Sorry it's taken me so long to post anything. I've been in the woods! I hopefully will update this at least a little more regularly going forward. The AT, if you start in the North (most don't), starts with formindable Mt Katahdin, which rises 4000 feet in elevation in just 4 miles, and that's just a section of it! You then directly enter the "100 mile wilderness" before finally reaching Monson ME, which is where I am now. So this is my first time indoors in 2 weeks. And in a couple days I'll be in the second town, Caratunk ME, where I'll pick up mail and such.
Whew where to begin. Coloradans might be surprised to hear I'm just now starting out, since I left my job there just about exactly a month before actually beginning my journey. I visited family and friends and prepped boxes I'm leaving with those family members to be shipped out to me. Though I was indoors that whole time it was a prep for the constantly-moving life of the AT (In the month of May alone I set foot in 9 states, 10 if you count a layover in Chicago's Ohare Airport). I dragged my poor dad along with me for part of it, and we logged over 1500 miles in the car over just 6 days. But I was itching to start the hike and couldn't wait to get going.
The AT itself has the blessing and curse of not being easily accessible, so it took a few planes, trains, and automobiles over multiple days before I got there. The Maine accent is an interesting one. Not really Canadian and even less like Boston, it's nevertheless geographically between the two, but not exactly phonetically. I found a ride from an outdoorsy guy and actually got into Baxter State Park and the foothills of Katahdin the night of 5/31/11. And then got to the top of Katahdin then next day, which has made counting days easy, since "day 1" was june 1st. And then all the fun began.
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