American Discovery Trail: Delaware to San Francisco

Hiked with a hiker who had hiked that trail in its entirety in 1 year (not taking a massive break).

He said it’s fairly standard backpacking though in the east one has to navigate around Baltimore and the D.C. areas, then WVa, Ohio, etc.. go through “natural” areas.  Having been in southern Indiana I know they have national forests around there (south of Indianapolis, Bloomington, and such).

Getting into “farm” country especially Kansas, he started to call the upcoming sheriff telling what he looked like and what he was doing.  If not getting hotel rooms, he said cemeteries were pretty quiet camps (guessing bivy style?).  Kansas in mid-summer he said was stupefyingly hot .. over 100°F walking next to dry fields (other hikers track the I-70 interstate .. where he said they likely hitch). Colorado and Utah are outdoor states, but Nevada also requires getting off the path to search for water.

Anyways what I remember from the conversations fwiw.

Been following Masochist for a while. If you can get past the talking, his trips are interesting. I recommend the Condor trail series-just a brutal hike.

I’ve been watching his videos. He’s pretty determined. I hiked across Colorado on the CDT while he was hiking across Kansas. I saw the ADT signs on posts and looked forward to seeing how it would be for him when he finally got there. I really liked the Condor Trail series since that’s my back yard. I refuse to hike that trail until it is improved. I met Masochist and Taters on the AZT when I hiked it and was able to talk to him about the Condor Trail. That was fun talking to him about it. He hikes really fast though so I had to tell him to go on ahead, I can’t keep up.

He came through town about a week ago. Showed all the traffic. Such a busy place.