I’ve realized that I have anticipatory anxiety when it comes to traveling, and I reached a point where I was unhealthily stressed out about the logistics of making this whole trip happen. This was exacerbated by a sudden onset of IT band syndrome 4 weeks before I was scheduled to …
AT Journals: Muskrat Creek Shelter to Betty Creek Gap Camp
Total miles: 16.1 including water stops I have never smelled so bad in my life. So I was the second one to leave the shelter camp this morning because I needed to get away from the crowd of people at Muskrat Creek. I have a black eye and was feeling …
AT Journals: Deep Gap Shelter To Muskrat Creek Shelter
Total miles – 16.4 including water stops Well, today did beat all. Left the shelter and headed out into a lovely day. However, I ended coming upon another one of these little memorial medallions, and I can’t take it anymore. Let me explain. There was a murder on the trail …
AT Journals: Blue Mountain Shelter to Deep Gap Shelter
Total miles: 16.4 including water stops Good Lord, today was hard. Like, “beat the stuffing out of a person” hard. I woke up and cleaned the dried blood out of my nose and looked at the ugly yellowish scab that is forming over the scrape. I’m officially hideous. I hope …