[at-l] Year End Survey time.....

[Nina Rogers]

Highlight: Discovering that the shorter trails in the Smokies are just as
nice (and nicer) than the AT through the Smokies. Oh, and hiking the Art
Loeb with that famous author, Jan Liteshoe.

Lowlight: Having to cut our Foothills Trail hike short because Sheltowee was
sick. :(  And not having much time at all for hiking this year. But I did
start running as a less time-intensive substitute and ran my first
half-marathon last month!

Waterfall




On 1/2/07, FTCracker at aol.com <FTCracker at aol.com> wrote:
>
> 2006 was a great hiking year, considering I'm juggling a full-time job and
> books to write. I did all of the short trails in the Everglades and
> Apalachicola
> NF, all but a couple of miles of the new FT Western Connector, and knocked
> off a bunch of trails out in the far western Panhandle to enjoy mountain
> laurel
> (yep, we've got 'em) and pitcher plants in bloom. Visited Cheaha State
> Park in
> Alabama for the first time and day hiked on the Pinhoti. Spent a week on
> Isle
> Royale, which included a solo backpacking trip - reminding me why I prefer
> to
> share the camping experience - and a week in Patagonia. What more can I
> ask
> for, except more time off to hike?
>
> 2006 lowlights were health-related, brought on between my two big trips.
> Thought I had a heart attack, turned out to be my gallbladder. Out it
> came, and I
> feel like a new person!
>
> 2007 plans include more FT sections, more new FL trails, a summer week in
> NC
> with the opportunity to return to the AT around Standing Indian, and a
> week in
> the Lake Country of England this fall. If I can pull the time for the
> Coast
> to Coast I will.  Looking forward to it!
>
> Year beginning cheers to all...
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