Will I Ever Thru-Hike Again? ...or am I completely burnt out? | Post-Thru-Hike Q&A
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Post Appalachian Trail Thru-Hike Q&A
Will I Thru-Hike a Third Time?!
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I'm a day hiker. WV tourism department came out with a "WV Waterfall Trail" System last year that encouraged people to get outside and see things that they might have otherwise never seen. When you check in at three waterfalls you get a sticker, 10 you get a water bottle, 20 you get a T-shirt! It's the most expensive t shirt I own. 😂
It took me many weekends to get to them all because i typically explored the surrounding areas. Many of them are located in state parks, or state Forest. I don't know how long that program is going to continue as it was an experiment at the time. It received overwhelming success and i hope that they keep it up. It was very fun and I thoroughly enjoyed it! Something different to consider!
I was a backpacker in the 60s and early seventies, My Wife, Job, and family occupied me till 7 years ago. Now at 73, I'm an avid day hiker in Harriman State Park and surrounding areas. You have taught me a lot. Life has changed from Dunim boots, Kelty packs, and Sierra cups. I never filtered water, wore cotton, and carried 70 pounds for a 10-day hike. I am very fortunate that I found you. Thanks for all the tips and trips. (This past summer, ecause of you, I took a two day trip up to Greylock mt. It was a lovely two days of hiking.) Good luck with whatever you do. My G-d bless you with abundance. Yaakov
Yaakov: I’m also an older hiker (older than you actually). I remember the 60s and 70s with some fondness. What is truly amazing is when I hike with my grandkids on a trail that I hiked as a teen and in my 20s, including in one instance staying at the same shelter. I still have much of my old equipment, including my Kelty pack and my Sierra cup. Starting the AT in March. Perhaps we will cross paths on a trail some day.
All the best and great success
Good luck I am a hiker too at 70. Do some yoga everyday. It really helps in hiking.
I still love using my Sierra cups! Although I don't backpack with one anymore (but I did carry a Titanium Sierra cup last summer). I bought a Kelty external frame pack four years ago....but I also don't use it for backpacking these days. Thank goodness for modern, lightweight gear! My pack nowadays weighs less than 20 pounds, is easy to carry, and I actually enjoy the hiking part of backpacking now! 😂
@@waynecolburn8849 I stretch every day, and when I go out to hike I stretch before and after. You’re right it makes a big difference.
Awesome job on the camera mom! Yes that was adorable! 😂🥰
So funny!
I agree with your mom(Kathy ❤) you were adorable 🥰. Good Q &A
Great to see ya out of the shop AND with Mom. You explain things so well. Enjoy yourselves! Great editing too. 👍👍👍
Thanks!
By this point im sure you know that all that Dunkin caffine quickly eliminates water from your body , hence the headaches & dehydration. I live & hike in the Catskills in NY. This Sept hiked the Franconia notch loop , Haystack / Lincoln / Lafayette. It was a great hike and am looking forward to more in NH next season. Enjoy all your videos , thank you for making them !
I do hope you continue to put out CZcams vlogs. By happenstance CZcams reminded me of your 2021 video of your entire through hike and I watch the first hour of it and realized why you were so appreciated in the Hikeing community and particularly in the CZcams post in community. Your videos are excellent. Your editing is superb the matter what you speak the matter in which you have yourself, you are a pro and quite understandably that you set the bar so high for other AT Thru Hikers to post vlogs. ❤😊
I just finished the section of the AT that overlaps with the Long Trail and I loved it! I also like sleeping by shelters and having company at camp and the first half of the Long Trail is perfect for that, especially in late summer/early fall. I think you’d enjoy it!
Nice cam work Mom, very professional. 😊 Can't go wrong with a Kanc backdrop. I enjoy your vlogs, so no matter your adventure, I'm there. Have fun at the half marathon! ✌️
I enjoy your more obscure hikes- like you did something once where you went to a bunch of fire towers in the same day.
That was fun! I was brainstorming new ideas like that one
Thanks for the update. You look so rested and happy. Good for you!
Picked up my mid layer for AT 2024 at Burgeon last weekend!!! 🙌🏻
Your videos are always great. Thank you.
Kanc-a-what ?
Gotta get that one down.
You're not from Massachusetts anymore. Lol 😄
The Long Trail is a lot of fun and I would definitely recommend it !
I enjoyed watching your hike again this year, thank you !
Hey Taylor
I have been following your vlogs for a year now and you are an amazing inspiration. I found your video from your 1st thru hike when I was at a very low point in life, and you have completely turned my life around. Now I am now planning my thru hike of the AT within the next 2 years. Thank you for being such an amazing inspiration to me and the hiker community, it would be an honor to meet you in person someday. you rock 😊
I hope you keep sharing hikes in the beautiful New England area, I love seeing the mountains and great views.
I enjoy your videos. You are so down to earth and tell the good and the bad. Look forward to more of your videos in the future.
Thank you Taylor (and Taylor’s Mom 🤗)!
Going to try to get up to NH and Maine next summer - can’t wait!!! ❤
LOL! Tell mom she's adorable too❤
Great q&a
I really enjoyed watching you & all your info while hiking the trail by video - so much more interesting watching by video. Thank you!!
You should do the Long Trail. More of a challenge than you’d think, especially the northern 100 miles. Consider it, it would be a superb Vlog.
I love your insight! thanks for sharing transparently!
I hope you can make a video of your half marathon plus the training. That would be inspiring for us that workout.
You have really sparked my interest in hiking and conquering the mountains where I live. A quick google shows over 60 ranked mountains over 4500 feet. I don’t know if I’ll live long enough to finish! 😢😂
I feel your weird head drama for those 83 miles. I recently dropped out of an 80+ mile hike 2 miles from the finish. I know I could not have finished, but it niggles at me. I have never not finished a hike before. I really enjoyed watching your videos and hope you keep making more.
Äm looking forward to any other hikes y’all go on! Good Travels and Blessings! ☮️
Ultramarathons on trail are kinda fun. I loved being in the wolds and not racing the clock.
I hiked Arethusa falls and frankenstein cliff in 2022. It was in late June I think and there was a drought. Hardly any water on the falls
Good luck 👍 on whatever the future holds 🙏🙂
Can’t wait to see your future videos Taylor!!! You are awesome!!! 😊👍👏🏻
may have to wait until she's 65 (like us) to see another thru-hike
Well, George, I don’t know if I’m gonna be around when I’m 100 to watch her do another through hike!!!☹️😭😭😭😭😭😭😭
TAYLOR! George and I have decided that at our age you better do another through hike for sure within the next 10 to 15 years so we can see it…… not sure if I’ll be able to watch you on CZcams in heaven????
*_Hello Taylor..., I really hope you don't have to stop climbing, adventure doesn't have to involve climbing mountains, but I hope you will continue to exist climbing mountains.... Greetings from Indonesia_*💯👌👍
Thanks for a great video! I enjoy your content
You are a huge inspiration! Thank you for all the positivity you put out into the world 🏔️
I ordered some LMNT and it arrived last week. Not sure I need it during the winter since I do short walks but looking forward to trying it out in the summer
My vote for the next thru-hike is the Long Trail.
Please consider doing The Flying Pig marathon here in Cincinnati in May. It’s great fun I hear. My daughter does the half marathon .
Do a video of all your zero days!!!! That’ll be pretty cool!. I found you on YT, I
Was watching something about the AT and got curious being from Hawaii, and came upon your whole AT video, it was so great!!!! I loved it, so glad I got recommended to your channel!!! I also loved your and Cody’s friendship!! I also watch his channel😂. But I’ve been keeping up with all you videos since discovering it. Anyways keep posting more videos and hopefully we get too see more videos of you and Cody hiking together!!! Much love from Hawaii🤙
I agree with your mom!
Hey Taylor, got a question and not sure there is an answer lol. After completing a thru hike like the AT, to me, it seems many kind of keep chasing that feeling again from that epic thru hike. Many do other thru hikes and such. How difficult has that been, having already done your first epic thru hike? Do you find yourself sort of chasing the blazes trying to get that feeling back? And then getting disappointed when you go out there, hike your ass off, but dont get the reward of that feeling again? Seems a memory like that first thru hike is chased a lot from former thru hikers. Your opinion?
Love your Mom: “that was adorable!” ❤ - Chica
the momma is adorable 🥺
Hi Taylor I watched your A.T hike. Definitely enjoying and learned a lot. I was just wondering did you or would you like to do knifes edge off Katadin.
From an environmental point of view: taking long distance flights just to do a marathon and stay only a few days is insane. Please consider your environmental footprint for traveling. Climate change is something we all have to consider. Especially people who love being outdoors - we can see the changes happen already and it's scary
Sounds like someone needs to get a life….🙄🙄🙄
Environmental footprint for traveling??? Seriously??? She WALKED from Georgia to Maine & a carbon footprint doesn’t get any lower than that 😂😆🤣
I’ve never rolled my eyes harder than this
Happy Halloween! 👻🧙♀️Good to see you
Have you tried the Mt.Washington Road Race? They advertise that there's only one hill, 7.6 miles.
I love your mom
you close to portsmouth such a pretty state what i saw of it
Next Spring//summer you and Cody and Chad your mom and Aunt?? canoe/kayak the Mississippi. "Sea to Source" MN to the Gulf ???
Camino De Santiago. Give it a consideration
20 seconds in you said ypu was off the Kancamagus Highway. As a Massachusetts resident who hikes in the Whites i am always confused as to why people pronounce it with an extra "n" before the "g". My mother took us for a ride there when they first paved it and I remembered it as Kancamangus until I started hiking the NH48 in my early 70s. Do all locals pronounce it that way?
Born and bred in NH and it’s just the way we pronounce it. Or Kanc for short.
Anyways who cares? HYOH! 🙌🏻😀
Taylor what would be your favorite Virginia AT hike, location wise? Thanks Mike
I would love to hike the SNP section again!
What about bringing a packraft to cross that river? Or build a raft from some logs...
Is there a Dunkin doughnuts at the end of your half marathon?
I don't think you are burnt out just do other trails go out west
Fleets.
I think its time to start a family, if you want one, then you can hike later.
A local hostile has a powerboat and will take you across
FLEET.
Completely unrelated to this video I want to say that it is kind of common nowadays to thru-hike as a family. Even when the kids are not that old.
First!😂
Yay!
I’m always waiting on you to drop a vid kid! 🤣👍👏🏻❤️
Unfortunately the world is a different place now. After years of hiking the AT, I wouldn't recommend hiking the AT alone for any woman or maybe anyone now. 🙁
How come?
❤ Hey Taylor 🎉🎉🎉🎉 you are always such a blessing.thank you for your stand.📸Go Taylor 😎
@@TaylortheNahamshaHiker Taylor, for reasons of personal safety. For 15 years most locals here between WVA, MD and into PA have warned to not to hike alone, and to be trained in self defense. There are many homeless camps in the woods, off the main trail, many stalkers. I've seen them myself. Thank you for your videos, I'm a long time subscriber and have great admiration for you.
@@mary-ue4irI'm still safer on trail than I am walking in a city or even being at work (in an urban ER). I'm more likely to be assaulted at work than someone in law enforcement. I'm nearly 1000 times more likely to be murdered *not on trail* than I am on trail. It's not worth doing nothing because I don't have someone to do stuff with - I don't have that luxury. Otherwise I'd never leave the house.
@@omglolwots I'm sorry you feel that way, I'm not trying to fear monger you at all. I'm truthfully sharing what people local to me all know and have taken precautions about for many years. It seems you have a lot of street smarts so that's in your favor. For 24 years I have hiked and literally lived less than 10 minutes from 3 different access points to the AT and within 25 minutes to 3 or 4 more. I never said it's not worth doing, and it makes me sad that you don't have a hiking partner. If you are near to this location WVA, MD, PA check out Harpers Ferry and Sheperdstown, WVA , the outdoor shops and river rafting and I'm pretty sure you'll meet some nice people to hike with year round. I hope you do get a chance to come out of the city from what's probably a very stressful job and reconnect with nature. Maybe you can relocate. We always need healthcare professionals out this way. There's a huge medical complex in nearby Hagerstown, MD. Then you'll already be here!
I think u where to concerned with getting to hotels to watch survivor. I found your trip boring...u never showed the trail, just ice cream, hotels, walmarts.... u just quit.... no excuses...u just quit.... do us true thru hikers a favor... stop posting...
If you don't like the videos, then why are you still here?
@ronmyers419-Wow! I feel sorry for you, as you must be very unhappy to write such mean-spirited comments….Shameful as you must not watch her videos! In fact, I’m going to take a guess here and say you don’t watch them do you????????🙄 I am quite positive after watching Taylor hike for years now that she would leave your a** in the dust on ANY through hike..But don’t feel bad she would leave most of us in the dust…..
Lol you are not burned out. Far from it.
I'm not?
@beingaware8542 In my personal opinion I think Taylor actually is burnt out a little bit… On through hiking only and not day hiking though..
Not a big fan of "burnt out" maybe been there and done that? i've been to a favorite music festival eight times, loved it but need something new. Like reading a book sometimes when you finish it you wish you hadn't read it so you can start over again. I do a lot of 6-8 year cycles where you're really into something but you eventually need something new and different.
@@TheJhtlag True!👍
You are too young to know what you’ll ever do again. Even some of the stupid stuff that you really know you won’t do . Lol
I can see how burnout can happen when your in nature but all your efforts are in becoming detached from nature and prioritize a cash flow.
I get to work outside, which is great!
Maybe the burnout would be worse if I went to an office everyday
I disagree RichRich…I think her love for nature is pretty apparent in all of her videos…
You never actually hiked it in the first place.
I've never actually stepped foot on the AT
What Kind of question is that what do you mean I've been following Taylor a few years now and she is hardcore professional hiker for real
@@TaylortheNahamshaHiker what is wrong with your subscribers 😂😂