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@@DonnaCook-o8c thank you so much! I started in March of 2023!

@@BeerinBeautifulPlaces thank youuuu 🥰 Miss you and Smoke!

I didn't even think of it that way 😅 but I'm glad you liked the video! Thanks for watching!

I'm happy to hear that my fellow thru-hikers vouch for these items too 😊

Thank you for subscribing! I hope to share lots of fun adventures! It was a tough choice at the time because I really wanted to have a continuous hike, but I knew from the moment I made it that it was the right decision. Safety first, always. There's a lot more trails I want to hike and I won't get to do that by making dumb decisions 😅

Was your trail family the Ra-Ra's by chance? That's the big trail family I remember we kept running in to around that section 😋

@pineconewanderings yeah! We were the RaRas! There were 10 of us in Waynesboro for those couple of days, we always had to get two hotel rooms when we went into town

@@ClaytonSea I think we leapfrogged with different members of your tramily throughout VA and then after that we like never saw y'all again 😅 Y'all were fast.

Nope! 😅 I filmed this on the way home in a Vermont State Park - sorry for the background noise. I wanted to record while the gear knowledge was fresh. Glad you still liked the video!

I think i was at the shelter up by tinker cliffs when you were eating your ice cream in the Wendys, if that was the same rain storm im thinking of!

@@ClaytonSea We probably crossed paths and didn't even realize it! It's wild how many people we did (or didn't) cross paths with on our adventure. I'm honored you're re-living trail memories by watching my videos. I've been enjoying re-living the trail that way too 😅

I know - I am lucky that trail maintainers do what they do. I am SO GRATEFUL for all the hard work they put in on the trails. I thanked them every time I saw them out working.🤗 I thought about taking that scene out of the video, but I don't only want to share the good moments on the trail. But I put the text over top so that people would know that I DO appreciate the work that goes into trail maintenance even though in that moment I was being a brat. And it's okay - I have since forgiven NH (it was me, not NH), it really was a beautiful state and I do hope to come back some day and really get to appreciate those sections of trail.

I am in the process of removing that section from my video. I never meant to appear ungrateful for trail maintainers efforts.

@@pineconewanderingsI don’t think most people thought you were being critical. You captured a moment of struggle. It makes your videos real.

Thank you! And I agree - since they already have all those amenities it would be awesome if they had a nice restaurant. But we enjoyed grabbing some postcards.

@@mattyice1226 so happy to hear you enjoyed it! The pumpkins are so magical!

I'm content with the decision I made, but at the time it was so tough to watch our friends walk on. But seeing Franconia on a clear day... that was pretty spectacular. Plus, Woodstock + Lincoln, NH were super cute so I'm glad we got a little extra time to enjoy them!

@@pineconewanderings it’s hard to part company but we are all on our own journey. You find somebody to stick with you like you have now and you are truly blessed.

Thank you! I love small businesses and if they're good, I love to spread the word so others can go support them!

Thank you for watching my videos! Week 23 will be up tomorrow. The delay is somewhat intentional because waiting to post my videos until after the trail allowed me to fully be in the moment instead of stressing about getting them posted and edited - plus editing them now allows me to relive the trail 🥰 And yes - Barbie and I are still going strong - even now a year later! So *spoiler* we do make it to the end together. Thanks again for watching!

@@Farminandfishin it’s definitely got some adorable gems!

Thank you for watching! I'm glad you enjoyed the video. To be honest, when gear wet out, I really just had to deal with it. I hate that that's the best answer I have, but it's what I did. I would try to keep moving and stay warm but if I got too cold we would usually just stop for the day and strip off everything wet we could. The AT is similar in that nothing was ever really dry. At the end of the day, I tried to keep wet stuff on as long as possible so my body heat would dry it a bit. If it was really that wet and super cold in combination and we were at risk for hypothermia then we stayed in a hostel for a night to get off the trail. With the exception of Georgia, we didn't have too many issues with temps under 30. I liked my Torrentshell but have quickly learned that anything with a seam eventually wets out. I have not heard of any rain gear that doesn't wet out. Even when stuff says it's waterproof. Hopefully this helped with your question a little ? And if I find any rain gear that doesn't wet out, I will absolutely share it!

@@pineconewanderings thanks for your honesty. I wish I could hike in shorts and I would just get wet on my legs, but I’m a poison ivy magnet. I hate wearing the wet pants for days on end. I wonder if leggings would hold less water/dry out faster? Also thinking of trying out a poncho like the Packa.

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Are you referring to the Pumpkin Head? 😂

@@pineconewanderings no

We're very grateful. So many people lost everything and some of my favorite towns no longer exist. It will take time but I have to hope that WNC will recover and be stronger than before.

@@ppalom2245 probably because it makes these already long videos even longer 😅 and I don’t know the weights off the top of my head. But I do have all the weights listed in my LighterPack list if that will help lighterpack.com/r/7ttob6 😊 Thanks for watching!

Yes - that helps a lot. (I don’t think your videos are too long. I could talk about gear all day long.). Do you have any more details about why you didn’t like your hiking sticks? I was thinking of getting the same one and you made reference to it, but didn’t go into details as to what was wrong with them.

@@ppalom2245 they’re super lightweight (which is amazing) but they’re super $$$ and they cracked on me twice with the replacement pieces being $35 a piece. And some of the other pieces inside were messed up (my poles sounded like rain sticks by the end) they worked fine but sounded like rain sticks. They were super light though and I did love that about them. But not sure the weight was worth the price and the replacements. When Trail Buddy poles are $20 and I had friends who hiked with those and they lasted them the entire trail 🤷‍♀️

Thank you so much! Thanks for watching!

Thank you for watching 🥹 and for following along on the adventure 🥰

@@sofiafsc556 I have never seen that, but it sounds amazing! I’ll have to add it to my list!

@@huanhu2308 it’s an awesome fall activity! Perfect for spooky season!

@@williamwadejr5302 it’s truly one of the best fall/halloween events I’ve ever been too! They really make it phenomenal!

Oh wow! That sounds lovely! I bet it was a very cool experience 😊

@@galejones5870 I LOVED it! And still love it for all my current smaller adventures 🥰

@@galejones5870 yes, absolutely! I’m sorry that I somehow forgot to but it in the description. The name of it is the Patagonia Ultralight Black Hole Mini Hip Pack!

@@pineconewanderings thank you!

😂 I’m sure we smell super yummy to them! And somehow I smell extra tasty 🫠 oh well. Part of the adventure.

It has a UPF of 30!

Hi Daniel! 29 lbs definitely isn't a bad weight including all your perishables. My baseweight when I started the trail was 21 lbs so with food and water it was always around 30 - 32 lbs (sometimes I overpacked my food and it was a little higher). When I finished the trail, I had shed gear and my baseweight was closer to 15 lbs and with perishables closer to 25. It is recommended that your pack weight stays at about 20% of your body weight and so I tried to stick in that range. If it helps, I have attached links to my Lighterpack lists that breaks down all my gear! Hopefully this helps, but I am happy to answer any questions that I can! Starting AT Gear List: lighterpack.com/r/kqencl Finishing AT Gear List: lighterpack.com/r/7ttob6

@@pineconewanderings Nice. Thanks for the prompt reply. My base hovers around 18lbs but there are a few absurd items I could easily shed to bring that down to 16. I have this sort of senseless idea to be the first person to complete a thru hike hauling a camp chair just to antagonize the pompous hikers who love to tell you what you're doing wrong, but once the jab wears off I'll probably look to ditch it. I have heard that 20% figure before but that metric slipped the mind. Probably explains why exceeding 30lbs is so grueling for me. I have 3 areas I know I could cut weight at a convenience expense for instance my Minimo to a titanium pot and pocket rocket cuts 8 oz, my pound and half guardian filter (love that thing though) to a Sawyer cuts a pound, 10f ZenBivy to a 25f sheds a pound and the offset Trio to a offset duo relieves about 6 oz. I know you didn't wanna sit through all that I just wanted to list it for future reference :) Good. I feel good about this. Almost there.

@@BucolicAholic you’ve got this 😊 and what I’ve discovered is if it’s worth it to you to carry it, then it’s worth the weight. So if you want to carry a camp chair - do it 😋 I carried way too many postcards at a time because I couldn’t write them fast enough but it was important to me to send them to my mom 🤷🏼‍♀️ I also carried my watercolor sketchbook that I used only a handful of times - but they were worth it to me to carry even though they added some weight. And lastly, the best way to figure out what you don’t want is to get out there - I sent a bunch of stuff after a month on the trail. You figure out pretty quickly what you need and want and what you can send home. You got this! Happy Trails 😊

@@xungnham1388 good to know! Thank you for the info!

@@williamwadejr5302 it was wonderful! We had a great time - though now I want to go hike some trails in Italy!

@@pineconewanderings after careful consideration, I think you two should go big and do some of the Italian Alps⛰️

@@williamwadejr5302after this trip, it’s definitely on our list now! 😊

I am going on the Disney Dream later this year and thanks for your video it is helping with the excitement

@@planmydisney Aw yay! Thank you so much for watching! I’m glad it’s helping with the excitement 😊Part 2 is coming soon - I hope you have a great time on your DCL adventure!

@@Herofriends01 it’s a great shirt for adventures!

It most definitely is! ❤ We love Smoke & Ranger and first met them in the Grayson Highlands. Barbie had a a habit of writing poems in shelters logs. Somewhere in Vermont he left a poem for Smoke. They were some of our favorite people we met on trail! 😊

Thank you so much! I love my Osprey - it was such a trusty pack for my AT thru-hike and I can't wait to take it on many future adventures!

Always and everyday!

Haha I don’t remember seeing him so I’m gonna say no! 😋 but I’ll keep an eye out on our next one!

@@pineconewanderings haha he was a funny guy maybe you'll see him on your next cruise!

Thank you so much for watching! I’m so glad it was helpful! Our trail names were actually Treats and Barbie, my real name is Tristan. Definitely keep watching the videos to see how it turned out for us 😋 (but spoiler ❗️ we’re still adventuring together a year later) 🥰

Thank you for watching! And thanks for the tip - we’ll definitely have to add Oasis class to our list! For now, next on our list is trying a DCL adventure!

Thank you so much! We booked thru Royal - it was our first cruise so we did not want to risk not making it back to the ship. I will say, it seemed a bit disorganized and we felt like a lot of our excursion was taken up by getting people organized to leave. The price was the same whether we booked thru Royal or just with Atlantis but if we booked direct with Atlantis transport would not be included.