I'm excited!! I've got two weeks to hike 200 miles of the Appalachian Trail. Of course the southern sections of the trail are getting further away, so several of those days will be lost to driving. I will also lose a day of A.T. hiking, because I will be attempting my first ultramarathon near the end of this two week vacation. An ultramarathon is a race over the traditional 26.2 miles of a marathon. This particular race is a 50 kilometer or 31 mile race. Wish me luck!
I'll be hiking the A.T. in Virginia and Tennessee. We've got a lot of driving ahead so Lynn and I stopped in New York to break up the trip a little. Just a short hike to warm up my legs. We got off I-84 and drove down the Taconic State Parkway and then up Long Hill Road. Here's the first of thousands of white blazes I would see over the next two weeks.
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Clouds of doom as I cross some powerlines.
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This is my first hike this spring without any snow. It's so much easier walking without snowshoes.
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I crossed a bridge and met a gentleman doing some trail work. He's getting both banks of the stream ready for a new and better bridge that will be built.
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This is the RPH Shelter. I have no idea what it stands for and couldn't find any info on it.
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I met Lynn briefly at Hortontown Road. There isn't really a place to park where the AT crosses the Taconic State Parkway. It would only take a couple minutes to hike to the parkway from here. She drove around as I hiked through the woods, over a bridge . . .
. . . and up a hill to the underpass where Lynn met me.
It was just a little warm up, but it felt great to be out there.
