In the spirit of trying to provide some info. for future hikers and to occupy myself on the trail during breaks I have 3 entries at the end of my journal which might be helpful:
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Resupply / Town info. for each town I went to. I really liked the AZT towns.
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Water info. and trail condition info. by Passage. I think the water info. would be very helpful for a Fall hiker as a baseline of where water really might be. This was a fairly dry year so I think if I found water, then there is a fairly good chance next years Fall hikers should too (of course nothing is certain out there). It’s probably irrelevant for a Spring hiker as there should be a lot more than I listed.
The trail conditions info. is just my opinion of how easy/hard the trail was to follow in each Passage. My overall conclusion was that the trail was much easier to follow than I expected. I’m assuming this is due to the massive effort of the ATA and volunteers the last few years.
- Just some random thoughts on things specific to hiking the AZT.
If anyone sees anything they think is not true or should be added let me know. I’d hate to put bad info. out there.
Brian (Buck-30).
Brian