Trail journals

Often, the best writing on the trail isn’t found in guidebooks or registers, but in the trail journals folks may keep during the course of their journey. We’d like to offer some here, if folks wouldn’t mind sharing them with us at journals@aldha.org. If you have any drawings you’d like to contribute, send them along, too, either scanned as GIF or JPEG images to the same address, or as actual drawings to our snail-mail address, 10 Benning St., PMB 224, West Lebanon, NH 03784. Thanks!

“Annie and the Salesman,” A.T. class of ’94, have posted several columns filed from their 1999 thru-hike of the Pacific Crest Trail, from the Mexican border to the Canadian border.

Around the South Pole
By Albie Pokrob

Bear hug from a trail angel
By Timothy Johnston

Catawba to Pearisburg in ’96
By Jim Lemire, “AT 2000”

Hiking the Florida Trail
By Larry McDuff, “The Salesman”

McAfees Knob and Mothers-in-law
By Andrew Sam, “Medicine Man”

A.T. friends reunite on PCT
By Mike Henderson, “Ke Kahaawe”

Growing old with grace
By Larry McDuff, “The Salesman”

Loneliness of the long-distance hiker
By Waldo L. Jaquith

Maine-New Hampshire-Vermont ’73
By Rick Holt

Two years after Katahdin
By Chris Galanty, “OC, The Optimistic Crusader”

All in One Roll
By Alan Strackeljahn, “Gonzo!”

Bog Scouter’s ’92 Thru-Hike
By Karl Luce, “Bog Scouter”

An Okie in the Smokies
By Phil Heffington
Machu Picchu, Trek of a Lifetime
By Vincent Stephenson

“Arctic Sven’s” 1999 thru-hike
By Loren Chassels
Ward Leonard and the Art of Thru-Hiking
By Eric Lupfer

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Around the South Pole By Albie Pokrob	Bear hug from a trail angel By Timothy Johnston
Catawba to Pearisburg in ’96 By Jim Lemire, “AT 2000”	Hiking the Florida Trail By Larry McDuff, “The Salesman”
McAfees Knob and Mothers-in-law By Andrew Sam, “Medicine Man”	A.T. friends reunite on PCT By Mike Henderson, “Ke Kahaawe”
Growing old with grace By Larry McDuff, “The Salesman”	Loneliness of the long-distance hiker By Waldo L. Jaquith
Maine-New Hampshire-Vermont ’73 By Rick Holt	Two years after Katahdin By Chris Galanty, “OC, The Optimistic Crusader”
All in One Roll By Alan Strackeljahn, “Gonzo!”	Bog Scouter’s ’92 Thru-Hike By Karl Luce, “Bog Scouter”
An Okie in the Smokies By Phil Heffington	Machu Picchu, Trek of a Lifetime By Vincent Stephenson
“Arctic Sven’s” 1999 thru-hike By Loren Chassels	Ward Leonard and the Art of Thru-Hiking By Eric Lupfer