Day 168 | Thru Hiking Meets Van Life | Appalachian Trail Thru Hike 2021
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- Опубліковано 8 січ 2022
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Morning Kelly! Van looks great! I’m so jealous. As soon as I find a 4x4 ambulance I’m gonna start my build. We do need to start a go fund me to get you a better radio, you can’t listen to the greatest band in all the land on that thing! Hey toasty, good to see you man! Nashville is such a great city, you did the right thing hanging out there. It is so amazing to see you back on trail. It is a little weird seeing you on such different terrain from Maine, but it is awesome none the less. It is almost like you started the trail again! If that dogs name isn’t Shadow, it should be! Such a good pup. I gotta admit I got a bit teary eyed when you hugged that trail sign. You are such an inspiration Kelly Hays. 🙏 Thanks for bringing us along today. I hope tomorrow’s miles are kind. Keep truckin’ and be well.
-Grateful
Congratulations on a job well done. I have not hiked the AT yet but I could just tell how emotional it was for you. I bet many experience some withdrawals after this. I agree that it is like an important chapter in your life coming to an end. You worked hard to get to there and I bet it was a new level of high. Thank you for sharing your experiences along the trail and all the great stops along the way. It sucks that your videos on the AT are over now. I really enjoyed them. I still have the remaining ones to watch but looking forward to your PCT Hike.
I.moved away from northeast Tennessee in June of 1988 to go to work in overnitw transportation home office in Richmond,va. Man I have been gone now for 34 years. Then beautiful cherokee national forest and the Great smokey mountains are calling me to move back home to tri cities. My dad still lives just west of kingsport,tn. So I will move back home wirh him to look after dad in his golden years. He will be turning 83 in September.
So I plan on taking uo hiking and going on many trails in the erwin,tn in unicoi county and on up in carter county where laurel falls and Watauga lake are located. Ir also doesn't get much prettier them being up in the Roan Mountain and Shady Valley areas by mountain city,tn heading towards Damascus,VA.
Super cool! Good luck with your 200 mile trek!
Good to see ya back 👏👏👏👏👏👏🥳
Finally catching up, glad you are able to finish it up.
Trail dog got more or a hike than it probably thought it was going to be. Lol. Proud of you KH.
First‼️
Oh, don’t get excited…I was not first to view, nor was I first comment.
9Lives was the first video I watched this morning. The others can wait.
It was good to see Toasty, though you had to endure Nashville traffic to do so.
This was a great beginning to completion and I smiled all the way through it.
One can plainly see that Kelly is in her happy place.
Good video with some good views, so let's keep on hiking
Just refreshing video, stay safe.
Really enjoyed this one!! Good for you!!
Texas hikeaholics one of the preeminent texas hiking channels, well to me anyway. God bless y'all.
@@overcomeinone8371 thanks so much!! That’s an awesome compliment! God bless and take care!!
Very nice video, thank you!
Great video the smoky mountains are the best they used to be taller than the Rocky mountains but they are super old mountains overtime they just have just gotten smaller
Yep, those Smokes are just like people. Hell I used to be 6'5" but now I'm old and I'm 6'3" 😂
Guthook forever! Amen!
Greetings 9 Lives and Sunshine!
Hey Kelly, Mrs. Sunshine could pass as your body double. Looks like you had fun. And cool that you got to spend time with Toasty. Are you going to be traveling back to California again with your job? If you do, come up to Jalama beach camping park just north of Santa Barbara. I'm the head Ranger so contact me and I'll set you up with a great campsite! I look forward to seeing all your future adventures and at the end of this year I retire and I'll be doing the same thing. Traveling the USA in a fifth wheel, hiking ,backpacking and camping and making videos for youtube. Have fun girl!
When walking near my house in WV I’ve had dogs, a goat and once a cow follow me a ways. Lol
You look very happy which makes us happy. Hope the new job is going well and life is good. Looking forward to the next video. Stay safe and be well.
Good to see a dietician with Pop Tarts in their food supply. Guess I'm not doing so bad with cookies and ice cream. 😆
I'm going to miss your AT posts ... They were so inspiring, heartfelt, funny , spiritual, ...I could go on ...I could have hugged your entire trail family when you reached the summit of katadin .... By the way , just the other day it was minus 65 degrees when the wind chill was factored in at the weather station on top of Mt. Washington....
Awesome looking grilled cheese!😃
It actually is nicely toasted
Nice van good luck
Can't wait to see the end. Are you following the AT hike that started the first week of December? SOBO.
Oh Aquaman, you're my hero
Love this video!! I always enjoy your hiking videos. Your van is awesome!! Thanks for sharing your last couple hundred miles with us. 🙂 Blessings to you.
Hey ladies✌🏻
Nice job 1st day out
Kelly looking forward to the next miles!!!!
Have fun
The Lost Sloth
Good morning Kelly good too see you getting too finish your hike
I love that van! Beautiful scenery, too. You found a VORTAC on the top of that mountain…I think it may have been “Snowbird”. It sends out a signal so you can tell which radial you’re on in relation to it, as well as how far from the station you are. Best of luck to you & Sunshine!
Love your necklace. Where fid you get that
I love the purist in you! “Getting it done” could have been a good trail name for you too! Well done, Kelly, we will continue to follow you because you are simply “the best”
So being a nutritionist really helped you to know what to eat and take with you on the trail ,,very cool cause as you know and probably seen most ppl don't know what it takes to keep up the energy and health to go on the trail or anywhere for that matter
Ur doing a great ,,watched you from day one, have a blessed day 🙏
Should have named the dog...wait for it; Deeogee! Ha Ha!
awesome video in so many ways. Just beautiful scenery.
Do you remember how many times you crossed the Caney Fork River in I-40?
Preacher here. It's five in four miles, make that trip all the time to go see my kids and grandkids. Not sure why that aggravates me but it always does. HA!
Kelly yelled Yee Yee! Made my day ❤
Kind of van ? Mercedes ?
Keep it up , guys are great 👍
Safe travels
I recognized those Middle Tennessee sites and I40 or I840 Bridge bumps, Broadway, Ascend Credit Union. You have been a joy to watch, thanks for sharing your AT and life Journey. The dog in my profile pic would have followed you 10 miles as well.
WAHOOOOOO!!!! And we got a dog too,, so excited.. where can i get the over shirt your wearing i really like it
Appalachian Gear Alpaca
@@dalelangdon6862 THANK YOU
Sweet
This the sunshine that hiked sobo on the CDT??
I think that's called Vamping... ....no, wait...that might be something else :)
I worried all night after watching this video about that dog.
Hi friend!!
quack, quack
Woot woot!=8)
13:00 I kept expecting you to start singing that 80's song "I'm so excited, and I just can't hide it". 😎👍
fried okra!
The grilled cheese looked really good!
After living off my bicycle for months at a time, and having had the same dirt and grime experience, I imagine it must have been nice to have clean gear again! 😁
@S M 7,400 miles of self supported bicycle touring, e.g., the east coast from Key West to upstate NY, the Rockies and Cascades, Erie Canalway... The gear, bicycle, and I got pretty grubby at times and having those reset opportunities where everything could be cleaned and serviced were very welcome! Kelly looked all cleaned up on this restart and I can appreciate that feeling very much!
@S M Three trips of 2 months, 2 months and 3 1/2 months made up 7,000 of the miles. I used parts of the Transamerica Route and Louis and Clark Route in the Rockies/Cascades. On the two east coast trips I made up my own routes.
@S M Back in 1986 while doing a 3,100+ mile bicycle trip I encountered two retired women in Poolesville, MD. They were doing a shake down trip in preparation to circumnavigate the U.S. They planned to leave from Buffalo, NY and ride counter clockwise. About 14-15 months later, while I was working at Colonial Williamsburg, VA, a couple guys stopped in the Gunsmith Shop. One was from North Carolina and the other from Texas. They asked me how I ended up working there and I told them I lined the job up while passing through on the bicycle trip. With that the guy from NC starts telling me about his friends who had just stayed with him in NC... I responded with "They started in Buffalo." The guy was floored that I had met them before they started! We long distance touring cyclists in the U.S. weren't terribly common back then so I stood a good chance of being right! 😉
Such a small world! I met two cyclist who hiked into the punchbowl shelter on the AT with their bikes. Maybe a mile off the BRP. They were tracing a smiley face across America on there journey.
awesome
Whoa that's Amazingly beautiful. Have you ever done the Ouachita trail here in Arkansas ?
dietitian...Those cheese-its and pop tarts must be part of her "things not to eat" inventory. Lol....
Did your friend with the dog finish??
Maybe check out day 70 in Harper's Ferry? She mentions Claire was getting off the trail "for a week" that was sort of the end of her tramily to that point, there's a woman and a dog in the video. I haven't really watched much except near the end and MD b/c I've been doing day hikes around there lately.
You guys are twin sisters Right?
Hey Kelly, Preacher here. If Toasty lives in Nashville, I'd love to hike with him. If he's interested, maybe you could let me know here and we can make arrangements. Been following you from the beginning, can't wait to follow you the rest of the way.
"Deeohghee". (Better phonics) ...
Oh , one other thing...there was a bit of a van life thing going on in the 1970 s when I was about your age ....
To tell you the truth, when you first started on the trail last spring I didn't
think you had a chance. You were way too cute and way too much of a
girly girl and I thought you would quit after a few days. Then you got sick
and I thought you were just making an excuse to get off the trail. Then
you came back and I thought wow, she must be serious about this. And
that's when I became a fan. I've been watching hiking videos for years
and once in a while people will do that, they will fake an injury just so
they don't have to continue. So glad you are the real thing and I really
hope your channel continues to grow.
oh so your not a thru hiker your a van driver?
Oh so YOU'RE not a speller - YOU'RE a hater?
If she hikes every mile of the trail, she is a through hiker! Where she sleeps at night and how she gets to the trail doesn’t matter.
Calm down buttercup..everyone does it their own way.
I like her free and easy here. She's done the trail. I don't know why folks get hung up on purity points. I don't even care if she didn't do those 200 miles, her heart was in the right place and she missed them through no fault of her own, she certainly tread a much harder and dangerous path than most folks. I think she knows that, sure, go ahead and make the math add up fine, but this time she's free of Katahdin and can do as she wants.
Chris Jay, please tell us where your YT channel is so we can follow your thru hike.
This made me laugh... "I'm a traveling registered dietician..." shows off a cabinet full of poptarts and junk food. Just shows that when you are hiking that much, burning thousands of extra calories.... you eat what you want.
Really enjoyed this one!! Good for you!!