September Sobo - Appalachian Trail

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#1

I have time + money. I’m gonna hike my bum off!

However, I don’t know quite when to start or what direction.

I’ve thought of starting Northbound in January. I’ve read a few journals, and even met Ghost this year in the Wilderness - he didn’t have bad snow until Vermont! And I really want to read more of Comer + Jean’s hike a few years back.

But I’ve thought of heading southbound - on or around September 10.

Hey, I live in Maine, and no one needs to tell me what might happen. Hell, it was 37 degrees about two nights ago (Aug. 7th?). I have read a journal from Jim Shattuck (sp?) in the two volume Rodale book, Hiking the Appalachian Trail

Anyhow, some feedback would be nice.

See ya

Kineo Kid

#2

I’m from NH. I go just after the second, if any, blackfly coming. That way the waters are still warm enough to swim in and you can hike south with the colors of fall AND avoid the bugs. At least that’s my plan, some day. Which means leaving any day now. So why are you farting around in front of the computer?

Bushwhack

#3

I loved my southbound hike from Katahdin to Speck Pond between 9/24 and 10/15/03. Cool weather and great autumn colors were just two great things, meeting more than 200 northbound thru hikers was another. There was some rain and if I could have continued I probably would’ve had to dodge some early winter-like conditions in the Whites and then deal with increasingly cold and occasionall snowy conditions until the end but If I was ever to hike the A.T. again I’d do a last day of Summer to first day of Spring southbound hike. My Maine hike from 2003 is at

celt

#4

Go south bound and avoid the cold weather. It will be cold up north in the early fall but much colder in the Southern Appalachians in January. Plus it’s a nice walk.

Darth Pacman

#5

met two guys who hiked southbound starting September. tough SOBs, too. the lonleiness got to them (they hiked separately), and obviously the cold was pretty hard to deal with, too.

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