morvasaaty/AppalachianTrail-LD-Hikers-Blogs-and-Weather-20-years huggingface dataset:
Date: 2005-07-26
From: ten mile river

To: stewart hollow brook shelter
Miles today: 15.7
Weather: overcast clouds

slept in today till about 8. ate breakfast and started hiking up the trail we went up this big hill and saw a trail maintainer there. chatted with him for a little bit. took a break soon, che, peanut, and super j came in and joined me. only had 5 miles to go till we got to a road crossing to go into kent. stopped at the shelter before the shelter and there was a older women there. she was just out for a few weeks, she told me that kent has a really nice thrift shop and how she bought a bra and a shirt for $1.50 I was glad she didnt show them to me.oad and started walking into town. mainly just to use the phone to call rachel, and mom. I saw crazylegs, low bridge, and professor they were coming out of town as i was going in. got into town and went to the outfitter, didnt buy anything just looked around. called mom and rachel from the payphone at the gas station. rachel had just got the glowers I had sent to her house. she is in a lot of pain, went to a pizza place by myself and had dinner then hiked out with bear to the next shelter. didnt leave town till 5:30. up and down a couple big hills, passed a really cool place with some really nice rock climbing. called st johns ledges,. I wanted to climb some but bear reminded me that we still had 3 miles to go and it was already starting to get dark.   walked along the housatonic river for 2 miles and got to the shelter which was not even 50 yards from the river. 2 soboers in the shelter tonight. slept great in my hammock. found out that bear is on trail journals under indy andy, met hareball today she is on trail journals too,.
Date: 2005-07-27
From: stewart hollow brook shelter

To: sharon mtn campsite
Miles today: 12.4
Weather: few clouds

day 74slept in till 7:30 and was out of camp by 8:30 met another sobo with a dog. very pretty golden retiever. dog had his own pack and he carried about 8 lbs of food. crazylegs bridge ug and professor had camped 1/2 mile north of the shelter so I saw them as I passsed them. came upon hareball she has some really nice pocket computer that she can send emails on. come to a nice brook and soaked my feet and ate lunch. temperature about 95 today with a heat index of 110 with humidity. had to take breaks like every 30-45 mins. drank 2 gallons of water easy today and I know I could have drank more. caught up with hazysonic and firefly and hiked with them for most of the day. firefly only has about 14 more days untill she becomes active in the air force. a lot of brooks today, got to the pine swamp brook lean to at about 3:30 bear was there asleep. he left around 4. hazy, firefly and I took a nap for about an hour. it rained for 2 hrs while we was at this shelter. a section hiker named caveman came in and we was talking with him for awhile. then a sobo came in his name was blaze. saw 11 sobos (southbounders) todaythey are starting to come in herds. left that shelter about 7 and hiked 2.5 mile to the campsite. got set up right before dark. read a little bit then went to bed.
Date: 2005-07-28
From: sharon mtn campsite

To: plateau campsite
Miles today: 14.2

thought I was going to get a early start this morning but I didnt. woke up at 8 and was out of camp by 9. saw apple pie this morning and a couple more sobo. hiked with hazy and firefly all morning we got to a hrdro electric plant where on the back of the maintaiance building they have a shower head. its on the outside of the wall right beside a road so we had to leave shorts on still felt good. ate lunch there on the lawn and dried off in the sun.. started walking again and crossed the housatonic riverf again. then got to a waterfall known as great falls. really cool waterfall with a nice swimming area. there are cliffs about 35 ft high that you use to be able to jump off of but theyu released all the water in the dam and now the water is only about 4 ft deep where you use to jump so you cant do that anymore. I didnt go swimming but there was a lot of people there. I didnt feel like getting wet again just after drying from the shower. hiked up prospect mtn and had some nice views on the way down saw this big rock called giants thumb. hazy climbed it.   about 10- of us hiked into salisbury. I got more food. called mom and rachel. updated my journals at the library. just sat around for about an hour. I got a 1/2 gallon of chocolate milk and a reuben sandwhich. then started hiking out of town. got water at a graveyard. hiked another 1/2 mile to the plateau campsite. got there about 8:30 already dark so we had to set up camp in the dark again/. ate some of songlines dinner bed by 10
Date: 2005-07-29
From: plateau campsite

To: kellog bridge over housatonic
Miles today: 22.1

woke up at 6 out of camp by 7 campsite was at 700 ft and we was going up to 2300 then down to 1300 then back up to 2600. I wanted to get out early so I did. songline and I were the only ones up. he took off 10 mins b4 I did and I didnt carch him till we got to the top of the first climb. bears mtn at 2350 ft is the highest point in conecticut. snapped a couple pics then took off down the hill., got to the bottem of the hill and was in sages ravine which is where we crossed into massachusetts. went up race mtn then up mt everett got up mt everett by 12 noon.   I had gone 12 miles in 5 hrs which is pretty good considering the terrain. came down everett and got to the hemlocks shelter bear and songline were thereso I ate lunch then caught up on my journals there it is such a pretty day it is not overly hot which is nice actually while im sitting here i put my longsleeve shirt on cause I kept getting cold chills. took a 2 hr break at that shelter. started hiking and passed hareball. she was sending emails again/ passed a road where there was a spring /1 away I didnt really need water and was kinda hoping on a creek 4 miles ahead got to the cr5eek and it was not pretty so I didnt drink any of that water. got to a big road crossing andd there was a home and garden place there so I went in there and got a gatorade, klondike bar, some fresh garlic, tomatoes, green beans, greenpeppers. filled up my water and headed out,. walked 1/2 mile and stopped to cook supper. mixed all the beggies in with a jalepeno noodle lipton. it was soo good. by far my best meal I have cooked on the trail. while i was eating crazylegs bridge and professor walked by, they were only going 1/2 mile up and camping/. finished my supper and started hiking planned on doing about 4 more but I got to where they were camping and I gave in so I camped there with them. just talked with them for an hour, in my hammock at 8 to write this and then going to read. tried to call rachel today, got my cell out but the battery was dead, I charged it up last night when we was at the grocery but I think i forgot to turn it off and the battery wore out in the cold last night.
Date: 2005-07-30
From: kellog bridge over housatonic

To: upper goose pond cabin
Miles today: 26.6
Weather: clear sky

uhgg what was I thinking doing 28 miles today..................out of camp by 7:30 I was trying to be quiet but as soon as crazylegs woke up he woke everone else up so I could have been out earlier but ohh well. apple pie left 15 mins before me. caught her in 30 mins her feet hurt from new shoes just like mine. climbed 1000ft and stopped at the tom leonard shelter for water. had to walk .1 down a really steep hill for the water. crossed a road and met a guy who had hiked 3 yrs ago. talked for a min and he gave me some water. stopped at benedict pond for lunch. bagels with cream cheese mmmm!! the other night in salisbury I had found wasabi peas. they are awesome I just cant explain how good they are. got to another shelter and stopped to get water./ but there wasnt any. didnt really need water but it was only 200 ft off the trail so I figured I might as well go. kept going and got to where another shelter was .3 off the trail, decided not to go to the shelter but I took the wrong trail so I went there anyways. figured since I had gone .3 out of my way I might as well get water but the stream where you get water was bone dry. so I had just wasteed 20 mins of my time. at this time I had decided to push the 27 miles to the cabin cause I had deard so many great things about this place. had a pretty big climb towards the end of the day. halfway up met a sobo that asked me some questions and I asked him some. got water at a spring on the mtn. then got to the cabin. the "pond" is the size of buckeye lake but its still called a pond, saw bear and songline there. they said the pond was very nice swimming so I went down and went swimming. the water was very clear reminded me a lot of lake tahoe. my roomate jason was out in california this week for a family reunion at lake tahoe, he said he had a wonderful time and got a huge blister on his foot from hiking. cooked a rice lipton with mashed potatoes and put some chedder cheese in it. got to sleep on a bunk upstairs which was nice.
Date: 2005-07-31
From: upper goose pond cabin

To: dalton 
Miles today: 20.6
Weather: overcast clouds

woke up at 6 and went downstairs, where the caretaker of the cabin was already cooking pancakes and had coffee ready for us. there were about 20 hikers there , he could make 6 pancakes at a time, I bet he made over 150 pancakes and we drank about 7 pots of coffee. some sobo guys told us about this guy named rob in dalton who opens up his house for us and lets us do just about anything we want for free. he doesnt ask for donations. I ate about 15 pancakes and 3 cups of coffee and helped clean up, got out of there about 8:45. I wanted to be one of the first people to get into dalton, cause rob only takes about 12 people a night I hiked 21 miles in 7 hrs. early in the morning we crossed a few big roads. caught up to bear and hiked with him the rest of the day., stopped at october mtn shelter for lunch. crossed a road where there is a lady that lives .1 down the road that offers water for us and cookes sometimes. at this point we knew of about 10 people heading towards town. so me and bear high tailed it to town, songline caught us which is cool cause I like songline. we had like 9 miles to go and we did it in under 3 hours. got into town and got to where rob works and we asked for him and this kid says hold on a sec. he called rob and rob said he only had room for 2 of us. well we played a game and songline lost so if he was only going to take 2 of us. rob came and said he would take all of us. got to his house and took a shower. the shower had the pressure of a firehose it felt soooo good. he did our laundry for us!! yeah read that last line again. me and songline went up and bought some drinks for later and hung out for awhile, went to a italian place for diner and then went to friendlys for desert. back to the house and called rachel jason and mom which took a while cause I hadnt talked to any of em for a while. plan on hiking out in the morning, although a zero at this guys house realllllly sounds nice,.
Date: 2005-08-01
From: dalton 

To: dalton
Miles today: 0.0
Weather: haze

ok let me just start out by saying that I am in Rutland right now and the computer will shut off after 1hr so I dont know how much I will get done. Decided to take a zero and get caught up on my journals. went to the mall shopping for some birthdays coming up, went to a sub shop for supper. they have a 24inch sub and if you get a lot of extras like I did it is bigger than subways I only ot the 10 inch and and it filled me up. watched last of the mogicans again tonight. they say that you can see some white blazes in that movie cause it was filmed in north carolina. white blazes are the 2 inch by 6 inch paint on the trees that mark the appalachian trail.
Date: 2005-08-02
From: dalton

To: cheshire
Miles today: 9.3

woke up and walked to the general store for breakfast. milk and dougnuts yummmmmmmmm!! gonna hike out of town today went to the post office around 9 and out of town by 10   hiked alone and was glad to be bak on the trail,. came upon troll anchor and oblivious stopped there for lunch they left then mouth passed me. I remembered that I had left my cell phone charger at robs house so I assked mouth to have rob bring it when he came to pick mouth up in cheshire.   got into town and saw gordeon and sue. they are a couple of trail angels. they are brother and sister sue has over 20,000 trail miles under her belt. she is diabetic and just 5 yrs ago she lost her left leg from the knee down they live in their van while they arefollowing people on the trail, two years they followed people on the continental divide trail, and 2 yrs on the pacific crest trail, this yr they are helping people on the AT. just so happens they are helping troll and his familt right now, so at most road crossings they are there and they give us gatorade. they are both huge michigan fans and I saw them a couple timre when I use to wear my OSU shorts they still bive me crap about that even though I told them that I dont really like osu, so mouth had rob pick him up and rob was going to drop him off in the morning so I figured what the heck ill go with him and take another shower and lounge around all night, we stopped at ems on the way home. ( eastern mountain sports) its a big chain outfitter only on the east coast. mouth has worn out his 2nd pair of shoesnow , got back to robs and hazy sonic and firefly and crazylegs were there so we took them in. we all got showers then went to the country buffet untill they kicked us out. walked around barnes and noble then rob picked us up and we went to his house. fell asleep by 9:30 got a big mtn to climb tommorrow.
Date: 2005-08-03
From: cheshire

To: sherman brook campsite
Miles today: 15.6
Weather: clear sky

woke up and ate food out of my food bag instead of having doughnuts. rob always goes to the gas station he manages about 6 and comes back to his house about 8:30 he was going to take me to cheshire around 9. camel, romer, and sunshine were slackpacking todayso they came too. on the way out of town we picked up lighting and tink. tink found out that she had left her tent poles about 10 miles back so rob was going to take her there after he dropped all of us off. got to cheshire and started hiking up mt greylock goind up 2600 ft in elevation over 7 miles not too hard but it was all up just not very steep in most areas. that still gets tiring after awhile got up fteylock and its a big tourist attraction cause there is a lodge and a huge war memorial up there which I forgot to read, sorry dad.   greylock is also the highest point in mass. didnt see any thruhikers till I was almost done with my hike for the day. came down grelock and saw a lot of dayhikers. saw two guys coming up the hill, the one guy lookied like he had never been backpacking b4 but he was a big runner so he was in really good shape. anyways he was carrying 2 gallons of water with him. thats 16 lbs of water, crazy. got to a road crossing and saw gorden and sue there , also the troll family were there. gorden drove me to the grocery store .2 away and I got more food. there was a couple sitting outside the store. they were hikers so I talked to them. they were on their honeymoon for like 6 days of backpacking they were from texas walked back to the tyrail and walked 2 miles up a hill and went to the campsite where the trolls were. set up my hammock, cooked supper. nomad came walking in later he had been at the hospital he had an infection on his foot and got some antibiotics for it. he was told not to hike for 2 days if it didnt get better he would be off the trail, luckily I got cell phone service so I called rob and asked if he could come pick him up in the morning he said sure, then went to bed
Date: 2005-08-04
From: sherman brook campsite

To: melville nauheim shelter
Miles today: 18.4
Weather: clear sky

out of camp by 8 walked 2.5 mile and crossed the vermont border. sat there for 45 mins and read the register and had a snack. climbed from 2000 to 3000 and took a break with a sobo named runningwater. he was also having foot problems. got to the congdon shelter and took yet another break with chubsterwho is a nobo. like 3 other sobo there didnt know their names though. stayed there for like 2 hrs trolls came in. left and hiked 4.3 miles to rte 9 in 1 hr and 10 mins.   got a gatorade from gorden and sue. trolls showed up 1hr after I did and we had left at the same time. bennigton was 5 miles down the road so I decided to hitch in and go to subway got a easy hitch and they dropped me off at subway which was nice. father and son, the son is going to school in chicago this next year. ate my footlong sub with chips and cherry coke and started hitching back to the trail gorden and sue picked me up with the trolls in the van too. was a tight squeeze but made it work. im glad they picked me up cause it was starting to get dark started hiking 1.5 miles to the shelter in the dark straight up this hill, heard some weird noices in the woods so I hiked faster. sweat was pouring off me . got to the shelter about 9:30 all there was asleep set up my hammock and started a gfire in the firepit in my own little campsite cause someone had left some trash there.
Date: 2005-08-05
From: melville nauheim shelter

To: story spring shelter
Miles today: 17.4
Weather: broken clouds

started hiking by 8 planned on doing about a 20 mile day but that didnt happen hiked alone all day. passed 49er early in the morning there were a couple small lookouts in the morning. got to the goddard shelter which was almost to the top of flastenbury mtn, english bob was there. it was very chilly up there. i put my longsleeve shirt on and my sockhat, sat there for 30 mins and had a snack got to the top of the mtn and climbed the firetower. very cloudy and windy. passed two more shelters met patch which he had just got back on the trail from having lyme disease. got to story spring set up my hammock talked with romer. she had to get to rutland by tuesday morning.
Date: 2005-08-06
From: story spring shelter

To: spruce peak shelter
Miles today: 18.3
Weather: overcast clouds

up and out by 7 had to climb stratton mtn this morning. got to a road crossing with trail magic, me and romer found two beers in it. so 8:30 am we drank a beer for breakfast. climbed the mtn. firetower on top gave us excellent views of at least prolly 70 miles in 360 degrees around us. talked with a forest service guy and a maintainerr who were there. came down the mtn to stratton pond shelter and called rachel and mom. then went swimming talked with got and jax and the caretaker of this area for an hour then headed toward manchester. went about 7 miles and there was an awesome overlook of manchester. then hiked another mile to the shelter. big family there just out for a night of camping. jax and I got free hotdogs, was an overlook right by my hamock so we saw the sunset
Date: 2005-08-07
From: spruce peak shelter

To: big branch shelter
Miles today: 19.3
Weather: clear sky

woke up at 5:30 hiked 2 mile to the road. gorden and sue took me into town. got grocerys charged my cell phone and made some phone calls. didnt get out of town and back to the trail till about 12. met proteus and buttah and then I saw the mad chapper, which I hadnt seen him since southern virginia talked with him for 30 mins then headed up mt bromley stopped at bromley shelter for a break got to the top and took a break. bromley is a big ski area just like most of the mtns around here. there was a observation deck on top of there. left there and went down then right back up my styles and mt peru. saw a lot of dayhikers and long trail people passed 3 shelter within like 3 miles and decided to go to the next one which was 1 1/2 mile downhill the whole way. got there about 8:30 cooked dinner as fast as i could cause people in the shelter were going to sleep. guy in the shelter said he snaores real loud so I put my earplugs in and went to sleep... slept horrrrrrible
Date: 2005-08-08
From: big branch shelter

To: minerva hinchey shelter
Miles today: 13.2
Weather: clear sky

today is rachels birthday, happy b-day girl. she is a big 20. I didnt not wake up untill 9   hiked 3 miles to little rock pond went swimming and there were some people cliff jumping off of 10ft and 20 ft cliffs. looked fun but I didnt do it. stayed there for about 2 hr and then headed up white rock mtn. there is a overlook but I didnt stop wish I would have but its too late for that now. there were a lot of cairns made out of white rocks. it was really nice. went over bear mtn   it was a very long climb did a short day so I could go to a diner in the morning for breakfast.   fot to the shelter and set up my hammock around 5 long trail people . very nice people the same 5 met in 02 and and hiked the AT together they had too much food so theyu gave me like 7 dinners. which was nice cause they were all dehydrated stuff. so it was not very heavy. slept horrible tonight too too hot/.
Date: 2005-08-09
From: minerva hinchey shelter

To: rutland
Miles today: 20.1

woke up at 5:30 and walked 2.7 miles to a road crossing then walked 1/3 mile down to the whistlestop cage. ate 3 huge pancakes a huge piece of ham and some homefries with gravy on them. ate way too much and had to climb a couple steep hills right after the road. I felt like crap. started feeling better after a few hoursand drank a couple sodas from two diffferent trail magics. climbed upkillington peak which Is about 4200 ft, me and leviathon pretty much ran up it. we sat up on the summit and ate lunch and called rachel and left my parents a voicemail. walked down the hill and went to the oldest trailside atraction type thing, its an old irish pub. there were some huge rocks on the property where the building is so a couple of the rocks they are actually part of the wall and floor. its really neat. was there with leviathon, had a couple drinks then hitched into ruttland. got a hitch from a really cool lady , she was on her way to a softball game This hostel we were staying in is run by The Twelve Tribes. It is a christian community, where like 50-60 people live in the 3 houses they own and work in the bakery and cafe that were below and beside the hostel. they are also opening an outfitter beside the cafe. they own 2 buildings downtown and they are 3 stories high. they do not make money for themselves, it is just put into the commuity to buy stuff, if they want to buy something like clothes, they kinda have to put in a order for it and wait to see if they get accepted or not. it really is neat how they live but I don't think I wanna do it. they dont watch tv they told me and dont really follow the news very much. In bed by 11
Date: 2005-08-10
From: rutland

To: rutland
Miles today: 0.0

yup another zero day. up by 7:30, we cooked our own breakfast in the cafe. egg and toast, had OJ, coffee, and fruit smoothies too. cleaned dishes, swept floors, washed windows. wrote in my journal while doing laundry at the laundromat. then went to the library and got some entries done then got kicked off the computer. Ate lunch at the cafe, got one of my camera memory cards put onto a cd and mailed it home. cooked pizza in the bakery then was cleaning the bakery till 11pm. read some in mybook then went to bed.