Friends, Family, Coworkers, Fellow Hikers, Casual Lurkers, Others:
Five weeks from now, on Sunday, 21 May, I plan to stand at the trailhead of the Springer Mountain approach trail in Amicalola State Park and awkwardly ask someone standing nearby to take a photo of me since I think selfies make for really poor photography. Be sure to watch for that photo in a future post to this journal, pending an AT&T data signal can penetrate that deeply into the wilds of North Georgia.
I am going to make this my official trek northward along the Appalachian Trail. I am not going to “through-hike” the trail all at once. I have other responsibilities that prevent me from going off-line for six consecutive unemployed months; but I will attempt to take a couple of weeks each year to make north-bound progress. To those hikers that accomplish a straight-through, non-stop, six month nature walk, I ask “who mows your yard?”
So with that as a very feeble and uninspired first entry into the journal, I continue my preparations and will report back here with updates as the time to make the trip draws nearer.
Professor