How I did a Flip Flop Thru Hike on the Appalachian Trail
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 20 ก.ค. 2024
- I've had so many people ask me how I did my 2020 Appalachian Trail Flip Flop thru hike since it was so different than most past thru hikers. In this video, I give a complete breakdown of my hike and show exactly how I hiked the trail on a map and also go over how many zeros and neros I took as well as how many total days I was on the trail and how many hostels and hotels I stayed in.
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MY 2020 APPALACHIAN TRAIL THRU HIKE GEAR:
Winter Gear (Start): lighterpack.com/r/fc354d
Summer Gear: lighterpack.com/r/1oumyr
Winter Gear (Finish): lighterpack.com/r/iatmg3
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Great recap. You shaped your hike to meet your needs and as a result got the most out of it. Kudos to you - most people are afraid to think outside the box. Thanks for sharing
Braids came up with a new kind of thru-hike: the Spasm. From now on, a Spasm is a thru-hike disrupted by unexpected events pushing the conscientious backpacker to leave the trail for weeks or longer, to flip-flop, boomerang, NoBo, SoBo, Whichever-Way-Bo, for many days or weeks, resolutely knowing that there is nothing that will prevent the backpacker from completing the magical, mysterious, magnificent experience.
I started following you when you started the trail. I admire the support of your Family, I know you had to all make sacrifices. I admire your bravery to follow your dream and your strength and tenacity. I admire your ability to fight the loneliness and pain and your ability to conquer fear. I love your honesty and integrity. You have done only what I dreamed of doing. Now I’m 63 and my knees are failing me and I know in my heart I will not fulfill this dream so I have found other dreams to follow. Still, I have enjoyed every moment spent watching you and I thank you from the bottom of my heart for so unselfishly sharing your dream. 😊
Thanks so much for sharing your hike with us an the followup here. You are incredible. I havent yet viewed all ofthe thru hike, but followed along most of the way. Glad you got to full fill your dream .Thanks for allowing us to tag along and thanks to Jerry for helping you thru this incredible journey. Happy Hiking in the future,I am sure we will be seeing more amaxing videos . Happy Trails
Well done! Loved the vibes!
Congratulations!! A great hike!
Gretchen....this was an outstanding summary of the hike...best part was you did it your way...takes a lot of courage, strength, focus to accomplish what you did....really looking forward to all the “favorite “ videos...many thanks for this one!!!
GREAT description of your adventure!! Thank you.
Good Morning Braids. Thanks for sharing all your great knowledge and experience with those who of us who are prepping for our hikes (-63 days😃) Whenever I watch your videos I've got like 5 additional tabs open with the AT Interactive map, google maps, analyzing weather charts, gear, and anything you may mention (product/hostel) etc. Always learning! Cheers to you and Jerry!
My favorite pic of you and Hobs in the background🥰
Great summary! I look forward to your "greatest hits" on the trail.
Really liked hearing about your route! Very cool!
Hey Braids...so good seeing you again. Thanks for the update and this video. Looking forward to hear about your favorite things. Thanks for sharing you experience with all of us. I love the picture of you and your Husband on the wall!!
You know I was thinking, I heard your husband say he would like to hike the PCT, but that he wouldn't be able to take off more then one month to hike. Maybe you guys could think about maybe section hiking the PCT together. Just do it one month at a time, and you could still finish the entire trail in about six years. Best part you could cherry pick the weather. Time each section for the best possible weather. Maybe it could be a great adventure for the two of you. 🙂👍
This was awesome Braids. I must have totally missed it when it was published. I thoroughly enjoyed watching your journey.
Like you said HYOH. It doesn’t have to be the “typical” thru hike and is no lesser accomplishment. Continued happy trails to you. 🤘🏻🥾🏕
Oh my!!! Gretchen, Braids! How awesome this video is!! You rock!!! I watched every one of your AT hikes and couldn't hardly wait to see the next day each time. I love to watch your LIVE videos too. I also love to watch you and Jerry hike together and when he's on LIVE with you too. You made 2020 much better just from being able to actually look forward to the videos. You're an amazing hiker and my husband, Larry and I both really enjoy you and Jerry (Hobs) whether it's hikes or LIVE videos. We hope to see more LIVE videos. Thanks for all the time you put into this for everyone. You & Jerry are fabulous and wonderful people. I checked out your merchandise link and you have some really cool stuff. :)
Irregular thru hikes are the best!!! I wouldn’t change mine for anything. I really enjoyed following your hike. Great wrap up thanks.
Thanks for the explanation. I’m glad you stretched it out as long as you did because it gave me the opportunity to see things that other vloggers don’t take the time to show. It seems like to many it’s a race to beat someone else’s time or to hurry up and get back to work and home. I appreciate the time you took filming, editing and uploading videos. I hope all these videos are safely archived somewhere other than TH-cam.
Your videos are awesome. I followed your hike the entire journey. You did great on the trail and I never doubted that you would finish. Looking forward to watching more of your videos.
Editing, uploading ...... was a heck of a lot of work for as much video you put on youtube. Thanks for all that and now others might realize everything you did for the past 8 months in addition to all the hiking! Or I could say " Its Crazy" !!!!!And your favorite views on the AT will be FABULOUS!
Love that you hiked your own hike! 🙌 What an amazing journey ♡ You are AWESOME!!
Looking forward to seeing the my favorite things video. Had lots of fun following your hike this year. Good luck in the future!
I love statistics and you gave'em to all of us except for costs, which you won't reveal. I do know it cost a small fortune with all those stays. I'm not sure how my hike will unfold but I give you tons of KUDO's for finishing in a year where many of us were hunkered down not knowing how Covid would affect us. I delayed my 2020 thru hike to 2021 and will Vlog my journey as well, with our without the vaccine. I'm trying to get it but our state does not have enough vaccine available. I am in the age group where I'm allowed to get it now but nothing is available. Thanks for putting out all the effort to do your videos. John from MI
First of all love the picture of you and Jerry at Raven Rocks , on the wall. Your so gracious explaining your hike in such detail, as if you really need to give an account of your hike to others. An A.T. hike is not a test of who can stay in the woods the longest. You did what God gave us a brain for, you adapted, you worked with nature, you thought on your feet(Pun intended). You took inventory of your strengths and weaknesses and took advantage of them. Most of all you dreamed a dream and made it come true!
I have soooo been waiting for one of you thru hikers to come up with some "favorite" videos! can't wait!
First: Awesome diffuser.
Second: Love your videos.
Third: you don't seem introverted in your videos - very brave!
Fourth: Go Vols!
Awesome review! Deb
Great video great seeing you again!!!
You are awesome!!
Followed most of you hike. Thanks for allowing me to join in. Might try a hike someday. Va Frosty.
Thanks Braids!! That was awesome!!
Great video. You did a very smart hike. What was best for you! We enjoyed watching it all. Thanks.
I feel like you got to soak up what the others that sprint from one end to the other miss! Thanks for making the huge effort to produce these videos on top of hiking all day! You were a bright spot in an otherwise sucky year! Hope to see more from you in the future! Thanks again and congrats!
It is my pleasure to see you again. Actually I have just arrived home 🏡. After 20 miles long day hike in Chitral Gol National Park. Hopeful that at least this video will go viral. Anyhow trying to learn something from your videos. Lot of love and respect from a solo mountain hiker from Chitral Pakistan!
Congratulations Braids! Looking forward to your favorites, I’m section hiking, building up more as I go. I’ve learned so much already, accepting what is and making decisions day by day!
Thanks for the info on your hike.
Hiking with Braids jigsaw puzzle 2020 AT thru hike LOL. Great breakdown of your AT adventure ☮
This was great. I was confused a bit but now I know. Congratulations on your thru hike. I found it interesting that the last few days exacted some of the greatest difficulties you had during your whole hike. The trail never give you a break. I knew it would be that way and that is what happened. You endured hardships many that have thru hiked have not had to endure and you soldiered on. Thanks for sharing it with us.
I followed you from the very first step to the last. You were real, you showed us everything - good and bad and frustrating and were so wonderful to include us along the way. Thank you for all the times you went to town for us, so you could upload a video. Best wishes for wherever life takes you.
Wonderful recap of your journey! Congratulations on doing the whole trail in an unconventional way in an unconventional year. Bold and brave, independent, creative! You will cherish your memories and having the video is the most awesome souvenir.
Nice recap. You knew what to do to achieve your goal, and you adjusted your hike accordingly. I was following a couple other hikers, but I looked forward to your videos the most. They were the best representation of the experience of a through hike and the uniqueness of the trail in each state. Thanks for sharing your experience in an uncensored way.
Great video! Love your pretty diffuser in the background.
Excellent, that is a lot of ground to cover, can't wait for your 'My Favorites', have loved your journey and the way you did it & shared it, ty, ty.
Good breakdown of how you made it come together. 🌲👍
Great to see you again! Very informative video. Again, i'm very proud of you and happy to follow you on this amazing quest, Happy hiking and god bless.
Awesome breakdown of your hike. I enjoyed following your journey. Thanks for sharing. 😊
Thank you so much for the breakdown. I am so proud of you. You did your hike in troubled time. How awesome! Love forward to the favorite series. Blessings
Great video. Thank you for the breakdown of everything.
What a great breakdown video! It seemed like you were hiking for the whole year, but really you were just on trail a little longer than the average AT thru hiker. Amazing :D
Awesome !!! Hike your own hike, amen. I'm so glad that you got to finish your journey in the crazy year, we had. Cherish the memories forever !!! Congrats from a member of the thru hiking class of 1986 (walkingfool)... best of luck to you and Jerry and, as always, Happy Trails...
So stinking happy for you! If we ever get a chance to do the AT, we will probably be flip flopping all over the place. Everyone has to do what makes sense for them and I think you are right, you were able to experience so much with the way your journey went! Good for you!
Hoping to find someone similar to you to follow this year. I really enjoyed watching your videos!!
Thanks so much for letting us follow along on your journey! While watching this video I was reminiscing on your first few days/weeks on the trail with all the snow and rain and frozen socks/gear etc. lol. Happy Trails!
Great video! You did such a good job of breaking everything down and explaining it. I must say your decision to summit Mount Katahdin on August 6, 2020. And hike SoBo made your hike less stressful and seemed more enjoyable for you✨
Your hike was a pair of flip flops! I love that every hike is unique. I love that you made yours happen despite all of the challenges 2020 brought on. This is wonderful. Thanks for sharing and letting us follow along! :-)
The favorite videos would be great!!
Sounds as though you did your hike your way. You are the sweetest! I always seem to smile right back at you when you do. 🤓🇨🇦
You’re amazing Gretchen. So glad everything was able to fall into place for you to finish the trail. ❤️
I loved watching your journey!! Looking forward to seeing more hikes from Jerry and you in the future!!
Now it all makes sense, thanks for pointing out your hike. Very helpful.
Happy New Year Braids. Your way worked and that is the main thing. You did it your way, You should sing that song ..."I did it my Way"
Thank you for the breakdown. I didn’t understand at first but now I do. Thanks again!
What ever that is on your stand behind yu cool it changing colors
Gretchen this was a awesome video! Even though I watched every video you made on the trail this helped explain some things and tie it all together..I’m really looking forward to your video series “the best of”.....And yes I definitely miss your daily vids of the AT...🥰👍⛺️⛰
Thank you! I kinda miss doing my daily vids lol
This breakdown video was great! I can’t wait to see your “Favorite Things” series. Definitely missing your videos!
Great job! It’s so awesome you finished. I’m so happy for you!
This was interesting. You are the poster child for hike your own hike. 😁🥾
Great breakdown, Braids!
What a journey! ❤
Your video was fantastic it helped filling in the dots now it makes sense ☺️.. awesome job looking forward to your next adventure and I for one enjoyed the longer videos you shared the good and bad of the trail, was more informative. Thanks 👍
It was a blessing to trail majic you from North east Connecticut to Harper's Ferry Maryland. With Denise and Lilly, our dog.
Falls Village, Connecticut to. Harpers Ferry, Virginia.
I love this breakdown video. Can’t wait for your favorites.
Good for you, sounds like you enjoyed yourself.
Awesome video..looking forwards to the next one!
Hi Gretchen! This was very impressive. Thanks for the video. Love it! 🤗 also, I love the picture of you and Jerry in the background!
Love this video!
Finally I got it. You had me confused girl. I first looked you up when "Wild" told us he had met you and at first I thought he had caught up and passed you. My main point of confusion, and yes I caught on you were SOBO, had taken a Covid break and it was your giving mileage on display didn't compute with what you said. I was concerned at one point that you would be meeting up with NOBO's in February.
Congratulations on your successful thru hike and thanks for the videos.
Great information. I'm very slow too so I should figure about the same. I also want to enjoy all the towns and scenery but won't be vlogging so maybe that will save me some time (so i can sleep more). Thanks so much for such details!
Watched you from the beginning. Wish I could have caught up for trail magic in NH. Hope you come back to the Whites in NH. My videos will give you a look during some warmer months. Glad your journey was successful and you are home safe. See you out there. 🏔 ❤️
Thanks for the breakdown. Would you consider hiking the A.T. again?
That was interesting. I thought from the start that you would do it if you kept up a steady pace, and you did. Well done.
See nothing changes...still the one thumbs down (it's not me). Glad you're doing great!
I collect hats. When I met you, I should of had a hat made, still might, that said Hiking with Braids, with a yoda design on the front and 2020 on the back.
Great breakdown!! I have been following your journey and am now at day 137. Two questions: where is Baby Yoda? 😀 Do you know if Mary Poppins got back on trail after COVID?
Thanks for summarizing your hike! Well done 👍. Did you keep trac of your expenses while you were at it?
Your hike should be described as a Flip Flop Flip (maybe add another flip in there somewhere, I lost track). Should clear up all the confusion for the person you are describing your hike to. ;-p I heard that term years ago from a PCT hiker who had to flip twice to finish the trail while avoiding the worst of the snow in a big snow year. All that maters at the end of it is you finished the whole thing.
Thanks for this information. Really helps with a novice hiker. I know everyone is different, but what dollar amount would you recommend reserving just for the hike. This would help be a possible guide for me.
I really enjoyed your commentaries and honesty during your AT journey. Thanks so much
You didn't just walk from point A to B. You had to logistically dominate that trail and you probably know it better than most! Question: how did the slackpacking work? like how do you get your gear from place to place and where do you sleep?
What is the colorful thing on the table? It looks pretty
I wish yu a Jerry would do cdt together
You experienced everything BUT a MOOSE!
If you only see one moose in your lifetime, consider yourself very lucky.
How many cheeseburgers to make it to the end ?😆 I’m such a fat kid
😂😂
3612... approximately.
In Massachusetts you have to wear a mask while watching TH-cam videos and the TV> You also must sit at least 6 feet from the computer. I downvoted because you bought something from the ATC.