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		<title>The American Discovery Trail Humanitarian Hike</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Starting in May 2011 Cindy and I will be hiking the American Discovery Trail, going 5,000+ miles from Point Reyes in California to Cape Hanlopen in Delaware in a year.  I&#8217;ll post our progress on this site.  Check out The Hiking Humanitarian web site for more details on the humanitarian aspects of our journey. addthis_url [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Last Showers before the ADT Journey</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I just got out of the shower where I spent a good bit of time savoring one of the four remaining dependable showers I&#8217;ll take.  Certainly I&#8217;ll have opportunities to shower over the course of the next year, but when and how often are unpredictable. The second time I thru-hiked the Appalachian Trail, in 1980, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Support for our American Discovery Trail Hike</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Cindy and I are busy preparing for the American Discovery Trail Humanitarian Hike starting in May 2011.  We intend to have a support vehicle, which means we need one or more support vehicle drivers over the course of the year.  Anyone interested can contact Kirk Sinclair at hiking.humanitarian (at) gmail.com. For more information about this [...]]]></description>
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		<title>ADT Thoughts</title>
		<description><![CDATA[With the new year it&#8217;s time to step up our game with planning our American Discovery Trail journey.  There are five areas of planning: Collaborating with Lions Clubs along the route Soliciting business sponsors Generating publicity for our humanitarian cause Making the journey Internet friendly Oh, yeah, and then there are the logistics of planning [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Then and Now</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I started out this site with an idea that I would comment occasionally on backpacking equipment.  The trouble is, I&#8217;m not really a &#8220;gearhead.&#8221;  I&#8217;m basically easy to please with most things material, which precludes me from making a discerning fuss about equipment.  However, I do have a perspective on how backpacking equipment has changed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Appalachian Trail &#8211; 1975 &#8211; Dejection</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last week I posted a picture of the &#8217;75 AT Expedition celebrating our &#8220;finish,&#8221; though we had to come back two weeks later to actually climb Katahdin.  Here is a picture, taken just a short time before the other one, that shows our dejection upon first hearing we could not climb. addthis_url = 'http%3A%2F%2Fwww.wildernessbackpackingtrails.com%2Fnature-photography%2Fappalachian-trail-1975-dejection'; addthis_title [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Appalachian Trail &#8211; 1975 &#8211; The End</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been digitizing old color slides.  This is one of the oldest, a group shot of the first expedition on the Appalachian Trail in 1975, taken near the end at Katahdin Stream campground.  The mountain actually was closed off that day and the group had to return two weeks later to finish our 2000 mile [...]]]></description>
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		<title>TRAIL Journey 2000 &#8211; The Housatonic River</title>
		<description><![CDATA[After reaching the New York border along the Appalachian Trail, the final leg for TRAIL Journey 2000 was canoeing down the Housatonic River from Gaylordsville to the Long Island Sound. addthis_url = 'http%3A%2F%2Fwww.wildernessbackpackingtrails.com%2Fnature-photography%2Ftrail-journey-2000-the-housatonic-river'; addthis_title = 'TRAIL+Journey+2000+%26%238211%3B+The+Housatonic+River'; addthis_pub = ''; Technorati Tags: Nature Photography, TRAIL 2000]]></description>
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		<title>Why I Hiked the Pacific Crest Trail &#8211; Final Entry</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is one of my Trail Tales.  Here are entry 1, entry 2, entry 3, entry 4, entry 5 and entry 6. We ended up with only one day available to look for logging jobs.  We filled out one application at Weyerhauser.  The receptionist asked us what kind of job we wanted and when we [...]]]></description>
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		<title>TRAIL Journey 2000 &#8211; Massachusetts AT</title>
		<description><![CDATA[After completing the Long Trail in Vermont our TRAIL Journey continued south on the Appalachian Trail through Massachusetts and Connecticut.  There are no photos of Connecticut be cause we did a &#8220;Superhike,&#8221; the entire 51 mile portion of the Connecticut trail in one day.  Here are some photos of the Massachusetts AT. addthis_url = 'http%3A%2F%2Fwww.wildernessbackpackingtrails.com%2Fnature-photography%2Ftrail-journey-2000-massachusetts-at'; [...]]]></description>
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