Appalachian Trail re-visited

It's been almost a year since I finished the Appalachian Trail by hiking to Roan Mountain (I am pictured at right on the exact spot where I finished). I have yet to bring Calista out on her first AT hike, and in fact I have not been on the AT at all since last June. It's been a busy year! But I have been working on a journal of my travels. The journal consists of a description of each day of hiking, along with photos, elevation profiles, mileage totals, and maps. I might be adding to it over the summer (I just read about some new ideas for creating computer-based trip journals in Backpacker magazine), but I view it as essentially complete. So . . check it out if you are interested.

UPDATE - Tatiana reminded me that Calista actually HAS been on a portion of the AT. I hiked the southernmost ~20 miles of the Tuscarora Trail in April, starting at Elizabeth Furnace in the Massanuttan Mountains (a mountain ridge parallel to Shenandoah). Tatiana met me in Shenandoah, and hiked a short section of the AT with Calista while waiting for me. I was also on the AT for the last mile of the hike. The Tuscarora Trail, but the way, is a 200+ mile trail that joins the AT in Shenandoah and again near Harrisburg, but follows a more western route. It was devised in the 1960s, before the National Trails Act was passed, providing permanent federal protection for the AT corridor. Prior to the passage of the Act, trail managers feared that development would overtake the trail corridor between Shenandoah and southern Pennsylvania.