About this journal
In the spring of 2013, I set out from Springer Mountain in Georgia and walked north along the Appalachian Trail toward Maine. This site is a record of that journey — 157 days, 2,186 miles.
The entries were written day by day on an iPhone 4, usually at the end of a long day of hiking. Typing wasn't always what I wanted to be doing after ten or fifteen miles on foot, so some days are more detailed than others. The words are unpolished and unedited — written in the moment, left as they were.
The photos were taken with a Sony DSC RX-100 and are completely (or almost completely) unedited. What you see is what the trail looked like.
The map path is sourced from current GPS data and may not match exactly where I walked — the AT is occasionally rerouted, and some sections have shifted since 2013. When the path veers into a town, I always returned to the exact spot where I stepped off the trail before continuing north. No shortcuts, no skipped miles. The dashed lines on the map don't reflect this well.
- Doug Labbe (Rylu)