Kevin's AT Thru Hike

Day 143, Saturday, 8/6 – I woke up at 6:00am this morning, and ate a bagel with peanut butter in the hammock. I finished breakfast, packed up, and met back up with Aqua, Genie, Splitzy, and Birthday. There was a rowdy high school group at the campsite last night. They were in high spirits and…

Day 142, Friday, 8/5 – I woke up at 6:30am this morning. I checked my phone, and saw that it hadn’t charged, even though it was plugged in overnight. This isn’t the first time I’ve come across this issue. I think the charge port is dirty, and is killing the cable. I guess I wasn’t…

Day 141, Thursday, 8/4 – Our campsite was visited by a gray jay at breakfast this morning. The gray jay is notorious for stealing food from campsites and is also known as “camp robber”. Birthday was eating a bagel, and the jay was getting very close to stealing it out of his hand. Genie pretended…

Day 140, Wednesday, 8/3 – Similar to yesterday, I started off my morning with a few cups of coffee. Genie then got breakfast going, and made a scramble with all the leftovers. It was an interesting concoction, and definitely had enough calories to keep me full most of the day. By 9:00am, we had all…

Day 139, Tuesday, 8/2 – I woke up and headed out to the kitchen. Aqua was just waking up as well, so we got some coffee going. Genie and Splitzy got up a short while later and made up some delicious breakfast sandwiches. I spent the majority of the day going through photos, catching up…

Day 138, Monday, 8/1 – I woke up at 3:30am. There was another guest making a huge racket with an emergency blanket. Those things are made of Mylar and are really crinkly. I went back to sleep, and when I woke back up at 5:00am, I learned that everyone else woke up at 3:30am too.…

Day 137, Sunday, 7/31 – I woke up at 4:00am and was hiking at 5:00am. We all had a very difficult day of hiking in front of us. There was also some uncertainty as to where we were going to camp at night. There’s a 12 mile stretch of trail in the alpine zone, which…

Day 136, Saturday, 7/30 – Aqua, Splitzy, Genie, and I started this morning at 7:00am, and hiked up Mount Garfield. We got great views from the summit. We had a direct view of Franconia Ridge, and were happy to see that it was in the clouds. We originally considered hiking Franconia Ridge this morning, but…

Day 135, Friday, 7/29 – I woke up this morning and went to the living room. I found Birthday watching GoodFellas, so I posted up in a sofa chair and caught the end of the movie. We then put in Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers. Broadway cooked up scrambled eggs, hash browns, and…

Day 134, Thursday, 7/28 – I woke up at 3:30am this morning, which was an hour earlier than I needed to start waking up. Also, my headlamp had broken a while back, so I couldn’t start packing up even if I wanted to. By about 4:45am, it was light enough for me to pack up.…