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My letter about the half gallon challenge (relevant log) was featured on NPR's Weekend Edition Sunday!

  The top 80 photos can be viewed on the map below
If the text goes beyond the open window, simply close it and open it again, and it should readjust. I'll fix this if I learn how.

In addition, all images are up and updated.

Links to specific states' pages can be found below, in addition, we offer best-of pages, flora and fauna, captions and many different sizes of imagery, as well as a clickable map and more. More info on the Images page.

Through no fault of my own, The whole Trail on Google Maps. Click on "Lands2" to see it.

If you want to see the whole trail in Google Earth (and trust me, you do), download this KML file to your hard drive, open Google Earth, and open the file from Google Earth. The KML file containing all trail shelters can be downloaded here.

Also posted is a Glossary of terms used on this site.

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• Days: 136 (June 4 to October 17).
• Number of Northbounders who started before me: 1150, 309 reporting thru-hikes.
• Number of NoBo 2000 milers who started after me: 0. (That I know of.)
• 2000 milers in history: 9483 (more data from the ATC)
• Average Miles per day: 16.1
• Number of "zero days": 17
• Average miles per hiking day: 18.3
• Days over 20 miles: 49
• Days over 26.2 miles (Marathons): 15 (!)
• Days over 30 miles: 4
• Longest day: 32.9 miles
• Shortest day: 2.3 miles
• Total miles: 2174.6

Visualize these stats with Charts!

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Trail name: ZIPLOCH. Pronounced like the plastic bag. Why? See the pertinent log.

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Interesting AT links:
- WOW! Someone has uploaded the Trail on to a Google Maps API and then overlaid it on Topo maps. If I can figure out Google Maps (read: learn programming) I'd love to do the same thing. For now, go to Backcountry Maps and click on the furthest right option (Lands2) or Postholer which is easier to access but has a smaller map window. Very nice.
- A Google Map of AT shelters. Good overview of the trail's route.
- AT GIS Data. If anyone wants to make me a nice GIS map, or get this data in to a Google Map (use the .e00 file maybe) email me!
- AT on Wikipedia.
- A scan of the official AT Map, similar to the one to the left.
- The AT Conservancy.
- A simple geologic map of the AT. More on the Appalachians' geology from Wikipedia.

People I met:
- Laces (in Connecticut)
- Mash, and how he got his name.
- Moon Beam (in Maine)
- Pockets and Tonka (in New Hampshire and Maine)
- Whimsey (in Virginia)
- Possum (in Maine)
- And many more for whom I don't have links right now...

The headline banners on this page use the font used on signs in National Parks, Forests, and Wilderness areas. I took several pictures of the lettering and created an imaged-based "font" using Photoshop. The page has been tested and will display appropriately in Firefox and Safari. It has not been, and will not be, tested for Internet Explorer.

This and all maps on this site are my creation, and is tilted about 44° counterclockwise so as to fit the whole trail in a vertical fashion (it would otherwise stretch diagonally across the whole page). A "properly oriented" north-up map can be found here, with a very large version here. Unless otherwise noted, data is from the ATC, ESRI and the US Census Bureau.

The image at the top of this page is of the last mile of the trail along the Tableland, looking southwest from the summit of Katahdin.

© 2006, Ari Ofsevit.

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