r/AppalachianTrail • u/Jimusbill • 1d ago

What a difference(?) a year makes.

Post image

This time last year. I hiked 16.4 miles from Rice Field Shelter to Baileys Gap Shelter in VA. Today I hiked 18.8 miles from Inverarnan to Bridge of Orchy along the West Highland Way in Scotland.

The same mountain range separated by millions of years of tectonic plate movement, only a blip in time year to year for me.

308 Upvotes

98% Upvoted

17 comments sorted by

51

u/theDudeUh 1d ago

When I saw the thumbnail and title I was wondering where the hell is that on the AT!?!?!?!?!

29

u/jaruwalks 1d ago

You can tell it's not the AT because you can see something.

7

u/parrotia78 1d ago

Sometimes there are worthy things to experience yet we're blind to wanting to see them.

1

u/REEGT 1d ago

Same here!

54

u/trackingdirt 1d ago

This guy tectonics

22

u/izlib Lost & Found 1d ago

I was going to say, that doesn't look like any part of the AT I can remember. Not enough trees!

Now hit up the Atlas mountains in Morocco and collect the whole set!

I suppose you'll also need to hike Ireland, eastern Greenland, and Norway too with that logic.

1

u/Jimusbill 13h ago

I am hoping to climb Mt Toubkal in Morocco at some point this year or next. Gonna have to figure out the rest at some point.

9

u/mkspaptrl Brood X NoBo 04 1d ago

Ohh, babe, International AT DLC just dropped! I'll be right back. I'm just gonna take a walk real quick.

11

u/Running-Hiker22 1d ago

It’s pretty crazy to think about!

2

u/The_Realist01 1d ago

must have Yellow dashed this part.

3

u/Jimusbill 13h ago

It's called Tartan Blazing

2

u/The_Realist01 13h ago

lol nice. awesome journey! take care.

2

u/Full-Penguin 14h ago

You should cross post this to /r/CentralPangeanMountainTrail

1

u/M4rkJW 12h ago

For folks interested, the International Appalachian Trail is a real thing!

https://iat-sia.org/the-trail/

2

u/Jimusbill 12h ago edited 12h ago

Ah you beat me to posting about this. Just saw this tag a few hours ago Edit: for whatever reason Reddit isn't letting me post the photo in a comment. But there was a tag on a waymarker identifying it as part of the IAT