HOBOS GOING SOBO THEN NOBO IN THEIR OBOZ: Our In-tents Journey on the AT

HOBOS GOING SOBO THEN NOBO IN THEIR OBOZ: Our In-tents Journey on the AT 2026 - God willing we will strap on our boots once again for what will hopefully be our last and final leg of the Appalachian Trail. Katahdin! A 5 year dream!

We have 450 miles left as we journey through New Hampshire and Maine, culminating at Mt.

06/20/2026

Day 7 - Friday, June 19, 2026

Kinsman Notch to Glencliff Trailhead, 7.8 miles - Mt. Moosilauke
Total miles hiked so far this year: 47.8
Total miles hiked on the AT: 1801.8

A huge milestone:
We hit the 1800 mile marker!!! Less than 400 miles to go!!

As you will see in the video, I was so nervous about our climb up Mt. Moosilauke, our first 4K mountain in the Whites. There is cause to have a cautious fear but other than that, I really didn’t need to worry. We took it very slow and really enjoyed the journey!

It’s been a long week, so tomorrow we are taking the day off for much needed rest. I will be doing my weekly blog which I hope to have out tomorrow, but as far as videos, see y’all again on Sunday!

06/18/2026

Day 6 - Thursday, June 18, 2026

NH 25A to NH 25C, 5 miles
Total miles hiked so far this year: 40
Total miles hiked on the AT: 1794

🎶 I'm singin' in the rain
Just singin' in the rain
What a glorious feelin'
I'm happy again … 🎶

We knew it was going to be a really wet one today so we prepared ourselves with our rain gear and a happy attitude to go along with it. We really do have so much to be grateful and thankful for even if it doesn’t always go the way we hope or plan.

This is the day the LORD has made;
let us rejoice and be glad in it. Psalm 118:24

06/18/2026

Day 5 - Wednesday, June 17, 2026

Quintown Road to NH 25A, 6.7 miles
Total miles hiked so far this year: 35
Total miles hiked on the AT: 1789.0

Another glorious sunshiny day here in New Hampshire! We really couldn’t ask for better weather conditions for hiking. Another Goldilocks day today!
We’re nearing the Whites soon and will be hiking over 4,000 ft mountains, the first one, Mt. Moosilauke is scheduled for Saturday but with the forecast, our better day to hike it might be Friday. I’ve heard way too many stories about these mountains coming up … please keep us in your prayers.

“I can do all things through Christ who gives me strength.” Philippians 4:13

06/17/2026

Day 4 - Tuesday, June 16, 2026

Lyme-Dorchester Road to Quintown Road, 8.3 miles, total miles hiked this year: 28.3
Total miles hiked on the AT: 1782.8 miles

The weather was absolutely perfect for hiking today, sunny and 65 degrees. This section of trail we found fun with all the rock climbing but definitely had its challenges! A Goldilocks kind of day for sure - it was just right!!

“When everything seems like an uphill struggle, think of the view from the top” ~ Unknown

06/16/2026

Day 3 - Monday, June 15, 2026

Goose Pond Road to Lyme-Dorchester Road, 5.5 miles, total so far: 20 miles

We woke up to rainy, wet conditions this morning which caused FROG to quickly jump out of bed yelling, “Oh no! I left my boots outside!” Needless to say, he returned back inside with water logged boots and wet insoles in his hand. We tried drying them in the dryer and using the blo dryer to no avail, he started the hike with wet shoes. It didn’t matter, the majority of the trail today was under water. We both came home with drenched shoes!

We’re going with Plan B. I had high hopes to be able to give you a video montage AND a complete write up on our day on a daily basis but it’s become too difficult to do both nightly. I’ve decided that I will do a video of highlights of our day daily (when we have reception to do so that is) and once a week I will do a write up with still pictures, a recap of our week. With all that we need to do nightly and being so tired after a long day of hiking, I need to make it easier on myself. Thank you so much for understanding.

Thanks for following along on our adventures - GOD has great adventures in store for you too!

06/15/2026

DAY 2 - Sunday, June 14, 2026

Etna-Hanover Road to Goose Pond Road - 8.1 miles, total so far 14.5 miles.

It was an early morning departure this morning since we would be hiking for 8.1 miles along Moose Mountain Trail. In New Hampshire, although you are still on the Appalachian Trail, they name each section by what area you are hiking. Today would be all about the Moose 🫎. Moose Mountain South and North Peaks, and the Moose Mountain Shelter. It would have been absolutely a-moose-ing if we had actually seen a moose but I will settle for our first scenic view!

🫎 I “moose” say the view was stunning! There’s nothing better than climbing up a mountain to be rewarded with a display of beauty! When you climb and get no views, hikers call it a PUD, acronym for Pointless ups and downs. The North Peak of Moose Mountain was just that, a complete PUD!

🫎 On a more somber note. A tidbit of information I found out about Moose Mountain. On October 25, 1968 a Northeast Airlines Flight 946 left Boston for Lebanon, and Montpelier, New Hampshire. The aircraft was a Fairchild Hiller FH – 227C, with thirty-nine passengers and a crew of three aboard; pilot, co-pilot, and a stewardess. Shortly after 6 p.m. local time, the aircraft crashed on Moose Mountain in Grafton County, New Hampshire, while descending on approach. The crash killed 32 of 42 passengers and crew; 10 people survived the crash with minor or moderate injuries. It remains the deadliest plane crash in New Hampshire history.

Upon hitting the mountain, the plane plowed its way through trees and immediately caught fire after coming to rest. All ten of the survivors were seated in the rear of the aircraft, and managed to escape through the rear service door or by squeezing through openings in the fuselage. In all, seventeen people managed to escape the flames, but seven were fatally injured and succumbed to their injuries before help arrived. The injuries to the remaining survivors ranged from lacerations to broken bones.

Darkness, the remote location of the crash, combined with rain and freezing temperatures hindered rescue efforts. Those who could, made their way down the mountain on their own, while the rest were air lifted off by helicopter. The helicopters landed on the green at Dartmouth College, and from there the survivors were transported to Mary Hitchcock Hospital. (Information taken from the NY Times)

🫎 There is no evidence of the crash that we saw and I think it would have been fitting to have had a memorial at that site in memory of those that lost their life there and recognition of those that survived the horrific crash.

🫎 I know this is short, but I moose leave you now, I’m very tired after a long day. I will moose definitely be back tomorrow.

06/14/2026

DAY ONE IS IN THE BOOKS!!!

Hanover, NH to Etna-Hanover Road,
6.4 miles.

We chose to make it easy on ourselves our first day with low mileage to slowly ease back into it. It still met challenges but overall was a great hike and a beautiful (warm) sunny day.

😎Starting point was on Ledyard Bridge in Hanover, in the middle of the bridge, at the Vermont/New Hampshire border. We finished there last year but wanted a redo at the sign for this year. There is a video of our first steps taken on trail this time; I wanted to include y’all because you’ve been so supportive of our hikes. I apologize for the video, my cell phone was strapped to my backpack and it wasn’t recording straight on and I realized it too late. Any takers to come and be our videographer??!!

😎 Hanover was confusing!
There was some construction going on so the blazes we were supposed to follow were not visible and we ended up going the wrong direction in town. At least that’s our story and we’re sticking with it! It couldn’t possibly be any fault of ours!

😎FROG fell and hit his head!
We were going downhill and I’m pretty sure he slipped on leaves and tree roots. It happened in slow motion as I was right behind him; I reached out to try and catch him, he knocked my hiking pole out of my hand, down he went and hit his head on my pole. He is currently in possession of a tiny goose egg.

😎 You’re going the wrong way.
We only saw 2 people on the trail today, first was Dart who was at the shelter (who you see in the video) the second was a gentleman that insisted we were lost and most likely walking the wrong way. Okay, so in all fairness, we did get lost earlier while in the town but we knew for sure this time we were headed in the right direction. He was running on the trail and he admitted he kept losing sight of the blazes. (See! It’s not just us! They were hard to spot.) Anyway, he stopped on trail right where we were and confessed he was confused and didn’t know which way to go. We showed him the trail blaze and pointed forward to the next marker. He runs off. Again, we see him stopped all confused. We point to the next marker. He runs ahead. After a while we see him running back towards us and continues running past us. I need to interrupt this story for just a moment to say …

😎FROG fell again! This time trying to get up onto a boulder to cross a tiny stream. This time it was a soft landing, in the mud! His legs were covered with mud. Mud baths are supposed to be a good thing, right? Good golly! We’re hoping he’s got this all out of his system and no more falls!!!
Now …. back to my previous story … the gentleman runner has now come back in our direction just as FROG is getting up. He is concerned and tries to help. That was nice. But then he turns to me and says he thinks we’re the ones going in the wrong direction and that we are the ones confused. I guarantee you, this time we were definitely going in the right direction. Strange encounter but nice that he was concerned with FROG. By the way, I just agreed with him that we maybe we were messed up and he left agreeing. Whatever!

😎 We’re roughing it for 2 weeks.
Y’all should feel so sorry for us. Lol, I wish I could rough it like this for the whole 3 months! Check out the video in the comments. It’s a beautiful place but don’t even think about opening the back door unless you want the loudest high pitched security alarm to go off!!! My ears are still ringing!!

See y’all tomorrow! Keep dreaming your dreams but make them happen! Life begins at the end of your comfort zone!

06/13/2026

🎶Tomorrow! Tomorrow! I love ya! Tomorrow! You’re always a day away! 🎶

It took a village … thanks to our PUDO Team: Charity (Denise Ahart), Poodle (Ann Porter), Grasshopper (Hugh Porter) and Joy (Kathy Sherwin) all helping out in different ways, we made it to New Hampshire! Big day tomorrow as we take our first steps towards the finish line. STAY TUNED!!!

06/10/2026

DAYS LEADING UP TO LIFE ON THE TRAIL … 3 MORE DAYS TO GO!!!

On Sunday, June 7 we flew to Vermont where our friends, Ann & Hugh picked us up and brought us to their home for a few days of R&R before life on the trail begins.

Since we’re trying to get more comfortable videotaping our journey and talking to a camera, we’ve done another short test video introducing our friends and how we met. As you can see, technology is not my forte but please give me grace for effort.

After doing the video, I feel clarification is needed as I don’t think I explained, on the video, just how much of a role our friends play for us on the AT.

Although they think we’re crazy and may not have understood all the decisions we’ve made since becoming friends, they have still been supportive and very willing to help us with whatever we needed to do to fulfill this dream of completing the AT.

For the past two years they have:
✅ picked us up at the trailheads upon completion of our section hikes
✅ graciously opened up their home for us to stay afterwards to recoup. They fed us, let us take many showers, gave us a comfy bed to sleep in and let us wash our dirty laundry
✅ driven us 2.5 hours to meet up with friends or to get a car rental
✅ agreed to hold our backpacks at their house all year so we didn’t have to haul them back and forth to and from Texas

This year they have:
✅ taken 2 boxes full of resupply (food and first aid) back with them from Texas for us
✅ picked us up at the airport
✅ let us stay at their home once again providing all the modern day conveniences knowing soon we wouldn’t have any of those to enjoy
✅ taken us to one of our favorite places in the Adirondacks, Lake Placid, and agreed to sit and do a video that is out of all our comfort zones
✅ had a special bbq in our honor to introduce us to some of their closest friends
✅ and will take us to meet up with Denise (aka Charity) in Vermont on Friday for the start of our next section hike
✅ AND I know there will be so much more … it’s just the type of friends they are … they are what we call true trail angels. 😇

06/06/2026

A WEEK FROM TODAY!!

Words from my poet, FROG, as we enter into our last week before hitting the trail:

New Hampshire and Maine
is all that remains
To finish the Appalachian Trail
Then we can finally exhale

There will be mountains to climb
And rushing streams to cross
many miles to walk
With so much time to talk

There will be bears and there will be deer
But no animals to fear
Mostly just the rain
That provides all the pain

Setting up the tent each night
In wind and pouring rain
We only want to lie right down
because our legs are in such pain

That climb up Katahdin—
What will it feel like then?
There are just five miles left
Before the journey ends

And when we stand beside the sign
And our picture has been taken,
Suddenly it will all be over—
Yet something in us will have awaken.

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