Dear Josh and Amanda I followed your progress will on the trail and understand getting off the trail. I just wonder if either of you have any regrets.\\\\r\\\\n\\\\r\\\\nSincerly, \\\\r\\\\nLiving the rat race

Hey thank you SO MUCH for the map... I'm planning to hike AT in a few years and I've been looking everywhere for a good map!! I can't wait to go!!!
-sam

Hey guys - Me and my girlfriend are newbie hikers and I just happened to find your site. It is 2:00am on Tues. and I couldn't stop reading your journal. What an adventure! Thank you so much for sharing. You both are excellent writers with a fabulous website.

I see that the Coyote Ranger District in New Mexico wants to make a new section of the CDT and they have routed it right through designated wilderness area: they have plans to use dynamite (!) and chain saws to make the trail section. Your trail map, overlaid on Google Maps, shows a much saner route from Ojitos Canyon to highway 84: the Coyote Ranger District wants to blast a trail over the mesa to the east, which is through wilderness.

It's weird when citizens have to protect the forest from the people who are paid to protect the forest....

I happened to come across your website and I must say I absolutely love it. I have great respect for you being able to get off the trail because you weren't enjoying yourselves. Most people would have kept going and really accomplished nothing. I noticed that you stop about a year after my sister and I started the trail (July 10). We were SOBOs. I think if you do nothing else, you should do New Hampshire and Maine. They are by far the hardest states but certainly the most rewarding. You definitely wouldn't want to hike 1400 miles and miss the best part. I absolutely love the map of the long trails and am curious how you did it while (it's quite accurate).Good luck on finishing your hike.
tyler

Hi Josh and Amanda! I very much enjoy reading about your AT adventures and am DYING to hit the trail myself. Until then, I'll continue to live vicariously through your journals! Hopefully, when my AT dream is realized, I'll have the discipline to keep as entertaining a journal as yours! Peace...:)

hey,
this is one of the two hoosiers you met at lost mountain shelter around Mt. Rogers in Virginia. I remembered Josh telling me about the website, but i couldn't remember what it was, and a few minutes ago it just hit me. you wrote about us in your journal around march 29th. I found our picture and it brought back some good memories from you guys and the 5 guys from NC. by the way, our names were george and trevor. I dunno if you really remember who we were, you guys were on the trail a lot more than we were. hope you guys are doing well.

This site is amazing. I'm actually co-writing a musical about two friends who hike the Appalachian Trail together, and I'm definitely planning to come back to this site for details.

The map in particular is amazing.

Be warned, you may find your names used in our show!