired, my pack was the heaviest it has ever been. prolly around 40-45 lbs. my pack is only supose to support up to 40 lbs then it becomes uncomfortable, and it is. stopped for lunch with whitewater beside a creek. im back on the cheese, pepporoni, and pizza sauce wrap for lunches now. It was pretty cold before we went into gorham but now its like 90 degrees. slipped on a root from a tree and almost broke my leg as I fell. ive only fallen like 3 times. got to fentian pond shelter, took a break, climbed mt success, last climb in NH. Got a beautiful view of the presidential range. crossed the maine border. fels good to be in maine. dont know why just does.   At the carlo col shelter, cooked liptons, taco rice and added sour cream and chives mashed potatoes. very filling. A section hiker here who just will not shut up. He just keeps talking and talking. wish I had a muzzle for him. Didnt feel like setting up my hammock tonight so I just am going to sleep in the shelter. Dandylion and jude and lighting rod are here along with whitewater. 9:50 and Dandylion is snoring. Can't wait to get home in a few weeks.
Date: 2005-08-27
From: Carlo Col Shelter & Campsite

To: Baldpate Lean-to
Miles today: 16.4
Weather: clear sky

Woke up and that section hiker was gone so that was good. we was out of camp by 8 and at the full goose lean to by 10. The Mahoosuc Notch is said to be the toughest mile of the trail and whitewater and I were only .5 away. It took us 1hr and 15 mins to climb through the notch. the notch is filled with bus, and car size rocks that we had to climb over and under. The rocks were really horrible, I dont really know if it was the toughest mile, I am really glad that it was not raining when we came through. Whitewater fell 3 times I think. I was lucky and never fell. climbed 1600 ft in 1.6 mile, definatly the steepest climb we have ever done so far. stopped at speck pond shelter. A past thru hiker was there with his son, they gave us each a 12" sub, we wolfed them down. Climbed up old speck mtn, then down to grafton notch. Met a guy who works for the AMC and was preparing to camp there for a hike tomorrow. He had some extra food cause some people had not shown up for his hike. so we got some more free food. Climbed 1200 ft to baldpate shelter. Rabbit, Mud-Pumpkin and stats are here. The day was very good Did not get any good views, was overcast all day. Me and whitewater are prolly going to hike together all the way to Katahdin.
Date: 2005-08-28
From: Baldpate Lean-to

To: Andover Guest House
Miles today: 8.0
Weather: light rain

Woke up and out by 7:30. climbed over west, East and little baldpate mtns. Very overcast so had no views. So far Maine has been kicking our butts. It is a very hard trail. Straight ups and downs one after the other. Hardly any flat trail. Got to the Frye Notch lean to and took a break. right when we got up to leave it started to pour down rain. So we took a early lunch break. Had an easy hike up surplus mtn then a very nice gradual downhill to East b hill Rd which goes into Andover. We hadnt really planned on going into town but a nice warm shower sounded too good to pass up. So by 3 pm we was clean and watching tb and watching this hurricane plow its way throught the gulf toward New Orleans. Went and had supper at the pizza shack across the street was very good pizza. watched a movie and went to bed.