Reflections on the Appalachian Trail

Spring ephemerals are blooming all over the woods here in the mid-Atlantic. The Virginia Bluebells are in full bloom along the river, Dutchman’s Breeches litter hillsides, and the pink of Eastern Redbud trees stand out all over town.

It’s finally hiking season again. (Let’s be real, hiking season never ends, but I do love it a little more with the nighttime lows are ABOVE freezing, haha)

While I prep for another season of section hiking the AT, I’ve been mulling over reposting old blog posts and unpublished journal entries from my LASH* on the AT in 2017. It took the blog down a few years ago when I revamped my other website, for professional theatre work, to be more theatre/career oriented. I’ve been considering reposting it for over a year now and, as I carefully plan a summer of section hiking while the COVID-19 pandemic continues on, seems like a good time to finally reflect on my first 1296.2 miles of section hiking on the AT.

Over the next month I plan to re-post those old blog and journal entries with present-day reflections and thoughts. I hope it will be a good resource to (if, haha) any readers, but, if anything, it will be a nice way to remind myself of what I’m getting into yet again.

Thanks you, happy hiking, and enjoy spring wildflower season!

—Little Bug

*LASH = Long Ass Section Hike—In 2017, I hiked from Springer Mountain, GA to my hometown, Boonsboro, MD.