I hiked these trails with my friend, Wind­song, and my dog Yoni. How­ev­er, we had an unex­pect­ed addi­tion in Vir­ginia. We found a sick dog, which we named Ottie. We car­ried him out of the woods and to a vet. Four days lat­er he was walk­ing, recov­ered, and hik­ing with us the rest of the way. He now has a great home with Wind­song. We start­ed at Springer Moun­tain, Geor­gia on April 15, 2003 and fin­ished hik­ing on Novem­ber 7, 2003. We orig­i­nal­ly did not know about or intend to hike the IAT. But, when we heard about it at Trail Days in Dam­as­cus, VA, we couldn’t resist see­ing cari­bou, whales, and being sur­round­ed by a com­plete­ly dif­fer­ent lan­guage. We had to flip-flop from Bear Moun­tain, NY up to Cap Gaspe, QC because part of the trail in Que­bec clos­es in Sep­tem­ber. This hike, over 2,800 miles just hap­pened to be in one of the wettest years on record, but it was still awesome. 

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