{"id":3548,"date":"2009-12-03T04:05:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-03T04:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=3548"},"modified":"2025-09-29T22:00:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T22:00:10","slug":"my-solo-overnighter-on-the-appalachian-trail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=3548","title":{"rendered":"My solo overnighter on the Appalachian Trail"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Last Friday and Saturday, as previously mentioned here Off on a 24 hour adventure<\/font><\/a> & Back from my 25 hour solo Appalachian Trail overnighter<\/font><\/a> .  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I made three short videos, as well as took a bunch of photos. Here’s the longest vid – only about a minute and a half. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Note I called the shelter the “Morgan Stanley” shelter, when it’s really the Morgan Stewart Shelter, and also gave the wrong date (slips of the tongue!).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I also did two other short videos – both under a minute – from Mt. Egbert and Mt. Hosner and you can find them here –<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=gwHRFFH5Cvg<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here are some photos from the first day – Friday – with Brigid and Tim dropping me off at the intersection of Rte. 55 and the A.T. at 2 o’clock.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Tim with the drive-by shout …<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Ahhh, hunting season. These signs were posted wherever you could access the Trail. The no hunting zone around the Trail I think is a couple of hundred yards on either side of the Trail …<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Trail covered with leaves for the entire 12 miles I was on it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I’m pretty sure this is a squirrel’s nest, not a birds nest. It’s the only nest I saw the whole time I was out. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Typical parts of this section of the A.T. The white blazes mark the Trail.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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So now it’s 3:50, and I reach the Morgan Stewart Shelter. It’s 3.3 miles from where I got on the Trail from Rte. 55.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Here’s my stuff laid out in the shelter – this picture taken with flash.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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  What the shelter looked like at five o’clock without flash. The little light is my spare flashlight, on “lantern” mode. Spooky!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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So ends my first day. The temperature got down to about 27 degrees according to my little thermometer, and it was WINDY, but I was quite warm in my sleepnig bag and bivvy sack.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Will do another posting with some pictures of the next day’s walk.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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