Category: Insights

THE  NIGHT you could hear them. You could head them howling at the moon. The Coyotes. They sound scary at first. If you just listened for a minute it sounded like a song. One would howle to the next and the next one after that. It would slowly lull you to sleep.  TO THE BORDER …

Day six the morning in the cloud. I woke up to a bed made of white. It was like a whole new world in  the hotel. I could not tell did it was in a good or bad way. All I new was that it was differ from the last five days.  It was almost…

14.7 miles  Day five. One more day and it would be the longest backing trip that I had ever had.  We decided the night before that we would go to town today. It was going to be nice to have a break from the cold and the rain. The town that we wanted to get…

Early morning The day stated out…well I don’t really know what to think about it. I woke up at the bottom of my sleeping bag curled in a ball. my mom had run to see it the store was open. That left me with some time to look at the map. After looking at the…

Day three was the hardest day ever that night you could hear it raining off and on that morning was the same we stated first to put away our sleeping bags then our clothes and finally our sleeping pans the we had a good breakfast of oatmeal with dehydrated straybrarings nuts and blueberries which was…

We walked 8.1miles today in about 4 hours. not bad the thing is that when we woke up we heard people say that there would be no water till the next shelter. so we filled up 3 litters of water and set off. the first half mile went well it was mostly Down hill. their…

Day one  We hiked 8.1 miles today. The day started off with us waking up spring mountain. At the bottom of the mountain we decided to dropped our packs. We ran up the mountain. It felt great to be free I had only worn my pack for two minutes and it already felt good to…

Read all about it at the Newburyport Daily News! amesbury mother-daughter duo set out for appalachian trail