Hey Spielberg, it’s Bigfoot. We hiked out of Fontana Dam together. Thank you for putting these videos up. I miss that trail every day and am so grateful for all the people I met there.
Hey Bigfoot! So great to see your name, and I remember hiking out of Fontana Dam with you well…then we ran into each other again in Maine. I miss it, too, even being on the PCT and loving it, there is something special about the AT. Hope all is well and that our paths cross again in the future
Meeting you was one of the highlights of my trip. You create a wonderful story through images and words with each new video leaving me in awe. Congratulations, my friend!
Hey Tom! I’m going through old comments that I somehow missed and came across this one from you. I hope you are well and that you’re still hiking. Last I remember you were working for the airlines and getting to travel all over. Anyway, hope all is well!
Great video. I don't want to spoil it with a silly comment, but thanks again for taking the (lots and lots of) time to film your thru-hike so that the rest of us could experience it with you vicariously. When I think of all the time you must have spent setting up your camera then returning for it after you got the shot--well, you probably did the AT twice! Again, well done ...
I'm finally able to catch up on my last video's comments. Thank you, again, for all of your support -- you were one of the most supportive, and it was so appreciated. See you on the trail!
Evan's Backpacking Videos I hope to see some of you on the trail someday when I make my way that direction. Awesome video! There are so many great ones on YT.
I work at pen mar park which the at goes through . l have meet hikers from japan england portigal germany spain australia africa franch l meet hikers from all over the world.
You lived our dream! We could have/should have in March 2006. Our retirement turned into us becoming caregivers and now we can’t imagine sleeping in anything other than our comfy king bed! Great shots!!! Congratulations
Very well made. I love the fact that you had to set up your camera, walk through the shot, and go back and get your camera. A lot of extra effort. Must have added a few miles to your hike too.
Never commented on a TH-cam video before ...but this one deserves it. Watched you from beginning to end and the series was amazing. Simply the best AT video set out there. Well done young man!
I'm finally able to catch up on my last video's comments. Thank you so much for following my adventure on the AT and for sending this comment -- it really meant a lot to me, particularly being the first person you've ever commented to on TH-cam. Thanks again!
@@alanzuhaus it's all about definition, you can Google, not my quote. "The Appalachian Trail Conservancy describes the Appalachian Trail as the longest hiking-only trail in the world."
@@luistiagorico3187You are right in that case, but You didn't mentioned it. The keyword is "hiking ONLY trail" !!! What means there are no wheels like bikes or wheel chairs or buggys allowed to save the Trail and soil. That makes the difference! (German saying: Who can read has an advantage.🤣)
Spielberg, I know this is dated, but I wanted to thank you so much for the care in which you took making all of these videos. Your honestly is amazing. For the last couple months, I have been watching all of your videos in the morning as I have used various cardio gym equipment. I have been following other hikers vlogs and blogs and trail journals for years. Yours rates as one of the very best. I have hiked several week long adventures on the AT which happens around once a year since I live in Phoenix. I share the dream of many to complete a thru to hike, but it will have to wait until the class of 2025 when I retire. I hope one day you will be watching my Vlog as I touch that sign on Katahdin. So many of you who I have watched have taught me physical and mental aspects of the trail. I literally had tears watching you touch that sign, but honestly, it happens every time I see someone I have followed on videos or books I have read summit Katahdin. You seem like a wonderful human being and I hope you are doing well. Thank you for sharing your journey-Turk
Thank you so much, Turk! It really means a lot to hear that, and to know that people are still watching and finding value in the videos. You're the first I've heard that watched them while on cardio machines -- I'm going to have to try that! I hear what you mean about seeing people touch that sign on Katahdin -- I always did and still get emotional when I see anyone on that final assent to the sign. The whole journey is the most important and transformational one in my life, and I wish that for you! 2025 will be here before you know it...and, metaphorically, you're already on the trail and your thru hike. In retrospect, I learned that the years leading up to my thru hike of research, planning, reading, gear testing and practice hiking were some of the best parts of the entire journey -- enjoy this time! And please feel free to reach out if you have any questions or anything that you think I can help with -- and definitely let me know if you Vlog your hike so I can support you on your way to Katahdin. All the best for a wonderful Christmas! Craig "Spielberg"
I'm finally able to catch up on my last video's comments. Thank you, David, for following my adventure and for this wonderful comment -- it really meant a lot to me!
I loved this video. I honestly miss the AT. I summited Mt. Katahan in 2020 (the only year that the ATC did not recognize 2000-Milers) and made the cover of our town paper for hiking it as an honor for the 461 men who died in my Vietnam war unit. Beautiful video.
Please Lord, let me follow the path of this gentleman one day through this trail before I grow too fragile and ill to do it. Ever since I visited Northern Georgia I have dreamed on keep walking all the way to that wilderness up to Maine. What an inspirational video. I am going to subscribe to see the details of this journey. Safe travels friend.
Ever since I started following you in Spring, I looked forward to your updates, and enjoyed each viewing as a special moment of serenity in an otherwise frenetic world. I will truly miss that. But thanks for always reminding us, as you reminded yourself, of the blessings of good health and of our beautiful world. Thanks, also, for all the extra time and effort that you put into producing these uniquely insightful videos about a great trail!
Craig, I have watched this video 100+ times. I still feel so moved at the end. We leave around February 15th for Springer. You have been one of my biggest motivations. Thank you so much for sharing your experience with the hiker community! Blessings! I would be honored if you followed us!
The prefect video to end the series. Congratulations on finishing with your journey. It was beautiful and inspirational and I am glad you decided to share this part of your life with all of us "Armchair Thru-hikers"
Found ur CDT vids so I’m backtracking. Will watch ur PCT next which I completed in 2015. Quality vlogs like yours help keep my hiking enthusiasm cup full. At 74 & after 7k miles, that’s important since I see no end In spending time in the wilderness. Thx for ur contribution.
I’ve lived right next to the AT my whole life (Roanoke, VA) and have been on parts of it quite a few times, eventually i hope to do the whole thing, but that will be in a long time for me
My husband and I watched you from beginning to end and thoroughly enjoyed all the insight into the joys as well as the hardships. I have to say the quality of your video footage far surpasses any others I have seen. We are in Chattanooga, TN and have the dream to do the trail...probably after retirement. You definitely m!ade that itch worse! I look forward to your future updates.
Thanks Luis! I hope you are able to get out there and have the great adventure that the AT provides. I'm glad I could boost your spirits and really appreciate that you took the time to tell me. Best of luck, and keep me posted.
Congrats, Craig! Did I really watch more than 10 hours of your videos over the last few months? Enjoyed (nearly) every minute. Thanks for taking us along for the ride.
Congratulations on yet another job well done, and thank you so very much for sharing your journey with us. I hope you plan to keep your videos up on you tube..?
I'm finally able to catch up on my last video's comments. Thank you, again, for following my adventure and for your support along the way! I am planning on keeping them up for as long as TH-cam will allow. Thanks again!
Bonsoir Craig, You did make me cry and I want to thank you for all the beautiful videos you took. You allowed us to travel and feel what the AT was and is. Thank you so much for sharing with each of us your outstanding and unforgettable experience of a lifetime.
Congratulations on completing the trail and for doing such an awesome job documenting your journey! You have given us, by far, the best videos I've seen of the trail. Love your music choices on both this and the previous video. Many, MANY thanks for sharing this wonderful adventure with us. Looking forward to your next one. Whatever it may be, I know you'll document it well with your new found and newly honed skills as a videographer!
Craig, congratulations on completing your AT thru-hike. Your videos are the best I have seen this year and maybe of all time. My wife and I have been planning a thru-hike for the last two years and finally have the green light for our spring 2017 departure from Amicalola Falls. We have been following you since the beginning of your journey and have anticipated each new installment. Thank you for the informative and entertaining videos. We wish you all the best in your future endeavors. We'll be looking out for your PCT journey next ;) All the best, Dana and Jennifer
Spielberg - This was amazing videography and editing. NH and Maine were spectacular. I thought I was watching a movie production. This makes me want to thru hike even more. Thanks for including me in a clip (always happy not to end up on the cutting room floor - LOL). The end really captured I think the essence of your experience. It took me a while to leave a comment. I had to think about how I could put things into words. Last month I finished from VA to Duncannon, hiking Daleville to Woods Hole. I thought a lot about you and Snake hiking north as I moved south. Thanks for sharing the good, the bad, your feelings and challenges. I thoroughly enjoyed the whole series. Thanks - Evo
Craig, it's been awesome watching the videos of your AT hike. I feel like I was hiking along with you the whole way! Thanks for sharing your experience with us.When I was finishing my Thru-hike several years ago I wrote a poem while I was sitting on the picnic table next to the ranger's station with the Mt. Katahdin reflecting off of Daicey Pond. I wrote this poem. Now that you have finished the AT...I'm sure you can relate: REFLECTIONS AT DAICEY POND It started in the early spring on Georgia’s Springer mount.How many steps I’ve taken since, I couldn’t even count. We climbed great mountains, forded streams, and hiked the deepest notch.We all got blisters on our feet, and rashes in our crotch. We saw the deer, the moose and bear, the stars and yellow moon.We also heard the nighttime song of whippoorwill and loon. The trail was often difficult, with rocks and roots and logs.Sometimes we didn’t wash for weeks, we often smelled like dogs. I thought of all the city folk, so cozy in their house,while we were fighting hungry bugs and the pesky shelter mouse. I knew it would be difficult, a test of mice and men.They said the odds of finishing were only 1 in 10. We persevered, the miles flew by, and summer turned to fall.I reminisce the trail I’ll miss and things I can recall. The things that I remember most are not the rocks and trees, but all the friendships on the trail and all those memories. So here I sit at Daicey pond, reflecting on the year.I’ll hold on to those memories, of how I’ve gotten here. T-RexAlso, if you get a chance you can read my journal with pictures. Not as exciting and entertaining as your videos, but there are a few humorous parts you'll enjoy:drive.google.com/file/d/0B6aSs2MHXzeQeTgwcjJZTkg2RVU/view?ts=56dc6f51
I'm finally able to catch up on my last video's comments. Thank you, Rex, for following my adventure and for your support along the way! As so many who "liked" your comment, I really like the poem and look forward to reading your trail journal -- thanks for sending it again. I remember you sent me the link early in my adventure, but I couldn't remember which episode the link was in. Thanks again!
Hey, thanks! Glad you liked it.I wrote it while sitting on the picnic table at the ranger station at the last day of my thru hike. Lots of emotions....
i started following you back around video 4 or 5. This is some thing I plan on doing myself and picked a handful of people to follow both in 2015 and 2016. For some reason you just managed to bring out the true emotion of the hike in your videos. I have had hikes and long distance bike trips that have be great, and some not so much. but you really showed how this could be a life changing event. I can't even put into words how happy I am that you made it. Great job and thank you for letting us be part of your hike! Best of luck to you. Chris Kiger, Elkton MD
For me, these are the best videos ever. You are an amazing story teller. I'm like the child at the end of the story that begs, "One more time." I wish for one more, than one more...You were quite brave to share. Thank you for that.
I'm finally able to catch up on my last video's comments. Thank you so much, Cheri, for following my adventure and for your kind words! I really appreciate you telling me this, and I'm like that little kid, too -- I would love just one more day out there on the trail. And thank you for the comment about bravery -- much was definitely outside of my normal comfort zone for sharing, but it felt important to be honest, vulnerable and real. Thanks again!
Working from home recently and watched the sequential playlist again. Two years already since this series was published! At times while I was watching it, I could almost feel the trail beneath my feet again and smell the forest. Reminded me of what it's like to be on an adventure with like-minded people. Thanks again for this great series, Spielberg. Hope you are well.
Dear Craig, Thank you for an amazing journey. We are sitting speechless. Truly speechless. Personally, I will never see the trail again without thinking of your imagery. Or the gracious, beautiful spirit that you are. Cheryl
Craig, Cheryl posted another comment on Day 172, 173, and 174. She mentioned there were so many things you thought you would figure out on the trail and they remained unanswered. It would appear you did indeed figure many things out as you traversed the trail. Not only did you answer the tactical questions of how to survive (and indeed thrive) on the trail, you experienced first hand trail magic and you were reminded of the basic goodness that is inborn within each of us. Thank you for the teaching us how to prepare for the physical, the mental and the spiritual challenges you encountered. You've inspired our family here in GA to look at life through a new lens...compliments of you Mr. Spielberg. :-)
I have to say from the bottom of my heart, that this video you made really made a connection with me. I have always wanted to do the trail,even if it killed me,but i can't get away from my job long enough to do it. Thank you for doing this, I'll be honest, i teared up a little bit with you when you reached the end,pretty epic.
Congrats - I've watched the entire playlist over the last week or so and thoroughly enjoyed it. It has certainly cemented my thoughts on how I want to capture some of the long distance bushwalks I have planned (watching from Australia).
I am in tears! This was beautiful. I just had knee surgery and training to hike this trail w my son is my daily motivation. watching you, sharing with you the emotions is another step in my journey. Thank you!
I've watched a load of AT thruhike vlogs and this one definitely takes the palme d'or! You really do have a great talent for this - Spielberg indeed! We've followed your every step, from your initial gear purchases through to your triumph on Katahdin and you really made us feel like we were with you (which I guess we were, in a way...). I regard the whole series essential viewing for anyone preparing their own thruhike and I will stay subscribed. Many, many congratulations!
I'm finally able to catch up on my last video's comments. Thank you again, Fin, for following my adventure and for your support along the way! This comment means so much to me -- thank you for letting me know that. Makes all that work I put into them worth it.
Have been watching from the first video and have enjoyed every minute. Beautifully captured from day one and wrapping it up with this grand finale! I'm a multi day hiker form upstate New York, 29 years old. Thank you!
Great job Craig. You've truly earned and lived up to your trail name. That's the best summit and summation vlog that I've seen over the past several years while preparing for my own thru hike. I think all of us who followed your journey thru celebrated and cried with you as you touched the final sign. I love all the remembrances, the experiences shared, and your spiritual approach to the trail and how it and the people along the way have taught you many a great lesson that will last a lifetime. Thank you for sharing your amazing journey with us all!!! Stan from Staten Island
I'm finally able to catch up on my last video's comments. Thank you again, Stan, for following my adventure and for your support along the way! This comment really touched me -- thank you! I look forward to meeting you in the new year to help in any way I can for your hike. Until then, all the best -- and thanks again!
Craig, Congratulations on your hike. As a section hiker, who has completed 1840 miles to date, I was especially touched by your videos. I have followed many hikers over the years. Your videos have reminded me of the "feel" of the trail. The "quietness" of the trail. Thank you.
I'm finally able to catch up on my last video's comments. Thank you so much for following my adventure and for your kind words! Your comment about my videos reminding you of the "feel" and the "quietness" of the trail really touch me and meant a lot to hear -- thank you! You've almost completed the whole trail -- enjoy the last sections you have, and I'll see you on the trail.
I'm finally able to catch up on my last video's comments. Thank you, again, for following my adventure and for your support along the way -- your comments of support have really meant a lot to me!
I passed through Neel Gap today after visiting family in GA and was reminded that your last vlogs would be posted for viewing when I returned home to SC. Your vlogs have been simply excellent. Congratulations on the completion of your journey.
OMG Craig, that was bloody amazing this footage and will remain my favorites for a very long time. Well done. And sharing the over 4000 hikers in New Brunswick in Canada eh. I only hope that my VLOG presentation will as good as you own. While watching each video, I wondered why you had yourself in the video sequence but OMG what a master you are am in this presentation. Bravo Zulu Mate.
I'm finally able to catch up on my last video's comments. Thank you again, Adrian, for following my adventure and for your wonderful encouragement and support along the way! I'm looking forward to catching up on some of your videos now that I'm (almost) done with all of mine. Thanks again!
I'm finally able to catch up on my last video's comments. Thank you, James, for following my adventure and for your kind words! I hope to get a post trail video up next month. Thanks again!
Watching all your 175 day-footage was an amazing and inspirational experience for me. A true gift that you left for others to stumble upon. In a way akin to trail magic: an unexpected and wonderful piece of kindness that I received from you on my own trail of life. I shall cherrish having watched your films for a very long time and I am certain that from time to time I shall return to watching at least some of them. You have moved me in a multitude of different ways. I have made several resolutions in respect of my own during the course of watching. I shall hike more during my everyday life, I shall do a small thru-hike with my children this summer and I shall hike the Camino in 2019. But even more important are some of the thoughts you shared. Kindness, living now and taking risks are only some of the themes that stuck with me. Whilst one knows about these things it is so valuable to have them reinforced in such a beautiful and touching way! I am extremely grateful for every minute of footage that you shared. Thank you so much!
I'm finally able to catch up on my last video's comments. Thank you again, Deanna, for following my adventure and for your support along the way! This comment meant a lot to me -- thanks!
I'm Juan, watching you from Spain. I did Camino de Santiago twice back in 2013 & 2014, and I love your vídeos. I think you're a ver y especial person, and I can really connect with your way of thinking and living in a very easy way. You're vídeos make me really happy, and watching them I can relieve tons of beautiful things that I have unforgotten. Sadly, now I have a sarcoma in both legs, and I can't walk, but I am fighting every day and trying to cure myself with all of my heart energy. Every day I'm dreaming with complete the entire THRU hike, and watching these vídeos I have a little hope that makes me smile. Thank you for all, Craig, en España tienes una persona que te sigue y te aprecia, y a la que cada día ayudas a soñar y a luchar contra su enfermedad. Gracias.
Thank you so much, Juan! Your message meant a lot to me -- I really appreciate it. I am with you in spirit as you fight to cure yourself and live your dream of completing a thru hike. I hiked the Camino in 2013 & 2015, so maybe we met! I am sure that your memories of your Camino are strong and with you all the time. I know that my memories of the Camino bring me comfort and joy, especially during difficult times (I had a lot of memories of the Camino while hiking the AT). I hope that your memories of your pilgrimage bring you the same comfort and joy. You have made me very happy with your kind words and with sharing your story with me. Thank you, my friend. I look forward to the day that you are well and I can bring your trail magic on your thru hike.
Well done sir. From the beginning you had a different approach to the videos. Your trail name is well placed. Looking forward to the next adventure. My son is looking to do the AT this next year. Wish I could go with him.
I'm finally able to catch up on my last video's comments. Thank you so much, Marko, for following my adventure and for your kind words! I hope your son is able to take his thru hike and that you're able to get out there to hike with with him for a few days or a week or so. Thanks again!
You captured your epic journey like no other, pure inspiration! Kudos for the trail magic you provided for ER 71 yesterday. Thank you Craig for your story and perspective on one of the best long distance trails in our great country.
Hi Craig. I've been watching your videos since Day 5, they have been so beautifully done. I live in Dallas and I'm one of your 'thumbs up' fans. it has been a true privilege to experience your journey. What made your videos so special to me was your optimism, your appreciation of friendship, and how you captured the big views, and the simplistic beauty of a flower. Warmest congratulations. I look forward to your next journey!
Craig, the last week I have every minute of every video from your hike over a second time and it touched me even more. It reminded me when I begin and experience my hike in 2018 to enjoy every moment and not take anything for granted along the way. I hope I can do my videos justice. God bless brother!
Only appropriate that "Spielberg" would conclude with a "tear jerker". Along the trip your cinematography, narration and editing were superior. The finale, however, captured more AT experience in 5 minutes than National Geographic did in 1 hour. I consider myself lucky to be 1 of the 2800+ subscribers that shared your joy and pain along the way. You will be with me in '18. THANKS !!
Well done, well said! Congrats! Thanks for the extra time filming! I hiked with you this last year during lunch and it was a welcomed escape from the day to day. Best wishes and God bless you!
I finished on September 2nd and still can't process it. This video took me back and makes me want to do it all over again. It was a pleasure to meet you Spielberg and congrats on your finish. -Goose-
Craig, I started watching your hike at around day 94-95 and have been following ever since. It's been incredible watching you document your experience. I've been gobsmacked by what you are able to do with your i-Phone--you certainly have a talent that compliments your trail name. The scope, scale and spirit of the adventure really comes through in the video. Ready to see you do the Camino and JMT next...WAY TO GO, BUD!
At first I honestly thought that this was a satire on cheesy thru hiking blogging tropes. The weeping at the end, and the filming the slow reach towards the sign - from two different angles!
This is the kind of video that needs to be shared and go viral. Not only that, but Appalachian Trials should share this with their many followers as well. Congrats on the journey.
I'm finally able to catch up on my last video's comments. Thank you so much for following my adventure and for your kind words! I do hope that many more people will learn about the trail -- it's an amazing path for development and transformation. Thanks again!
Great Series. I pick 3-5 Videos to subscribe to in March. Then usually I drop down to two or three. With Highlander finding what he needed to find from the trail; it was down to just you! Awesome Job and Congratulations! It would be awesome if you did one more vid??? Would love to see how you edited your video clips on the phone for you tube. Would love to know if you used any special microphone and finally, how did you edit audio over video during the editing process. I have learned so much from you and your adventure. I hoping to do the trail myself in 2018 or 19.
Dude, that was absolutely awesome. It is so astonishing that you hiked that entire trail my man. I live in West Virginia and I cant imagine the amount of training that must take and mental fortitude to complete. Congrats man, and I am so pleased you had a great adventure brother.
Hey Craig I'm doing some trail magic and giving away one of the Katahdin replicas I make and wanted to say congrats because you have been nominated for a chance to win it!
Glad to see you back on TH-cam! I followed you and your wife back in 2015 and loved your approach to the trail and videos. I’ve bought not one, but two Katahdin signs from you early on, and I love them. So I will gratefully bow out of the chance to win so someone else can enjoy. Keep hiking and posting!
Hey Sailor! Great to hear from you, and so cool that you're teaching and going to show your class this video. Don't forget to tell them of that dive hotel we stayed in, where was it -- outside of Marion VA? Anyway, hope all is well and that you're still hiking!
I just completed your series. The concluding segment to your trail adventure was absolutely great. I think it's the best one that I've seen. You brought tears to my eyes as you completed your summit of Katahdin by mouthing, "thank you" and then reaching out to touch the Katahdin sign. I'd like to say that you are an inspiration to me, but that would require me to get equipped and get out on the trail. Unfortunately, I think at age 72, I'm too old to hit the trail. If I did go, that would be my trail name - "Too Old." The only "long" distance walking I do is pushing my golf cart four times a week up a few modest inclines between looking for lost balls in the rough. So, I just remain absolutely impressed with your will to "keep walking." Thanks so much for the beautiful views in and above the forest. Your introspective views were were also wonderful. Good luck and stay healthy on your future hiking. Perry Thorvig Minneapolis I'm a retired city planner and Boundary Waters Wilderness Canoe Area paddler. I also have a few videos on my channel of snow goose hunting (see my camo gear in the picture) and training my golden retriever. Best wishes.
First part that must be said is congratulations on your accomplishment. Second part is thank you for sharing this amazing journey. I have watched some others documentaries of the AT, but yours is by far the best i have seen. The way you captured each of your videos and showed the ups and downs and the struggles and the rewards were in such a way that it completely turned the way i look at hiking and backpacking and the trails in a good way. Your videos made me take in God's country more and appreciate what we are able to do while we have the time to do it. Thank for sharing this, absolutely incredible. Be safe out there.
Yep, I do get that guys but I still think, at least for me, there would be a sadness of all the planning, all the struggling, all the camaraderie, and all the dream of completing the AT coming to an end. It won't stop me from doing it when the time is right but I've got to reconcile that concern. You can see the emotion in Craig when he says "I can see it". The excitement of achievement can be tempered by the sorrow of...it's over.
Spielberg, thanks so much for the videos. I also thruhiked in 2016, about a month before you. I started on January 27 and completed on July 27. My trail name was Christmastree. I took a few breaks for various reasons. Watching your video was like being back on the trail. I live in the Adirondacks and hike often, but I feel like the AT is calling me back again. Thanks for the memories. Christmastree
I’m 80 now and it’s too late for me. I used to hike in the Whites and have always dreamt of hiking the AT. Thanks for taking me on your journey, it was great.
3 words come to mind...SUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL !! 'nuf said! :) OOPPPS ! It occurs to me that Robert Redford will realize that your AT film is better than his. Ha ! Ha !
Craig, I found you through a search for gear videos months and months ago. Never did or could I have imagined what an amazing journey you would bring me along on. Thank you and my very best wishes.
At the end he had to walk all the way back because he didn’t remember if he locked the car or not
That's a real knee-slapper
I did that on stone mountain. What a drag to have to walk back down again.
LOL
You make da funny
No big deal. It's only 5 minutes.
*me sitting eating a bag of hot cheetos*
"I could totally do that"
Do you go to cmm perhaps
@@lizard0750 What's CMM? also my comment was meant to be a joke lol
it's not that hard, you just have to not have shit to do for a few months. must be nice.
Lol me too
You literally could, anyone of any body type can pick up hiking, you just need free time
Hey Spielberg, it’s Bigfoot. We hiked out of Fontana Dam together. Thank you for putting these videos up. I miss that trail every day and am so grateful for all the people I met there.
Hey Bigfoot! So great to see your name, and I remember hiking out of Fontana Dam with you well…then we ran into each other again in Maine. I miss it, too, even being on the PCT and loving it, there is something special about the AT. Hope all is well and that our paths cross again in the future
Meeting you was one of the highlights of my trip. You create a wonderful story through images and words with each new video leaving me in awe. Congratulations, my friend!
Hey Tom! I’m going through old comments that I somehow missed and came across this one from you. I hope you are well and that you’re still hiking. Last I remember you were working for the airlines and getting to travel all over. Anyway, hope all is well!
Great video. I don't want to spoil it with a silly comment, but thanks again for taking the (lots and lots of) time to film your thru-hike so that the rest of us could experience it with you vicariously. When I think of all the time you must have spent setting up your camera then returning for it after you got the shot--well, you probably did the AT twice! Again, well done ...
I'm finally able to catch up on my last video's comments. Thank you, again, for all of your support -- you were one of the most supportive, and it was so appreciated. See you on the trail!
Craig M - Spielberg sure will brother!
Evan's Backpacking Videos I hope to see some of you on the trail someday when I make my way that direction. Awesome video! There are so many great ones on YT.
I work at pen mar park which the at goes through . l have meet hikers from japan england portigal germany spain australia africa franch l meet hikers from all over the world.
You lived our dream! We could have/should have in March 2006. Our retirement turned into us becoming caregivers and now we can’t imagine sleeping in anything other than our comfy king bed!
Great shots!!! Congratulations
Very well made. I love the fact that you had to set up your camera, walk through the shot, and go back and get your camera. A lot of extra effort. Must have added a few miles to your hike too.
Never commented on a TH-cam video before ...but this one deserves it. Watched you from beginning to end and the series was amazing. Simply the best AT video set out there. Well done young man!
I'm finally able to catch up on my last video's comments. Thank you so much for following my adventure on the AT and for sending this comment -- it really meant a lot to me, particularly being the first person you've ever commented to on TH-cam. Thanks again!
Having recently walked for 9 days to Santiago , Spain, this looks like a monumental challenge. Than you for a most inspiring video.
This is the longest trail in the world, about 3500km. A true lifetime experience. On my bucket list to be able todo some of it!
@@luistiagorico3187 it's actually the American premititer trail
@@luistiagorico3187 it is definetly no the longest trail in world
Tjre are 3 longer in the US and one of the longest is about 7500 km in Italy.
@@alanzuhaus it's all about definition, you can Google, not my quote. "The Appalachian Trail Conservancy describes the Appalachian Trail as the longest hiking-only trail in the world."
@@luistiagorico3187You are right in that case, but You didn't mentioned it. The keyword is "hiking ONLY trail" !!! What means there are no wheels like bikes or wheel chairs or buggys allowed to save the Trail and soil. That makes the difference! (German saying: Who can read has an advantage.🤣)
Spielberg, I know this is dated, but I wanted to thank you so much for the care in which you took making all of these videos. Your honestly is amazing. For the last couple months, I have been watching all of your videos in the morning as I have used various cardio gym equipment. I have been following other hikers vlogs and blogs and trail journals for years. Yours rates as one of the very best. I have hiked several week long adventures on the AT which happens around once a year since I live in Phoenix. I share the dream of many to complete a thru to hike, but it will have to wait until the class of 2025 when I retire. I hope one day you will be watching my Vlog as I touch that sign on Katahdin. So many of you who I have watched have taught me physical and mental aspects of the trail. I literally had tears watching you touch that sign, but honestly, it happens every time I see someone I have followed on videos or books I have read summit Katahdin. You seem like a wonderful human being and I hope you are doing well. Thank you for sharing your journey-Turk
Thank you so much, Turk! It really means a lot to hear that, and to know that people are still watching and finding value in the videos. You're the first I've heard that watched them while on cardio machines -- I'm going to have to try that! I hear what you mean about seeing people touch that sign on Katahdin -- I always did and still get emotional when I see anyone on that final assent to the sign. The whole journey is the most important and transformational one in my life, and I wish that for you! 2025 will be here before you know it...and, metaphorically, you're already on the trail and your thru hike. In retrospect, I learned that the years leading up to my thru hike of research, planning, reading, gear testing and practice hiking were some of the best parts of the entire journey -- enjoy this time! And please feel free to reach out if you have any questions or anything that you think I can help with -- and definitely let me know if you Vlog your hike so I can support you on your way to Katahdin. All the best for a wonderful Christmas!
Craig "Spielberg"
Thanks for the beautiful video! Made my day!
This may be the best AT videography of the year. You lived up to your trail name.
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I'm finally able to catch up on my last video's comments. Thank you, David, for following my adventure and for this wonderful comment -- it really meant a lot to me!
Lol -- thanks Jamie!
Totally agree!
I loved this video. I honestly miss the AT. I summited Mt. Katahan in 2020 (the only year that the ATC did not recognize 2000-Milers) and made the cover of our town paper for hiking it as an honor for the 461 men who died in my Vietnam war unit. Beautiful video.
Please Lord, let me follow the path of this gentleman one day through this trail before I grow too fragile and ill to do it. Ever since I visited Northern Georgia I have dreamed on keep walking all the way to that wilderness up to Maine. What an inspirational video. I am going to subscribe to see the details of this journey. Safe travels friend.
I had a feeling this video existed, and here it is. Incredible footage.
Ever since I started following you in Spring, I looked forward to your updates, and enjoyed each viewing as a special moment of serenity in an otherwise frenetic world. I will truly miss that. But thanks for always reminding us, as you reminded yourself, of the blessings of good health and of our beautiful world. Thanks, also, for all the extra time and effort that you put into producing these uniquely insightful videos about a great trail!
Craig, I have watched this video 100+ times. I still feel so moved at the end. We leave around February 15th for Springer. You have been one of my biggest motivations. Thank you so much for sharing your experience with the hiker community! Blessings! I would be honored if you followed us!
The prefect video to end the series. Congratulations on finishing with your journey. It was beautiful and inspirational and I am glad you decided to share this part of your life with all of us "Armchair Thru-hikers"
Congratulations. Awesome scenery. Thank you for sharing.
Found ur CDT vids so I’m backtracking. Will watch ur PCT next which I completed in 2015. Quality vlogs like yours help keep my hiking enthusiasm cup full. At 74 & after 7k miles, that’s important since I see no end In spending time in the wilderness. Thx for ur contribution.
So glad you found my channel and are enjoying my hikes! Like you, I see no end in spending time in the wilderness
I’ve lived right next to the AT my whole life (Roanoke, VA) and have been on parts of it quite a few times, eventually i hope to do the whole thing, but that will be in a long time for me
And the Brian laundrie hunt takes me here lol
Sameeeeee
Me too
Me too!
Ya let’s all go find that idoit
Same!
Thanks taking the time and effort to document and share. I occasionally use it as a bandaid.
My husband and I watched you from beginning to end and thoroughly enjoyed all the insight into the joys as well as the hardships. I have to say the quality of your video footage far surpasses any others I have seen. We are in Chattanooga, TN and have the dream to do the trail...probably after retirement. You definitely m!ade that itch worse! I look forward to your future updates.
Brother great video! I really have plans to hit the trails next year with Gods help, and watching your video boosted my spirits!
Thanks Luis! I hope you are able to get out there and have the great adventure that the AT provides. I'm glad I could boost your spirits and really appreciate that you took the time to tell me. Best of luck, and keep me posted.
Congrats, Craig! Did I really watch more than 10 hours of your videos over the last few months? Enjoyed (nearly) every minute. Thanks for taking us along for the ride.
Congratulations on yet another job well done, and thank you so very much for sharing your journey with us. I hope you plan to keep your videos up on you tube..?
I'm finally able to catch up on my last video's comments. Thank you, again, for following my adventure and for your support along the way! I am planning on keeping them up for as long as TH-cam will allow. Thanks again!
Beautiful footage und music! :-)
Loved especially the part when you where near to tears at Katahdin!
st3vie Thank you!
Bonsoir Craig, You did make me cry and I want to thank you for all the beautiful videos you took. You allowed us to travel and feel what the AT was and is. Thank you so much for sharing with each of us your outstanding and unforgettable experience of a lifetime.
Congratulations on completing the trail and for doing such an awesome job documenting your journey! You have given us, by far, the best videos I've seen of the trail. Love your music choices on both this and the previous video. Many, MANY thanks for sharing this wonderful adventure with us. Looking forward to your next one. Whatever it may be, I know you'll document it well with your new found and newly honed skills as a videographer!
This is great..I just can't help but laughter at each scene knowing you have to cut and hustle back to stop filming
Craig, congratulations on completing your AT thru-hike. Your videos are the best I have seen this year and maybe of all time. My wife and I have been planning a thru-hike for the last two years and finally have the green light for our spring 2017 departure from Amicalola Falls. We have been following you since the beginning of your journey and have anticipated each new installment. Thank you for the informative and entertaining videos. We wish you all the best in your future endeavors. We'll be looking out for your PCT journey next ;)
All the best, Dana and Jennifer
Thanks for the ride, glad that you finished, but sad that the videos are over for now. Congratulations on completion!!!
Spielberg - This was amazing videography and editing. NH and Maine were spectacular. I thought I was watching a movie production. This makes me want to thru hike even more. Thanks for including me in a clip (always happy not to end up on the cutting room floor - LOL). The end really captured I think the essence of your experience. It took me a while to leave a comment. I had to think about how I could put things into words. Last month I finished from VA to Duncannon, hiking Daleville to Woods Hole. I thought a lot about you and Snake hiking north as I moved south. Thanks for sharing the good, the bad, your feelings and challenges. I thoroughly enjoyed the whole series. Thanks - Evo
You are very lucky to be able to do that, wow what an experience. Amazing
Craig, it's been awesome watching the videos of your AT hike. I feel like I was hiking along with you the whole way! Thanks for sharing your experience with us.When I was finishing my Thru-hike several years ago I wrote a poem while I was sitting on the picnic table next to the ranger's station with the Mt. Katahdin reflecting off of Daicey Pond. I wrote this poem. Now that you have finished the AT...I'm sure you can relate:
REFLECTIONS AT DAICEY POND It started in the early spring on Georgia’s Springer mount.How many steps I’ve taken since, I couldn’t even count. We climbed great mountains, forded streams, and hiked the deepest notch.We all got blisters on our feet, and rashes in our crotch. We saw the deer, the moose and bear, the stars and yellow moon.We also heard the nighttime song of whippoorwill and loon. The trail was often difficult, with rocks and roots and logs.Sometimes we didn’t wash for weeks, we often smelled like dogs. I thought of all the city folk, so cozy in their house,while we were fighting hungry bugs and the pesky shelter mouse. I knew it would be difficult, a test of mice and men.They said the odds of finishing were only 1 in 10. We persevered, the miles flew by, and summer turned to fall.I reminisce the trail I’ll miss and things I can recall. The things that I remember most are not the rocks and trees, but all the friendships on the trail and all those memories. So here I sit at Daicey pond, reflecting on the year.I’ll hold on to those memories, of how I’ve gotten here. T-RexAlso, if you get a chance you can read my journal with pictures. Not as exciting and entertaining as your videos, but there are a few humorous parts you'll enjoy:drive.google.com/file/d/0B6aSs2MHXzeQeTgwcjJZTkg2RVU/view?ts=56dc6f51
Rex Blunck Beautiful poem by the way
I'm finally able to catch up on my last video's comments. Thank you, Rex, for following my adventure and for your support along the way! As so many who "liked" your comment, I really like the poem and look forward to reading your trail journal -- thanks for sending it again. I remember you sent me the link early in my adventure, but I couldn't remember which episode the link was in. Thanks again!
T-Rex, I wanted to comment how much I love your poem about your AT hike. Enjoyed it very much. ejk
Hey, thanks! Glad you liked it.I wrote it while sitting on the picnic table at the ranger station at the last day of my thru hike. Lots of emotions....
Nice
i started following you back around video 4 or 5. This is some thing I plan on doing myself and picked a handful of people to follow both in 2015 and 2016. For some reason you just managed to bring out the true emotion of the hike in your videos. I have had hikes and long distance bike trips that have be great, and some not so much. but you really showed how this could be a life changing event. I can't even put into words how happy I am that you made it. Great job and thank you for letting us be part of your hike! Best of luck to you. Chris Kiger, Elkton MD
For me, these are the best videos ever. You are an amazing story teller. I'm like the child at the end of the story that begs, "One more time." I wish for one more, than one more...You were quite brave to share. Thank you for that.
I'm finally able to catch up on my last video's comments. Thank you so much, Cheri, for following my adventure and for your kind words! I really appreciate you telling me this, and I'm like that little kid, too -- I would love just one more day out there on the trail. And thank you for the comment about bravery -- much was definitely outside of my normal comfort zone for sharing, but it felt important to be honest, vulnerable and real. Thanks again!
Working from home recently and watched the sequential playlist again. Two years already since this series was published! At times while I was watching it, I could almost feel the trail beneath my feet again and smell the forest. Reminded me of what it's like to be on an adventure with like-minded people. Thanks again for this great series, Spielberg. Hope you are well.
Dear Craig,
Thank you for an amazing journey. We are sitting speechless. Truly speechless.
Personally, I will never see the trail again without thinking of your imagery.
Or the gracious, beautiful spirit that you are.
Cheryl
Craig, Cheryl posted another comment on Day 172, 173, and 174. She mentioned there were so many things you thought you would figure out on the trail and they remained unanswered.
It would appear you did indeed figure many things out as you traversed the trail. Not only did you answer the tactical questions of how to survive (and indeed thrive) on the trail, you experienced first hand trail magic and you were reminded of the basic goodness that is inborn within each of us.
Thank you for the teaching us how to prepare for the physical, the mental and the spiritual challenges you encountered.
You've inspired our family here in GA to look at life through a new lens...compliments of you Mr. Spielberg. :-)
I have to say from the bottom of my heart, that this video you made really made a connection with me. I have always wanted to do the trail,even if it killed me,but i can't get away from my job long enough to do it. Thank you for doing this, I'll be honest, i teared up a little bit with you when you reached the end,pretty epic.
Congrats - I've watched the entire playlist over the last week or so and thoroughly enjoyed it. It has certainly cemented my thoughts on how I want to capture some of the long distance bushwalks I have planned (watching from Australia).
I am in tears! This was beautiful. I just had knee surgery and training to hike this trail w my son is my daily motivation. watching you, sharing with you the emotions is another step in my journey. Thank you!
I hope that your knee recovers quickly and that when you get on the trail with your son that you have an amazing, transformative experience as I did.
I've watched a load of AT thruhike vlogs and this one definitely takes the palme d'or! You really do have a great talent for this - Spielberg indeed!
We've followed your every step, from your initial gear purchases through to your triumph on Katahdin and you really made us feel like we were with you (which I guess we were, in a way...).
I regard the whole series essential viewing for anyone preparing their own thruhike and I will stay subscribed.
Many, many congratulations!
I'm finally able to catch up on my last video's comments. Thank you again, Fin, for following my adventure and for your support along the way! This comment means so much to me -- thank you for letting me know that. Makes all that work I put into them worth it.
Have been watching from the first video and have enjoyed every minute. Beautifully captured from day one and wrapping it up with this grand finale! I'm a multi day hiker form upstate New York, 29 years old. Thank you!
Best video of the trail we have seen. Thanks Craig(Spielberg)
I'm finally able to catch up on my last video's comments. Thank you, Tim, for your kind words!
You brought me to tears when you attained your goal. Thank you!
The music really adds....congratulations!
Great job Craig. You've truly earned and lived up to your trail name. That's the best summit and summation vlog that I've seen over the past several years while preparing for my own thru hike. I think all of us who followed your journey thru celebrated and cried with you as you touched the final sign. I love all the remembrances, the experiences shared, and your spiritual approach to the trail and how it and the people along the way have taught you many a great lesson that will last a lifetime. Thank you for sharing your amazing journey with us all!!!
Stan from Staten Island
I'm finally able to catch up on my last video's comments. Thank you again, Stan, for following my adventure and for your support along the way! This comment really touched me -- thank you! I look forward to meeting you in the new year to help in any way I can for your hike. Until then, all the best -- and thanks again!
THANK YOU!!! I almost cried at the end. WOW!!! Great video, great hike, great ending.
I'm finally able to catch up on my last video's comments. Thank you again, Carol, for following my adventure and for your support along the way!
Craig, Congratulations on your hike. As a section hiker, who has completed 1840 miles to date, I was especially touched by your videos. I have followed many hikers over the years. Your videos have reminded me of the "feel" of the trail. The "quietness" of the trail. Thank you.
I'm finally able to catch up on my last video's comments. Thank you so much for following my adventure and for your kind words! Your comment about my videos reminding you of the "feel" and the "quietness" of the trail really touch me and meant a lot to hear -- thank you! You've almost completed the whole trail -- enjoy the last sections you have, and I'll see you on the trail.
I've watched all your videos from day one...congratulations on your accomplishment
I'm finally able to catch up on my last video's comments. Thank you, again, for following my adventure and for your support along the way -- your comments of support have really meant a lot to me!
Thanks Craig, looking forward to the next one
I passed through Neel Gap today after visiting family in GA and was reminded that your last vlogs would be posted for viewing when I returned home to SC. Your vlogs have been simply excellent. Congratulations on the completion of your journey.
OMG Craig, that was bloody amazing this footage and will remain my favorites for a very long time. Well done. And sharing the over 4000 hikers in New Brunswick in Canada eh. I only hope that my VLOG presentation will as good as you own. While watching each video, I wondered why you had yourself in the video sequence but OMG what a master you are am in this presentation. Bravo Zulu Mate.
I'm finally able to catch up on my last video's comments. Thank you again, Adrian, for following my adventure and for your wonderful encouragement and support along the way! I'm looking forward to catching up on some of your videos now that I'm (almost) done with all of mine. Thanks again!
Craig, Thank you for taking me with you and spending the time sharing your EPIC journey! Can't wait for the post trail follow-up.
I'm finally able to catch up on my last video's comments. Thank you, James, for following my adventure and for your kind words! I hope to get a post trail video up next month. Thanks again!
Bravo, well done, splendid, and congratulations.
I enjoyed following your 2016 thruhike while preparing for my own thru, which I successfully completed in 2017. Hope all is well...cheers!
Watching all your 175 day-footage was an amazing and inspirational experience for me. A true gift that you left for others to stumble upon. In a way akin to trail magic: an unexpected and wonderful piece of kindness that I received from you on my own trail of life. I shall cherrish having watched your films for a very long time and I am certain that from time to time I shall return to watching at least some of them. You have moved me in a multitude of different ways. I have made several resolutions in respect of my own during the course of watching. I shall hike more during my everyday life, I shall do a small thru-hike with my children this summer and I shall hike the Camino in 2019. But even more important are some of the thoughts you shared. Kindness, living now and taking risks are only some of the themes that stuck with me. Whilst one knows about these things it is so valuable to have them reinforced in such a beautiful and touching way! I am extremely grateful for every minute of footage that you shared. Thank you so much!
Yes, I cried. Well done. Very well done.
I'm finally able to catch up on my last video's comments. Thank you again, Deanna, for following my adventure and for your support along the way! This comment meant a lot to me -- thanks!
Hah. So did I... What an accomplishment. We walk bits & pieces of it here in NY but I can't even comprehend doing the whole thing!!!
I'm Juan, watching you from Spain. I did Camino de Santiago twice back in 2013 & 2014, and I love your vídeos. I think you're a ver y especial person, and I can really connect with your way of thinking and living in a very easy way. You're vídeos make me really happy, and watching them I can relieve tons of beautiful things that I have unforgotten. Sadly, now I have a sarcoma in both legs, and I can't walk, but I am fighting every day and trying to cure myself with all of my heart energy. Every day I'm dreaming with complete the entire THRU hike, and watching these vídeos I have a little hope that makes me smile. Thank you for all, Craig, en España tienes una persona que te sigue y te aprecia, y a la que cada día ayudas a soñar y a luchar contra su enfermedad. Gracias.
Thank you so much, Juan! Your message meant a lot to me -- I really appreciate it. I am with you in spirit as you fight to cure yourself and live your dream of completing a thru hike. I hiked the Camino in 2013 & 2015, so maybe we met! I am sure that your memories of your Camino are strong and with you all the time. I know that my memories of the Camino bring me comfort and joy, especially during difficult times (I had a lot of memories of the Camino while hiking the AT). I hope that your memories of your pilgrimage bring you the same comfort and joy. You have made me very happy with your kind words and with sharing your story with me. Thank you, my friend. I look forward to the day that you are well and I can bring your trail magic on your thru hike.
Beautiful. Made me cry with you.
Thank you, Noriko!
Thank you for taking us with you to this wonderful trip.
I'm finally able to catch up on my last video's comments. Thank you, again, for following my adventure and for your support along the way!
Well done sir. From the beginning you had a different approach to the videos. Your trail name is well placed. Looking forward to the next adventure. My son is looking to do the AT this next year. Wish I could go with him.
I'm finally able to catch up on my last video's comments. Thank you so much, Marko, for following my adventure and for your kind words! I hope your son is able to take his thru hike and that you're able to get out there to hike with with him for a few days or a week or so. Thanks again!
Beautiful!
I really want to do this but the longest hike I've ever done was 40 miles on the AT
You captured your epic journey like no other, pure inspiration! Kudos for the trail magic you provided for ER 71 yesterday. Thank you Craig for your story and perspective on one of the best long distance trails in our great country.
Mike Roberts Thanks Mike -- I really appreciate that!
Removing my comment, as I thought I was replying to ER 71.
John Walsh suspects Brian laundrie is there.
Hi Craig. I've been watching your videos since Day 5, they have been so beautifully done. I live in Dallas and I'm one of your 'thumbs up' fans. it has been a true privilege to experience your journey. What made your videos so special to me was your optimism, your appreciation of friendship, and how you captured the big views, and the simplistic beauty of a flower. Warmest congratulations. I look forward to your next journey!
Very emotional ending for you. You did a very good job in editing. I could identify each state from watching your prior videos.
I'm finally able to catch up on my last video's comments. Thank you again, Sharon, for following my adventure and for your support along the way!
Craig, the last week I have every minute of every video from your hike over a second time and it touched me even more. It reminded me when I begin and experience my hike in 2018 to enjoy every moment and not take anything for granted along the way. I hope I can do my videos justice. God bless brother!
Only appropriate that "Spielberg" would conclude with a "tear jerker". Along the trip your cinematography, narration and editing were superior. The finale, however, captured more AT experience in 5 minutes than National Geographic did in 1 hour. I consider myself lucky to be 1 of the 2800+ subscribers that shared your joy and pain along the way. You will be with me in '18. THANKS !!
Well done, well said! Congrats! Thanks for the extra time filming! I hiked with you this last year during lunch and it was a welcomed escape from the day to day. Best wishes and God bless you!
If Brian Laundrie has been hiding here then no wonder it’s taking so long to find him.
RACHE, JUST A GREAT COMMENT, I SO AGREE WITH ‘ YOU’ ! MERCI BEAUCOUP! AU REVOIR! 🇫🇷🌹💐
Thank you for sharing your adventure.
Wow man great video! Prob the best I've seen.
Thanks Jay!
I finished on September 2nd and still can't process it. This video took me back and makes me want to do it all over again. It was a pleasure to meet you Spielberg and congrats on your finish.
-Goose-
Hard to see the last 30 secs through the tears welling up in my eyes!!! 🤤🤤
Thanks, Jerry, for taking the time to let me know that!
Same reaction Brother! Every time I watch it or share it with a friend!
Craig, I started watching your hike at around day 94-95 and have been following ever since. It's been incredible watching you document your experience. I've been gobsmacked by what you are able to do with your i-Phone--you certainly have a talent that compliments your trail name. The scope, scale and spirit of the adventure really comes through in the video. Ready to see you do the Camino and JMT next...WAY TO GO, BUD!
I really need to start filming myself crying whilst hiking. No idea why I’ve never done it.
Set the camera up. Then have someone kick you in the family jewels.
At first I honestly thought that this was a satire on cheesy thru hiking blogging tropes. The weeping at the end, and the filming the slow reach towards the sign - from two different angles!
Congrats Craig and thanks for sharing your awesome adventure. God bless.
This is where I think Brian Laundrie is hiding.
i mean he def could walk it from georgia to maine
This is the kind of video that needs to be shared and go viral. Not only that, but Appalachian Trials should share this with their many followers as well. Congrats on the journey.
I'm finally able to catch up on my last video's comments. Thank you so much for following my adventure and for your kind words! I do hope that many more people will learn about the trail -- it's an amazing path for development and transformation. Thanks again!
Great Series. I pick 3-5 Videos to subscribe to in March. Then usually I drop down to two or three. With Highlander finding what he needed to find from the trail; it was down to just you! Awesome Job and Congratulations! It would be awesome if you did one more vid??? Would love to see how you edited your video clips on the phone for you tube. Would love to know if you used any special microphone and finally, how did you edit audio over video during the editing process. I have learned so much from you and your adventure. I hoping to do the trail myself in 2018 or 19.
@gbolt on a trail
@gboltonatrain did you?
Dude, that was absolutely awesome. It is so astonishing that you hiked that entire trail my man. I live in West Virginia and I cant imagine the amount of training that must take and mental fortitude to complete. Congrats man, and I am so pleased you had a great adventure brother.
Hermoso video realmente emocionante,gracias por compartir esa bella experiencia,es mi sueño lograrlo también.saludos
Hey Craig I'm doing some trail magic and giving away one of the Katahdin replicas I make and wanted to say congrats because you have been nominated for a chance to win it!
Glad to see you back on TH-cam! I followed you and your wife back in 2015 and loved your approach to the trail and videos. I’ve bought not one, but two Katahdin signs from you early on, and I love them. So I will gratefully bow out of the chance to win so someone else can enjoy. Keep hiking and posting!
I could never do this alone, will need a partner
Hey Spielberg! I'm showing your video to my classroom of middle schoolers! They're gonna love it!
-Sailor
Hey Sailor! Great to hear from you, and so cool that you're teaching and going to show your class this video. Don't forget to tell them of that dive hotel we stayed in, where was it -- outside of Marion VA? Anyway, hope all is well and that you're still hiking!
So this is where Brian Laundry is. Aight, my expectations of finding him have gone from 1 month to 1 year.
Brian is probably in his moms kitchen every night or dead.... he's not in the wild alive
Brian Laundrie inspired me to go hiking..lmao
@@Yandel21ableify barefoot too? .. with his duck feet ..I don't see him being very good at it lol
@@ItisMeMike gabby's posts indicated that she thinks he is a good hiker. I hope he is, i want him found ALIVE.
@@uyagraph same
Seeing you tear up. Wow. You have accomplished something incredible. So blessed. Love, from India.
great video! one day i'd like to do this with my girlfriend and Vizsla!
I just completed your series. The concluding segment to your trail adventure was absolutely great. I think it's the best one that I've seen. You brought tears to my eyes as you completed your summit of Katahdin by mouthing, "thank you" and then reaching out to touch the Katahdin sign.
I'd like to say that you are an inspiration to me, but that would require me to get equipped and get out on the trail. Unfortunately, I think at age 72, I'm too old to hit the trail. If I did go, that would be my trail name - "Too Old." The only "long" distance walking I do is pushing my golf cart four times a week up a few modest inclines between looking for lost balls in the rough. So, I just remain absolutely impressed with your will to "keep walking."
Thanks so much for the beautiful views in and above the forest. Your introspective views were were also wonderful. Good luck and stay healthy on your future hiking.
Perry Thorvig
Minneapolis
I'm a retired city planner and Boundary Waters Wilderness Canoe Area paddler. I also have a few videos on my channel of snow goose hunting (see my camo gear in the picture) and training my golden retriever.
Best wishes.
That was awesome!
I'm finally able to catch up on my last video's comments. Thank you, Jeremy!
First part that must be said is congratulations on your accomplishment. Second part is thank you for sharing this amazing journey. I have watched some others documentaries of the AT, but yours is by far the best i have seen. The way you captured each of your videos and showed the ups and downs and the struggles and the rewards were in such a way that it completely turned the way i look at hiking and backpacking and the trails in a good way. Your videos made me take in God's country more and appreciate what we are able to do while we have the time to do it. Thank for sharing this, absolutely incredible. Be safe out there.
My biggest fear of attempting the the AT is not failing but rather succeeding. Then what?
Always another trail my friend ...
Agreed!
Yep, I do get that guys but I still think, at least for me, there would be a sadness of all the planning, all the struggling, all the camaraderie, and all the dream of completing the AT coming to an end. It won't stop me from doing it when the time is right but I've got to reconcile that concern. You can see the emotion in Craig when he says "I can see it". The excitement of achievement can be tempered by the sorrow of...it's over.
Pacific Crest trail
Te Araroa
Spielberg, thanks so much for the videos. I also thruhiked in 2016, about a month before you. I started on January 27 and completed on July 27. My trail name was Christmastree. I took a few breaks for various reasons. Watching your video was like being back on the trail. I live in the Adirondacks and hike often, but I feel like the AT is calling me back again. Thanks for the memories. Christmastree
Watching cus of brian
Wow I truly get the sense of how this was a spiritual journey for you. It's been amazing watching you since the beginning! Thank YOU!
I'm finally able to catch up on my last video's comments. Thank you so much for following my adventure and for your kind words!
A BIG BEAR!
I’m 80 now and it’s too late for me. I used to hike in the Whites and have always dreamt of hiking the AT. Thanks for taking me on your journey, it was great.
3 words come to mind...SUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL !!
'nuf said! :)
OOPPPS ! It occurs to me that Robert Redford will realize that your AT film is better than his. Ha ! Ha !
Craig, I found you through a search for gear videos months and months ago. Never did or could I have imagined what an amazing journey you would bring me along on. Thank you and my very best wishes.