Just Two Hikers
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Just Two Hikers is a blog about two hikers, Dormouse and Dirt Stew. They hiked the Appalachian Trail northbound from Georgia to Maine in 2010, and hiked the Pacific Crest Trail southbound from Canada to Mexico in 2014. This blog is all about their adventures.
Just Two Hikers
5M ago
It has been MORE THAN A YEAR since we have been backpacking, which is probably an all time record. Two years of grad school followed by a cancer diagnosis and surgery left us with very little hiking and no backpacking this summer. But we’re back in the Asheville area, and have decided start a new ..read more
Just Two Hikers
1y ago
Exactly eight years ago now John and I reached the southern terminus of the Pacific Crest Trail. During this nearly 2600-mile journey, John carried a custom GPS unit to record, step by step, the location of the trail for a project called the “half-mile project.” Little could guess where we would wind up eight years ..read more
Just Two Hikers
1y ago
Day 5 I woke up sleepy. Donner wanted to get an early start, as usual, but at this point I was a bit resistant. We hiked along the lake and the miles went by quickly since it was mostly flat. We stopped at a bridge for a snack and chatted with kayakers paddling in the ..read more
Just Two Hikers
1y ago
It’s been a while since I’ve blogged about any of our hiking adventures. I completely lost steam as I entered grad school over a year ago now. In case you’re wondering, I’m working on getting a Master of Forestry degree from Duke University. I gave up a perfectly good career as a hiking bum to ..read more
Just Two Hikers
3y ago
The Okefenokee Swamp has been on John’s “to visit” list for quite some time now, so as a birthday trip, we decided to go down there and do a little canoe camping. The Okefenokee Swamp is in Southern Georgia, almost on the border of Florida. (March 27th) We enjoyed a night camping not far from ..read more
Just Two Hikers
3y ago
Let me start out by saying that for this race I did more ambitious training than usual. The last time I trained close to this hard (i.e. actually train) was for the Mount Mitchell Challenge 2019, my first ultrarunning race. After that I just kind of winged it for the rest of the year doing ..read more
Just Two Hikers
3y ago
Georgia Loop I’ve failed miserably to write this post for several weeks now, but I did want to get it into a blog since I think it’s helpful to compare this loop to the Bartram/Appalachian Trail loop, which is almost the same distance (55-60miles). Although I thought both loops were fun, I do prefer the ..read more
Just Two Hikers
3y ago
Georgia Loop I’ve failed miserably to write this post for several weeks now, but I did want to get it into a blog since I think it’s helpful to compare this loop to the Bartram/Appalachian Trail loop, which is almost the same distance (55-60miles). Although I thought both loops were fun, I do prefer the ..read more
Just Two Hikers
3y ago
Last year, when we hiked the Bartram Trail, our friend Donner and another fellow, Savage, joined us for the first two days. They had found a 55-60 mile loop that the Bartram made with the AT, and they could just about squeeze that into a long weekend in order to join us for a short ..read more
Just Two Hikers
3y ago
The Tahoe Rim Trail was terrific. At 175 miles long, it is short enough that folks could do this hike while holding down a full-time job (still trying to get one of those), and still long enough to get into thru-hiking/adventure mode. You may think that 175 miles around a lake would get sort of ..read more