Appalachen – Between 2 Poles

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Massanutten Mountain Trail

Juli 20, 2025

Spending time in the shoulder or off-season in the Appalachians is much more appealing to me than hiking there in summer. Summers under the canopy of the Appalachians‘ mostly deciduous trees are pleasant and shaded, but it is also quite humid and stuffy. Having hiked the Benton Mackeye Trail in April and June back in 2019, and having done numerous day hikes along the US-American East Coast in summer, gave me a pretty good impression of the specific challenges hiking in this region, beyond the continuous ups and downs of the rolling mountains.

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Back on the Benton MacKaye Trail

Juni 26, 2019

A thru-hike is only a thru-hike if you actually thru-hike. That’s why we headed back south to finish hiking the Benton MacKaye Trail in the Appalachian Mountains. Unfortunately in April we had to leave the trail about half way in as John injured his back.

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Shenandoah National Park

Januar 31, 2020

Roadtripping and hiking is a combination I really like. Life in times of the epidemic, part II: In times when having to practice physical distancing, being away from your loved one, having to spend a lot of time inside (I am with my parents in Germany at the moment) it is a good opportunity to catch up on writing some stuff and sharing stories. Let me take a look back to earlier in the year … The more often I go, the more I like the Appalachians. I am not gonna hide: I love wild, rough, spectacular, remote mountains. Mountains,…

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Benton MacKaye Trail – Fazit

Februar 27, 2019

After having hiked intensively on the US West Coast it was time to explore the East Coast a bit further. No, I haven’t hiked the Appalachian Trail, not yet, not this time. But my partner and me hit the Benton MacKaye Trail. This is an about 300 mile long trail that shares its southern terminus with the Appalachian Trail, intersects with it a couples of times, but then makes its way north-west instead of following the AT to the north-east. It winds its way up and down the Appalachians through Georgia, Tennessee and North Carolina.

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Appalachian Mountains

Mai 21, 2019

Travelling along the Appalachian Mountains after having had to leave the Benton MacKaye Trail.

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Benton MacKaye Trail: Vorbereitung

Februar 22, 2019

… fiel die Wahl schnell auf den Benton Mackaye-Trail, der im Süden der Appalachen über knapp 300 Meilen verläuft. Er bietet genau das, was wir suchen: einen überschauen Trail, den man in maximal 3,5 bis 4 Wochen erwandern kann, keine Massen – die überwältigende Mehrheit der Wanderer wird man in dieser Zeit auf dem mehr oder weniger parallel verlaufenden Appalachian Trail finden – und ein tolles Naturerlebnis.