Well as of now it is set in PLAYDOUGH not stone but it looks like I will try to do all of GA to NC! for my first section of the AT. I will start the week after Christmas and have 6 days…any ideas on weather forcast…Is this too much for a winter hike?
Joel
Is it posible to spend every night in shelter? Does anybody know the distance between all of them in GA?
Joel
It is doable. Bring your Long Johns. You have to keep moving to do it also to keep warm. Do Springer to Gooch Gap shelter than to Neels Gap Hostel then to Blue Mountain shelter then to Tray mountain shelter then to Plum orchard shelter then to NC and back to Dicks Creek Gap. Check the Data Book but if I remember that should work.
Go for it. Its awesome out there especially in the snow.
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Subman
Winter hiking only last a few days. people don’t want to sit around some shelter in the dark, cold, at 5:00 pm till about 7:00 am in the dark. When they could be in the light.
So it’s not the snow or the cold. Its the darkness coming at 3:30 and pitch black at 5:00. No doubt you picked the shortest days of the year. Not that its a bad thing or anything .Just is.
Darkness.
hikerdude
It can be in the 60’s or near blizzard conditions or cold rain. Daylight hours will be short. You won’t know the forecast of six days in advance, even on the day you leave. Weather changes rapidly. I would bring your cold weather gear and expect to hike thru well below freezing temps with snow. That way, you’ll be safe if you run into those conditions.
EZ