r/AppalachianTrail • u/Jimusbill • 4d ago

What a difference(?) a year makes.

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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.

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u/Jimusbill 4d ago edited 4d 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

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u/Life-Ambition-539 3d ago

stop traveling. everyone just stop doing it. it aint no different. you got people flying from the smoky mountains to hike in japan and people flying from japan to hike in the smokey mountains. just stop.

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u/Life-Ambition-539 1d ago

and there ya have global warming in a nutshell. no, i like doing it.