Trail Name (and web site) :Crazeeoldman.com (No More!!!Nov. 2008 - Good ole AOL shut down Hometown !!
So many were caught with all webwork lost. I recouped and put it here)
 | Summary Facts and stuff Began on MARCH 17,1998 Initial weight: 178 lbs of 65 year-old fat-choked, booze-soaked 'muscle'. (If my muscles were as hard as my arteries, I'd be in terrific shape) Waist 34 1/2, initial pack weight 46/50 lbs. Completed half of AT: 1076 miles in 73 days including several zero mileage/lurch days(Hot Springs, NC, Damascus, GA, Harper's Ferry, etc) Averaged 14.7 miles/day(including off days) At end of hike: weight= approx. 145; waist about 31 1/2. Fat content measured at S'bury Health Club= off the charts (low end) |
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This homepage was set up so that I'd have a site for insights, thoughts, people met, etc during/after my 1998 AppalachianTrail hike. The hike let me meet and make many unusual friends ......also Rats, Lice, Ticks, gnats (you got to love 'em).
FOLKS I MET ON THE A.T. (Hope I didn't miss or forget too many....). The AT Society of hikers is a unique microcosm..... of what many in America would like our 'normal' society to become.
(For new hikers, you may wish to copy this schedule and then modify as you "deem sensible for your conditioning". Remember, this was for a 65 year old "CrazeeOldMan"....dot com)
THE APPALACHIAN TRAIL (Called The Green Tunnel)
....sans the ubiquitous snow which accompanied hikers most of spring. (I swiped this photo from my pal Dragon's Breath. I like him lots better now that I'm not listening to his sonorous nighttime melodies. Many, many miles on the Trail looked like this.)
500 Mile Midway Report written by my favorite ex-sports writer for the Owensboro KY. Messenger and Inquirer, namely Lance/Lanz Dazzle)
Starting off at Springer Mt.,GA |
See: Day by Day Journal ..if you can stand the GORY details! (particularly 4/1/98) |
Related or just interesting sites - (2008 most are now defunct)
- Trail Journals
- Dragon's Breath AT plus his myriad of adventures
- Nephew Alan's Adventures (Banff, etc)
- Trailplace (Everything about the AT)
- GORP (everything about the outdoors)
- Hikercafe
- Chilkoot's (Has Great Photos-particularly hiking NAKED)
- Leif (Webhiker)
- My Favorite Movie Star (...since Sonny Tufts Died)
After getting off the trail being dehydrated from a 7 day flu, I had a "manic episode" and was tossed
in the hospital (almost a mental one...). All is well now thankfully......
One last piece of "beefcake" if you can stand it...or what racehorse hiking and a virus can do to old guys.....(weight=145 lbs @Harper's Ferry). CHOKE! I'm now about 175! (oops! Okay, it's now 2006, married to Marie-Anne LeHardy and tipping the scale at gasp - 185! But...
Life is good!
Sept.
2000 - Read about our adventures encountered by Leroux, Doc Martindale
and I in 2000 that were essentially a virtual replica ofin Bill Bryson's in his "Walk in the Woods". It's fun!
FINIS