Appalachian Trail - 2024

I got Noro again! Super frustrating!! Speaking of frustrating, kittatinny ridge in PA and NJ wasn't very great. Southern PA, and even up until my last update really wasn't all to bad. But for 155 miles in eastern PA and western NJ we hit the section of rocks that everyone talks about. Now, were they truly as bad as everyone says? It depends on where you are from. Having done a lot of hiking in NH and ME, a rocky trail is not new to us. I could see though that if someone was from Tennessee that they'd find Kittatinny ridge absolutely horrible.  Going into PA and hearing the horror stories of "rocksylvania," I figured that there would be endless miles of sharp and impossible rocks. In reality, these sections lasted rarely more than a half mile at a time. What made them seem long though was how they destroyed your hiking rythym. Instead of just being able to step, you constantly had to chose your step with a pretty decent deal of caution to avoid either slipping on a

Tomorrow we cross into NJ. Soon, we'll be ticking states off left and right! Our next resupply will be in Harriman NY, 100 miles from where I'm camping now, and 100 miles from there we will be on the verge of getting into Western Massachusetts. I suspect this section of the trail will really fly by.  Everything has been going great. Kristina came down this past weekend and we spent some much needed time together, and all in all, the guys and i are feeling about as good as we can expect to.  Rocksylvania also didn't destroy us like everyone said it would. Were there alot of rocks, oh yah, absolutely. Did they make us want to quit and seem impossible? No, not even remotely close. Maybe it's the fact that we're from NH and have done alot of hiking in the whites and up in Baxter over in Maine, but Pennsylvania wasn't anything harder than either of those two regions. However, the trail was still hard, and a new challenge from the unbelievable easy section of trail th