The current plan is to head out on the trail just after the Vikings` 2010 Superbowl victory (even on the off chance they do not win) and get back to the concrete jungle in time to start the fall semester at college. That gives me about 16 months to prepare.
I plan to do what is called thru-hiking the trail which is to do the entire 3500 km in one season. According to Wikipedia this takes 5- 7 months and ain`t easy. In recent years the completion rate of registered thru-hikers has gone up to almost 30%. So less than 1 in 3 people who set out finish the journey and less than 10,000 people have done it since the trail was built in the 1930`s.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appalachian_Trail
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