Datto's AT Thru-hiking Tips

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#1

I prepared a compliation of AT thru-hiking tips last Christmas when I had a break and thought some of you might make use of the information. It’s a compilation of emails I wrote last year to help people who were preparing for an AT thru-hike.

Datto’s AT Thru-hiking Tips:
http://friends.backcountry.net/datto/dattotips/DattoTips.20031225.htm

Datto

Datto

#2

Thanks for all the information. I was worried about my clothes but it looks like I am right on with your suggestions. I printed out the list of shelters and trail points of interests and will carry them with me on the trail. Thanks again for going to all the trouble to wrtie this up.

Homer

#3

Datto, I read every word and really enjoyed it. Wish you had written that before 2000! I might have made it to Maine! Ha!

papa john

#4

Hey Datto,
Nice document.
Thanks.

bigfoot

#5

Hey, thanks for the effort it took to compile all that! Very informative and helpful!

-Lauren

Lauren

#6

Datto, Thank you so much for the time spent on this article. I have spent quite a few months online, (mostly here at trailjournals and trailforums) reading guides and hints and tips to through hike the AT and this is probably one of the most informative and helpful if not thee most helpful article yet. If you don’t mind, I may print off the trail etiquette and add it to one of the first shelter registers. Thanks again.

Hope to see you on the trails

~Corey

Corey

#7

Hey Datto – A lot of people have given tips for hiking the AT, but IMO yours are among the absolute best. Thanks for taking the time to make the list.

Bob

#8

Datto, Thanks for the information. It will help greatly as I prepare during these last weeks before stepping off the mountain.

There was a New Hiker who signed in on the AT-L@Backcountry.net and I emailed the tips to her.

I noticed that on Whiteblaze there is a place for Articles. Have you thought about submitting your Tips as an article and giving the broader community assess to good information?

Thanks.

Skylander

Skylander

#9

Datto, Great piece of work! Hope you don’t mind if I make a copy of your tips. Thanks for the effort you put into creating the list. Very useful and a fun read!

Take five