I started at Amicalola Falls in 2014 (where I briefly worked as an intern back in my college days) and thought I'd follow the white marks and see where they went. It took longer than expected. Jokes aside, I grew up hiking on the AT in Georgia and it was fun to do the whole thing. I had no idea there was an entire article on the balds!
I thru hiked in 2002. One of my fellow travelers started in Georgia planning to hike for two weeks, made it all the way to Maine!
Good to see another AT hiker on here!
Quite a trip seeing the names of all those mountains I walked over. This is an interesting factoid I wish I'd known on my hike, I was always curious why there were no alpine zones in the southern Appalachians.
One of my favourite memories from the Appalachian Trail was somewhere up in New England; someone was on a day hike and asked "how far does this trail go?", my answer "Georgia" wasn't satisfying to them for some reason...