Tony's Hiking Adventure

Category: Hiking

Appalachian Trail

Blue Mountain Shelter

 Mile 50.5 Elevation 3,880 Made it about 13 miles (including hiking back to the trail from the shelter) from Whitley Gap Shelter to Blue Mountain shelter. The

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Appalachian Trail

Whitley Gap Shelter

Mile 38.4 Elevation 3,625 I hiked 6.7 miles plus another 1.2 miles to the shelter.  Thursday is another interesting day. I called Bobby to see

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Appalachian Trail

Best Western, Blairsville, GA

Mile 31.7 Elevation 3,125 What a day. First, my hiking partner, Bobby, had some kind of problem and could not continue. I left him at

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Appalachian Trail

Wolfpen Gap Country Store & Hostel

Wolfpen Gap Country Store Interior Wolfpen Gap Country Store Bunkroom Previous Next Mile 20.8 Elevation 3,198 Feet I learned a valuable lesson this morning.  Our

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Appalachian Trail

Gooch Mountain Shelter

View from Gooch Mountain View from Gooch Mountain View from Gooch Mountain Previous Next Mile 15.8 Elevation 2,789 feet It was 7.7 miles to this

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Hawk Mountain Campsite
Appalachian Trail

Hawk Mountain Campsite

Springer Mountain Plaque Bobby and Me Previous Next Mile 7.4 Elevation 3,220 feet Well, day one is finished and we hiked about 9 miles today. We had

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Appalachian Trail

First Step to the Appalachian Trail

On the move again. Going to Atlanta and then Springer Mountain, which is the southern terminus of the Appalachian Trail. Yep, that’s right. I’m going

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