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Oh my gosh as if i didnt love this video enough as it was you had me at 25:53 when you started singing Big Rock Candy Mountain!!! 😊 My mom used to always sing that to us when we were little! 💕 Made me smile big. Another fantastic video!!!! 🙂

1:06:57 is this a fucking mouth pov LMAOOOOO

Goodsong

Leaving on the 7th hopefully it's not so buggy as you guys experienced. Lifelong backpacker since I can remember. Retired now and this will be the beginning of my long trax. Thank you for the video❤

Planning my trip for this spring. Thank you for the video.

cheerz from st lawrence county ny

You’ve got God given talent absolutely Wonderful 😊💜😊💜

Well cool…I loved your guitar playing and you are a great singer as well didn’t know you also played the flute for your AT hike.😎🫶😊

Most Incredible AT I’ve ever seen…thank you for sharing this and being the bright light that you are….🫶😊🙏

it was helpful. thanks

Thank you for sharing with us your adventure on the trail absolutely beautiful

My family and I just met you and your family on the trail in Maine, congratulations to you all! ❤

Through hiking hotel rooms???

Man I can't believe you took a real ass guitar! I'm planning to go through 2026. I've been going back and forth with myself about taking one or not but after seeing you I am 100%. I been very interested in a brand called outdoor guitar. The got one that looks weatherproof. It's nylon strings though but might be the one. I am a martin guy though so that martin backpacker is always on the table. We use the same guitar strings too haha

Just finished a solo SoBo thru hike on July 27. You guys must’ve been a few days ahead (pretty sure you referred to the tornado blowdown just south of Piseco). Enjoyed watching your journey and remembering my own. A tip for black flies - a wonderful gentlemen gave me some fly strips for the back of my hat. Very satisfying to hear the buzzing stop and flip the hat around to see the growing collection of flies. Cheers

🥰 no words can replace/describe this reaction Awesome tribute / Cause

Great Video, Thanks for the review. What hostels do you recommend?

Thanks for the memories! I thru-hiked it solo in 2015. One of the best vacations I ever had! I wore a hat with Tred-Not patches on it. Never got one deer fly bite. But some evenings the patches were totally covered with buzzing deerflies, stuck in the flypaper. My wife and daughter were totally grossed out when I met them with my hat buzzing furiously! For me it was Schadenfreude: come after _my_ blood, will you? Hah! My impression of the NPT: Fairly easy terrain, but _remote_! Hundred-Mile WIlderness-.level remote. You're sometimes twenty miles from a road that you can drive on. There were entire days that I didn't meet anyone, and I could always have had a shelter to myself. But for the most part I preferred to tent. I used the shelters at Ouluska Pass, Rodney Point, Stephens Pond, and Spruce Lake #3, but tented all the other nights. That was a bunch of nights, because I planned on going slow. I discovered that I can go faster on the NPT than I can in the Catskills - I planned 8-10 mile days but found that 12-15 was more comfortable. My thru-hike turned into a three-section hike because I had to take time off - Section 1 - I fell in the river near Wanika Falls in 35° weather, and woke up a day and a half later with horrible bronchitis. I wheezed my way to Long Lake and got off trail. Section 2 - I sprained a knee about a mile north of Spruce Lake. The trip to Piseco on a sprained knee was an ordeal! I had to take six weeks off while it healed. I ran into a lot of beaver activity in completely different places from where you hit it. The Piseco trail angel wasn´t there yet in 2015. My supply box was left with the airport manager. (I picked it up, but needed to take time off). The Sacandaga Park section wasn't quite finished when I hiked, so the trail ended near the Benson town hall (You didn't have to do the rest of the road walk into Northville.) I went back a few months later to hike the new section and see the Northville arch, about a week after it went up. I was glad that the West Stony Creek ford was at epic low water! Try the Catskill section of the Long Path next! A hundred miles of world-class hiking! Allow extra time for all the rock scrambling, because there's a lot of it.

I really enjoyed your documentary. Very genuine, very good. Thanks for sharing!

You guys are totally amazing to endure such crazy conditions! Great video! You were our trail angel in NJ Marti,

Great documentary!

I have the original Inreach mini and I can use the app to send texts. Does yours not work with the app?

this video is so well done ! super enjoyed watching it thanks for sharing

Loved your documentary. Thinking about doing the same. What equipment did you use to film everything?

This is the most fun anyone can have watching an NPT video. Love to see thru hiker trash culture in the Adirondacks! 18:11 is exactly what I always say when I hear a loon

great work

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35:21 are those frog toggs?

i live in Northville and my brother has done the trip, well you made my day. funny story , cause that's what i do is tell funny stories. when he got to lp he called and said i made it come get me, i said got work today, head back in the woods i will see you tomorrow. Great video

Great video seeing you in your natural form and the music was beautifully executed. I started getting itchy😅

Is fuck the only word you know??? The family was very perceptive, I wouldn't want to camp 20 miles from you!

Springbrook distillery has fantastic bourbon. BTW, I love how this video was put together.

The only thing hikes I had ever done, Mt. Kadahdin and Mt Washington when I was in high school (53 years ago). I wish now I had the fortitude to complete that dream of completing the Appalachian Trail! The beauty of nature and the connection with life, that's what Appalachian means and hiking, is a test of patience and observations. Thanks, Slim Pickins ,enjoy loved the hike with you!

This was so good! Such a big beautiful experience you shared with us! I can’t thank you enough!!

What was the deal with Jeremy? Was he really a wanted man?

First off absolutely loved your video. Im 55 always been interested in doing the AT apparently im not getting any younger so question for you . Somewhat scared of heights that last section with the rebar in the rocks . Is it as bad and scary as it looks ?? Lol

What was your start date?

Awesome video! The Whooperwill clip reminded me of a very similar experience on my own hike in 21. The vid is definetly energizing me in preparation for my next thru next year!

Your attitude immediately changed when you decided to hike without Jeremy. Isn’t it interesting that bad influences are still prevalent when we are adults and we have to make the decision to stay away from them. By the way, thank you for making this film. I absolutely loved it! And congratulations on your achievement!

Awesome video thanks for sharing

I have seen a few docs of the AT, but yours is definitely up there as one of the best!!! A great and honest story about your experience on the trail!! Hope to do this in a few years Time!!!!

Jake, this is amazing. Is this now a documentary? Watching as much as I could. Donna Vecchione

As a NH native, I appreciate Zeacliff being the thumbnail

Great video. Great sense of humor. Prayers for everyone.

Congratulations!

thouroughly enjoyed this video, thank you for this!

Wow BC is a great testament to how to live life I wish him well

Thoroughly enjoyed this. Brought back a lot of great memories of my thru hike in ‘05 and long section (GA-PA) in ‘00. Especially that little part where you talked about Baltimore Jack (RIP). I hiked a bunch with him in 2000, absolute legend.

Absolutely my favorite AT ThruHike video. Superb. Fun, amazing music, humor and honesty. Thank You.

how much does your guitar weigh?