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jmitch 
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Posted on: Feb. 27 2013, 6:35 pm |
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http://www.gethiking.net/
This is the website of the first (potential) thru-hikers of the GET, which goes from Alabama to New York. The trail is about 1,600 miles long, and not yet complete.
I recently read Earl Shaffer's "Walking with Spring" and it is fascinating how some of their experiences are so similar to Mr. Shaffer's, despite this thru-hike being almost 60 years later.
The posts and pictures are interesting and at times hilarious. Worth the read.
Let's all wish them the best on their journey.
More info about the GET:
http://greateasterntrail.net/
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spindle
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Posted on: Feb. 27 2013, 8:22 pm |
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Thanks. Now I want to do this.
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Burner973
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Posted on: Feb. 27 2013, 9:42 pm |
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very cool.
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Posted on: Feb. 27 2013, 9:46 pm |
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Uh-oh, there's already a GET (Grand Enchantment Trail). Anyway, I hope they have fun.
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Posted on: Feb. 28 2013, 9:56 am |
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Good on them, I hope they make it.
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hikingFF77
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Posted on: Mar. 04 2013, 10:09 am |
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Spindle, I couldn't agree more.
Every time I read about a new trail, it goes into the "I want to do that" part of my brain. Which mind you is right next to the, "I want that" part. hahaa
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WalksWithBlackflies
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Posted on: Mar. 04 2013, 10:18 am |
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I never heard of this trail. Imagine the loop that can be done!!!
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WalksWithBlackflies
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Posted on: Mar. 06 2013, 5:10 pm |
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(hiking_tiger @ Mar. 06 2013, 2:23 pm)
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(WalksWithBlackflies @ Mar. 04 2013, 9:18 am)
QUOTE I never heard of this trail. Imagine the loop that can be done!!! You could fly to Key West, go NOBO on the Eastern Continental, SOBO on the AT, then NOBO on the Great Eastern and practically land at home...with just a little connection help between each terminus.
Hmmm.... actually, I could walk out of my house, road walk 2 miles, hit the Old Erie Canal Trail to the NCT Link Trail, to the Finger Lakes Trail, to the Great Eastern Trail, to the AT, to the Hudson Trail, to the NCT, to the Old Erie Canal trail, then back home. I could do the Eastern Continental/Florida Trail as an optional spur.
Thanks for nuthin'. 
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ki0eh
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Posted on: Mar. 06 2013, 7:31 pm |
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The ECT and GET have a common route in Alabama (to the extent either has an official route that is).
Cut-overs between GET and AT include Georgia Pinhoti-Benton MacKaye Tr in north GA; overlap at Pearisburg, VA; Tuscarora (former Big Blue) trail in north VA; C&O Canal NHP in MD aka American Discovery Trail aka Potomac Heritage NST; Tuscarora Trail in south PA; Finger Lakes Trail to Long Path and/or Shawangunk Ridge Tr; North Country NST with proposed extension or Sea-to-Sea Route past Middlebury VT to Long Trail.
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no_granola
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Posted on: Mar. 06 2013, 8:00 pm |
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(WalksWithBlackflies @ Mar. 06 2013, 5:10 pm)
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(hiking_tiger @ Mar. 06 2013, 2:23 pm)
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(WalksWithBlackflies @ Mar. 04 2013, 9:18 am)
QUOTE I never heard of this trail. Imagine the loop that can be done!!! You could fly to Key West, go NOBO on the Eastern Continental, SOBO on the AT, then NOBO on the Great Eastern and practically land at home...with just a little connection help between each terminus. Hmmm.... actually, I could walk out of my house, road walk 2 miles, hit the Old Erie Canal Trail to the NCT Link Trail, to the Finger Lakes Trail, to the Great Eastern Trail, to the AT, to the Hudson Trail, to the NCT, to the Old Erie Canal trail, then back home. I could do the Eastern Continental/Florida Trail as an optional spur. Thanks for nuthin'.
Sounds like a plan. When I get my house in Mt Morris I can put you up for the night.
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ki0eh
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Posted on: Mar. 06 2013, 8:59 pm |
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He'd have to spur west to get to Mt Morris, the split is north of Corning
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ki0eh
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Posted on: Mar. 07 2013, 10:51 am |
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Interesting TV local news story in KY about this hike:
Local TV station news site link
The text added a zero onto the rough distance of GET north of Flagg Mountain (should be 1,600 on their hike not 16,000). It would be 1800 miles or so from the FL/AL border.
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jmitch
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Posted on: Apr. 17 2013, 8:16 pm |
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They are now in Virginia.
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spindle
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Posted on: Apr. 17 2013, 8:32 pm |
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VA should take a while. 
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ki0eh
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Posted on: Apr. 29 2013, 7:37 pm |
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When you see big beards and bigger backpacks, they're not attached to bums.
newspaper link (may be paywalled)
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jmitch
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Posted on: May 19 2013, 11:04 pm |
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They are now in Maryland! Getting closer.
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Posted on: May 20 2013, 10:37 pm |
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Now PA.
In the last few minutes I had a thought. It seems like they'll be trekking along the logged area south of Cowans Gap tomorrow. That's just gonna be a horrible sauna.
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