You Can't Get There... By Sitting Here - Softcover

Sink, Chuck

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1434361225 ISBN 13: 9781434361226

Publisher: AuthorHouse, 2008

Synopsis

This is an entertaining story of a normal couple, almost normal couple, who fulfilled their lifetime dream of hiking the Appalachian Trail. We started March 1st at Springer Mountain near Dahlonega, Georgia hiking through fourteen states to finish the trail and attain the designation of "ThruHiker" atop Mt. Katahdin near Millinocket, Maine on October 12th. The story will describe the peaks and valleys of emotions we experienced as we hiked over 2,175 challenging miles. It will talk about our fear as we get caught above tree line on Mt. Lafayette in New Hampshire as life threatening winds of over 80 miles per hour from Hurricane Katrina pummel us into the rocks. You will feel the best and worst weather that Mother Nature hurled at us including 20 degrees below zero wind chills in Georgia and over 100 degree heat in New York. You will read about the different problems we solved relying on nothing but each other and what we carried on our backs. You can laugh with us as we describe our hitchhiking adventures with our good hiking buddy, Mayfly. We hitchhiked into and out of towns so we could pick up our mail drops, replenish supplies, shower and sometimes to find a buffet to satiate our enormous appetites. You can identify with us as we relate the many different relationships we had with the great people we met on the trail. There are wonderful anecdotes of "Trail Magic" that family, friends and total strangers created for us by giving unselfishly of themselves to help us along the trail. We hope the story will make you feel that "you" have hiked the Appalachian Trail with us. So, c'mon, lace up your boots, strap on your pack, grab your hiking sticks and let's hike north to Mt. Katahdin!

About this title

About the Author:

We are Chuck and Norma Sink a.k.a. Appalachian Trail names of Chuckles and Gottago. We have always been active people and have shared many adventures during our 43 years of marriage. Norma and I have been in management for forty years. We have created training manuals and prepared many presentations to increase productivity in different companies. We have been fortunate to be well received in these efforts. After the trail we became managers for a company that has fourteen campgrounds across the country. That has given us the opportunity to move from Gatlinburg, Tennessee to Miami, Florida to Branson, Missouri to Gore, Oklahoma and we are still on the move. After hiking the Appalachian Trail we prepared a 2 1/2 hour Power Point presentation about the trail that we have shown to over 400 people. It has been very well received and is a thrill for us to present it. A couple of the comments we heard were, "You made it so real my knees hurt the next day." "Best presentation ever given at this library". Before hiking the trail we spent six weeks as retail consultants in Australia preparing presentations to give to management at major theme parks. We have had the opportunity to climb the Sydney Harbor Bridge in Sydney, Australia. Another longtime dream was to bicycle the C & O Canal path from Cumberland, Maryland to Washington, D.C. which we did the year before hiking the AT. We took time to ride zip lines, go snorkeling and rode mountain bikes in Mexico. We recently rode our bicycles down from the summit of 14,115 foot Pikes Peak. We have been fortunate and wish to share the thrills we experienced on our Appalachian Trail hike. We hope you enjoy it! Thank you for letting us share our memories with you!

About this edition

• Publisher: AuthorHouse
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 1434361225
• ISBN 13: 9781434361226
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 432