morvasaaty/AppalachianTrail-LD-Hikers-Blogs-and-Weather-20-years huggingface dataset:
Date: 2009-05-29
From: Rock Spring Hut

To: Tom Floyd Wayside
Miles today: 24.2
Weather: light rain

We woke up early and headed into the first campsite we came across and wanted to get these blackberry milkshakes and everyone talks about in the shannindoas, well... this is the second time we've treid to get these shakes and they machines were down again and we couldnt get'em. it toootally sucked! but we had some other good food so taht was cool. it poored during lunch but we were lucky to be at a shelter. we stopped there for a few hrs and played cards, so that was nice to miss the rain... or so we thought. we decided to hike another 10 miles and got caught in a HUUUGE rain storm, i mean it was coming down hard! everything was soaked!i saw more deer today and two more bear too! we actually came out of the shannindoas today and right at teh end i was walking on the trail and there was this huge rock and i was about 10 feet from it and all of a sudden this bear popped his head up from behind it when he heard me, and we both scared teh crap out of each other! i mean, we both jumpd up and he made some snorting noise and then ran away, it was amaazing though to be so clsoe to the bear,soo cool.
Date: 2009-05-30
From: Tom Floyd Wayside

To: Front Royal
Miles today: 3.0
Weather: few clouds

so today we woke up early and hiked into town, well we had to hitch a ride to get there, but it went smoothly. we were planning on just getting some taco bell (which weve been talking about for days) and resupplying adn then hitting the trail again. so we spent some time there and hitched a ride back to the trail and then decided to hitch BACK to town cause they were havign thsi huge town festival where there is music in the streets and beer tents and it was gnarwhals bday at midnight that night. so we got back into town and stayed there and danced it up and met tons of locals and just had a blast for his bday celebration. we went back to some locals house after the bar who were orginally from buffalo too! so that was relaly cool.overall, i would say front royal is one of the best towns ive hit on teh trail so far. it was great! Im so happy we decided to hitch back to town and stay there, even though it was only a 3 mile day, teehee.
Date: 2009-06-01
From: Front Royal

To: Camped VA
Miles today: 16.0

so today was young funs last nigth with us, it was great though cause we found a nice cmaping site and cowboyed it under the stars. it was nice knowiong it wasnt going to rain. it was a nice relaxing walk today. the end of VA though. and at the last 10 milse or so we hit a part that was called 'the roller coaster' and its terrin and just goes up and down 10 times within 13 miles, and the elivation change is pretty big everytime. so after flat VA, the roller coaster was pretty difficult and i was happy to have it over to say the least. teehee. it did feel good though to work my body again up and mountains.
Date: 2009-06-02
From: Camped VA

To: Harpers Ferry, WV
Miles today: 17.0
Weather: clear sky

so today is a big day, we walked into Harpers Ferry, WV, the 'mid piont' town!!! i had my picture taken at the ATC head quarters and im number 195 for thruhikers that came through the half way town. in GA i think i was 200 and something, its crazy!there is tons of history in this town which is really cool too! we got some pizza and went to the bar and the bar was really fun. we've hiked over 1,000 miles and the 500 miles VA state is over!!! we've been in that state for a month and its finally over! crazy! WV is only 5 miles long too, its pretty funnY~
Date: 2009-06-03
From: Harpers Ferry, WV

To: Ed Garvy
Miles today: 7.0

so today we went into Maryland!!! another start down! the misqitoes are horrible too! ugh! i got eaten alive while hiking next to an old canal ditch. we said goodbye to young fun today, he's off trail, only was doing up to harpers ferry. the shetler was really cool that we stayed at today. it was like a treehouse. we stayed up stairs and had to clime into it through a ladder and it was just really cool. it poored rain too during the night, some of the hardest rain ive heard. it was nice to sleep to
Date: 2009-06-04
From: Ed Garvy

To: 25
Miles today: 0.0

were still in maryland and its raining all day again. ugh. i did get some trail magic though, i came across a cooler with soda and apples in it, so that was a great part of the day! and then gnarwhals parents came to visit him and took up out to dinner and for breakfast (the shelter we stayed at was only .2 past a raod, so they could pick us off and stuff real easy).the terrin was really flat so it was easy to hike pretty fast which was nice. im pretty sick of the rain though, my feet are started to get rubbed raw and all rashy cause they've been in wet socks and boots for solong. im hoping to i can dry them out soon
Date: 2009-06-05
From: 25

To: Antietam Shtler
Miles today: 17.5
Weather: moderate rain

it rained again all day of course. but we walked into PA, whoohoo~ another state down! man they are droppin like flies! its pretty cool. since its been raining the trail has been really muddy and wet, but luckily there are lots of rocks around so ive been rock hoppin alot. when i got to the shelter (these shelters have been really tiny latly and old) i took my boots off and since my feet were in wet socks and boots for the past few days, my feet looked dead. i mean, literally like a dead persons feet. they were white and rinkly and yellowie, it was soo gross, but awesome at the same time, ya know. it was nice sleepin at this shelter cause it was right next to a creek which is always soothing to sleep to the water. one poopy thing though... i think im getting sick...
Date: 2009-06-06
From: Antietam Shtler

To: Birch Run, PA
Miles today: 20.8
Weather: light rain

holy crap, the sun was out today!!!! i forgot what that thing looked like! it was pretty damn cold though in the morning, i did not wanna get out of my bag, but once i started hiking i warmed up pretty quick.so i hiked through a state park today and since it was a saturday there were people EVERYWHERE! so i though to myself "hmmm maybe this'll be a good day for some trail magic" so i was walking past this pavilion with a ton of people who all had cokes and food infront of them, andi walked up to some people and asked if they knew if there was a soda machine anywhere, they explained where it was and i acted like i didnt know where that was and my plan worked... they gave me an ice cold coke and a whole plate of food!!! it was awesome~! after a while i guess you learn how to work it for trail magic, teeheeoh and i also got a chocolate chip cookie in the mornig from some day hikers and it might have been the best damn cookie i have ever eatan. the shelter i stopped at for lunch was sooo nice. there is this man who comes up to it every weekend and keeps it real clean and nice. he even puts pots of flowers out around it and its just really really nice. i took a long nap there, very nice.i had cocoa pebbles for dinner and they were amazing!!!!! the chocolate milk after rules!oh and i am not sleeping good at all out here cause of my stupid restless leg syndom (RLS) yes, it does exsist and i have it! its horrible! youd like after hiking 20 plus miles my legs wouldnt be restless!!!! arg
Date: 2009-06-07
From: Birch Run, PA

To: HALF WAY!
Miles today: 17.0

so today was awesome. first of all, i woke up to all my friends singing my happy birthday with a cream pie and candles lit. it was the cutest thing ever!! and they have me a diet coke, flarp (this puddy stuff that makes fanny toot noises) and a high school musical activity book. it was so great.THEN, we hit the half way piont today!!! craziness! there was a half way mid point marker that i got some pics with but its actually 4 miles south of the real half way milage point due to re-routing the trail now and then. i got a picutre are both sites, hehe. and at this park, pine grove furnance, there is a small store where hikers do the 'half gallon challenge' which is tradition when you get to the half way point and its eating a half gallon of ice cream. so we were all pumped abotu it. we all got out half gallons of ice cream, i got chocolate, and sat down and started chippin away at it. it was pretty difficult to tell you the truth, i thought itd be easier for me cause i love ice cream. but i did it, i put it down and was the 2nd to finish at the table and it took me 45 minutes. i wanted to puke after (some people do!) but i kept it down so that was good. i just couldnt hike for like 3 hrs after it! and we lucked out, it didnt rain today and the sun was out so it was nice and hot out, cuase if it were rainy and cold like it was the last few days, eating a half gallon of ice cream wouldve been really hard, i dont think i could of done it. i mean, even on the hot day like today, at about half way through the ice cream i was shivering cold! i cant believe im already half way, but i also cant believe im only half way. its crazy. its just really crazy. the first month out here went by so slowly and then after that time is flying! oh and after i ate the ice cream we all sat around cause we couldnt hike right away, and we were talking and stuff and i could not stop fanny tooting. i mean it was horrible! and im not lacktos intollerant but for some reason that ice cream tour up my insides. it was to the point where gnarwhale was like "i never thought id say this, but im actually embarressed to be sitting next toyou right now" cause there were non hikers everywhere and i was just lettin'em rip. it was pretty funny, by far my best performance yet...
Date: 2009-06-08
From: HALF WAY!

To: Carlisle, PA
Miles today: 0.0

sdo the frist day of the second half of my hike was horrible! i mean, phsyically. i dont know why but it was a really tough day for me. i was the first to leave camp cause in boiling springs i had my bday package waiting for me and i was soooo excited. so i hiked out 12 miles to get there and it was just a bag 12 miles. it was hot and muggy and we just walked through corn fields the entire time, it was boring and just long. i was happy to be in town. the package was huuuuge!! (thank you so much everyone) i had my 2nd pair of boots, new rain jacket, new stove , bug spray, bug net, and lots of foood! it was awesome! oh and roget rabbits nose! (thanks kate, now he can hike the 2nd half with me). it was awesome, i opened the box and it was just full of rapped gifts, i did not expect that at all. people (other hiekrs) were taking pictures of me opening my gifts cause they havn't seen anyone out here 'celebrate' a bday liek that. it was really great.then i went on for another 8 miles to the super 8 which mom and dad paid for a room for me and my freinds to stay at. it was so nice. so a bad hiking day turned out to be amazing in other ways, i had a fantastic bday on the trail. wish i couldve seen my family, but the friends ive made out here and allt he love the family sent me was perfect.
Date: 2009-06-09
From: Carlisle, PA

To: Duncannon, PA
Miles today: 18.2
Weather: few clouds

so we decided to hike into town at the last minute. we stayed at this oooold hotel that every hiker needs to stay at. it was called the Doyle Hotel and its over 100 yrs old and was one of the original anheuser-busch hotels. the rooms were $25 and night and they were just beds. it was soo old and crapy and awesome, it was great. we rolled in at about 730pm and walked into the hotel bar and it was packed full of hikers, which was an awesome atmosphear to come into. we got some food and tall cheep beers and had a blast with everyone. the next morning truckin's parents came to visit and we had lunch and resupplied with them. they were so great. its awesome to meet everyones family out here. you really get to know them better after meeting some of their families, i love it!
Date: 2009-06-10
From: Duncannon, PA

To: Peters Mountain Shelter, PA
Miles today: 11.0
Weather: overcast clouds

hiking out of town was hard to do, but we decided to only go 11 miles two shelters up. this shelter was HUUUUGE!! and good thing too cause there were about 20 hikers (everyone who was at the doyle) who ended up going there. and no one wanted to tent cause it was ganna rain pretty hard that night, which it did.my new boots are working out well, i also have short gaitors which are soo great to keep the pebbles and little sticks out of your boots. before i had them i constintly was having to stop and pick things outa my boots, very annoying. these things were only $10 too, on sale! whoohoo!so when i woke up the next morning i didnt wanna get out of my bag, it was raining and all foggy. everyone else had left, and i thought to myself ill just sleep a little longer we only have 17 miles to go today. well a little while turned into forever. i never got up. i slept all day!!! i ended up zeroing at the shelter. i guess i needed it though, gotta listen to my body.its crazy casue the night before there were 20 hikers and tonight there were only 4 of us!
Date: 2009-06-12
From: Peters Mountain Shelter, PA

To: William Pen Shelter, PA
Miles today: 31.5
Weather: scattered clouds

so i woke up after sleeping a day and a half and didnt head out of the shelter til 11am! and i wanted to catch up to truckin' and everyone else, so it was ganna be a big day, the biggest yet!i hit some trail magic, came across a cooler with coke and snacks, it was really great. i met some people i hadnt met before which was really cool. they're really funny, its tropical thunder, intense and another guy i can never remember his name. but anyways... i hiked with tropical thunder a bit and we talked which helped the miles go by.i stopped at a shelter after the first 17 miles and ate some dinner (mashed potatoe barritos, mmm) and hung out and then i decided to keep going another 14 miles to the next shelter to get closer to everyone ahead of me. everyone thought i was crazy.so the first half of the miles were alright. the sun was still out, but by 9pm i had to get my head lamp out and it started getting pretty rocky. PA is known for its rockiness and we've bene hearing bout this since GA> just sucked that i started hittin them on my longest day and in the dark!so iwas hurtin pretty bad cause i had been walking for so long, so i had to start singing to distract myself from the pain and not to think about every passing minute. i sang lots of rent and disney songs, those are the best to sing. then i made up a song, it went a little like this:"the wonderful sign, whoa-oo, the wonderful sign, whoa-oo" over and over again. it was about the shelter sign that i was dieing to see, cuase once you see that sign you know your at the shelter! i was soo afraid i was ganna miss it cause it was in the dark and i would just keep walking even further, god that wouldve sucked.but i finally came to the shelter and i was soo tired! it was 1130pm and i took some pain pills and went to bed! i walked 31.5 miles in 12.5 hrs! horrible idea! never again!
Date: 2009-06-13
From: William Pen Shelter, PA

To: Eagles Nest, PA
Miles today: 20.3

so i finaly met up with everyone today at the shelter, it was great. suprisenly my feet didnt hurt toooo bad, only in the last 5 miles or so it hurt.i missed truckin' a lot so it was great meetin up with her. shes so wonderful, i dont know what id do without her. there were some great religious comics at this shelter, these things are hilarious.... i wish i could post them up on here..oh and this is pretty funny:i went to use to privy at the shetler and this thing was full, i mean really full. i sat down and did my business and i never heard a plop and i realized i was almost sitting in my own crap! i did what i never thought id be the one to do. i topped the privy off. i mean i topped it off, no one else can sit down and go to the bathroom in that privy again. i was the one of top it off! i always wondered who those people were and today it was me. kinda cool actually...
Date: 2009-06-14
From: Eagles Nest, PA

To: Winser Furnace Shelter, PA
Miles today: 15.0

so i met up with Hi-C in town today! (formily known as guitar dan). it was so great! i missed that guy! and spaceman has had the greats comics in the last few shelters, its rediculous! its like 2 days ahead of us (i really wanna catch him) and he writes/draws these comics in the registers at the shelters that are just brilliantly hilarious! we're kinda all obsessed with them, teeheealso, we met this dude named uncle bob whos really cool. we were all laying in out bags at night and we were telling jokes and stories and stuff, we luaghed so hard it was great! good good times. truckin' and a bunch of other people stayed in town (port clinton) so they'll probly catch up with us tomorrow. oh and i finally have mastered the snot rocket. at first i was horrible at it and the snot would just fly and spray all over my face. butnow, after 1200 miles i have mastered it. its pretty nice actually, espeically casue ive been kinda sick the past week or so, so i have lots of buggies to rocket out youd be proud dad.
Date: 2009-06-15
From: Jailhouse Hostel, PA

To: Allentown Hiking Club Shelter, PA
Miles today: 17.0
Weather: scattered clouds

today was a nice day, the sun was out and everything, craziness!the first shelter i came to for lunch was so strange, it was at someones house. like there was a house and right behind it was the shelter. i guess those people are the shelters care takers and keep up with it and stuff. so i was there for a few hrs and the guy that lived there was hanging out and working on the yard and i dont know, it was crazy cause i was just hanging in this guys yard. itd be an interesting life style in the summer time with people coming and going all the time.spacemans comic, hooooly crap! he mentioned 'toots mcgee" which is another name for me unfortunitly. but it was sooo funny! he called me an explsoive expert and omg it was soo funny. i actually feel honered to be mentioned in his comic. i took a picture of it, so great. later at the shelter that we stayed at, hi-c carries a little guitar and gnarwhale is geat at playing it, so he was singing and playing songs all night, it was awesome! cause i never get music out here not having an i-pod, so it was a real treat. and then later that night at like 930pm truckin' caught up to us so that was awesome!we havn't really had any views latly cause its been so cloudy and rainy. also, we've only been about 1600 feet high for the past few weeks so nothings real high views when we do get'em. the rocks are also starting to get kinda annoying. i mean, they're not horrible, but i keep tripping, like constaintly. every time i take my eyes off the trail i trip! so you just have to keep your head down and always be looking at the ground, kinda gets annoying.
Date: 2009-06-16
From: Winser Furnace Shelter, PA

To: Jailhouse Hostel, PA
Miles today: 18.2

today was a nice day, it looked like it was ganna rain all day but it never did, good thing too casue we hit some serious rocks. i mean serious. it was like rock climing at some points. i couldnt use my hiking poles and just had to use my hands and hold onto trees and rocks, it was nuts! i was actually a little scared at some points, i cant imagin donig this hike if it were raining out and the rocks were all wet and slippery. it would have been really scary! so b/c of the rock climing it slowed us down a bunch but that was alright, we werent doing crazy amounts of miles anyways.we walked by a patch of blueberrys and munched on a bunch of those, it was great! id get a huge hand full and just stuff'em in my mouth and omg they were good!when we got to the shelter only a couple miles from town, we were originally ganna stay there but then it was packed and we still felt like hiking, so we deicded to go into town. it was another mile to the raod and then 1.5 miles of a side trail that lead you into town. so we're taking this side trail and we went the wrong way up this huge mountain! it was soooo rediculously wrong and steap, and all we had to do was take out gnarwhales map 15 minutes earlier, ugh. so we came back down and got back on the right trail and made it into town.we stayed at this free hostel that was in the basement of the towns townhall and it was an old jailhouse or something like that. we had to checkin at the police station and stuff, it was cool, cool but werid.we got some pizza for dinner and then went to a bar and downed a bunch of ice cold pitchers, it was so great. the town is called Palmerton so we got 'palmerized' in palmerton. i guess thats what they say. lol. its funny cause we're up north now and the bars have labbet blue beer and stuff, its wreid seeing that but its was really nice hanging and having some beers with gnarwhale, truckin', hi-c and uncle bob.. great night.
Date: 2009-06-17
From: Jailhouse Hostel, PA

To: camped
Miles today: 14.0

we ended up leaving town pretty late today, but it wasn't so bad cause we only had about 14 miles to hike. but what we didnt know what that we had some serious climbing ahead of us. i mean, put down your hiking poles, use both hands climbing! it was crazy! it was just a huuuge mountain full of huge boulders, my heart was pounding! i was pretty damn scared and had to tell myself it was ok and that it wasnt scary and not to look down. so it took a while to get through those couple of miles cause you had to go so slow, luckily it wasnt raining yet, or it would have been even scarier with wet slippery rocks.as i was walking in a field of grass i suddenly heard this noise and looked over and there was a rattle snake about 3 feet away from me off the trail. it was rattleing its warning sounds at me. i wouldnt have even seen he was there if it hadn't done that. he was big too, pretty cool! i also saw a bear later in the day, so it was a nice wildlife day