http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/New-York/Watertown/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from North America , United States , New York , Watertown en-us Fri, 05 Dec 2008 00:43:36 UTC Fri, 05 Dec 2008 00:43:36 UTC Hello everyone. We are getting ready to hit the trail again. Our plan is to drive down to North Carolina where we ended last year park the car and shuttle down to Springer Mountain GA. That is the Southern end of the AT from there we will walk north the 287 miles back to the car. This should take roughly 30 days. We plan to do journal updates same as last year. The photos will however not b http://www.travelblog.org//North-America/United-States/New-York/Watertown/blog-263016.html OD New boots for CC today. We drove to Syracuse and found new boots that are lighter and fit much better than her old ones. I swapped out my heavy boots for much lighter ones also. The average person takes about 2000 paces per mile. 1 extra pound per leg means you lift a ton or more unnecessarly per mile per leg and 10 tons per day lifted. It has also been calculated that one pound one your foo http://www.travelblog.org//North-America/United-States/New-York/Watertown/blog-149820.html OD Well here it is two days before departure. We took all of our resupply boxes to be mailed out to Rochester and dropped them off at our daughters place. She will be responsible for getting them out to us on time. There was a total of 14 boxes. This has probably been one of the hardest logistical problems I have ever worked on. There are so many variables that we don't know I believe what I ha http://www.travelblog.org//North-America/United-States/New-York/Watertown/blog-143256.html OD Prep prep and more prep. So much to do and so little time to get it all done in. Sunday and Monday winter has returned to the North Country with a vengeance. Single digit temps high winds and blowing snow. No training hikes in a few days. We probably should be out there toughing it out but the older smarter me says I will endure a little extra pain on the trail start than risk a fall on http://www.travelblog.org//North-America/United-States/New-York/Watertown/blog-140730.html Update from Patrick aka O.D. Been heavy into Thru Hike prep for the past two weeks. We have done some conditioning hikes with about half trail weight packs. Some on the roads and one on a walking trail in Clayton. We have done quite a bit of food prep with dehydration and vacuum packing. We are taking store bought meals in bags like Lipton Noodles that are flavored and bags removing th http://www.travelblog.org//North-America/United-States/New-York/Watertown/blog-139740.html The best way to open our Travel Blog I think is with a bit of Robert Service poetry. The Land Beyond Have ever you heard of the Land Beyond That dreams at the gates of day Alluring it lies at the skirts of the skies And ever so far away Alluring it calls O ye the yoke that galls And ye of the trail overfond With saddle and pack by paddle and track http://www.travelblog.org//North-America/United-States/New-York/Watertown/blog-136370.html Unser letzter Tag bricht an...Nach einem letzten gemeinsamen Fruehstuck nochmals vielen Dank und viele Hugs an Isolde Steve Christopher Jeremy Markus Jessica Jacob Alex und Eric bringt uns Isolde zum 'Watertown International Airport' ein 'suesser' kleiner Flughafen. Taeglich verkehren hier 6 Flugzeuge die Stimmung ist fast als familiaer zu bezeichnen und die Koffer werden noch per Ha http://www.travelblog.org//North-America/United-States/New-York/Watertown/blog-93656.html