Miles Trekker's Appalachian Trail Guides exist for one reason: most
Appalachian Trail advice is out of date, contradictory, or written
for someone else's hike.
These books are built from primary sources. Current costs, current
rules, current logistics - checked against the organizations that
actually set them, and rewritten when they change. Not recycled from
a forum post written a decade ago.
PLANNING YOUR HIKE
THE ULTIMATE APPALACHIAN TRAIL GUIDE - the starting point. Planning,
gear and survival tips for the whole trail, for anyone still deciding
whether and how to go.
THE APPALACHIAN TRAIL FIELD MANUAL - the detailed companion. Real
budgets, month-by-month timing, resupply towns and trail safety,
Georgia to Maine.
101 APPALACHIAN TRAIL MISTAKES - the other side of the same question.
Not what to do, but what ends thru-hikes, one mistake at a time.
ON THE TRAIL
APPALACHIAN TRAIL SHELTERS GUIDE - every shelter on the route, with
locations and what to expect when you get there.
APPALACHIAN TRAIL LOGBOOK - blank pages for your own hike, mile by mile.
THE TRAIL'S OWN STORIES
WHISPERS ALONG THE APPALACHIAN TRAIL - the stories, legends and
confessions the trail has collected over generations.
AIN'T JUST TALKIN' - 101 pieces of Appalachian slang, and where
they come from.
New to the trail? Start with The Ultimate Appalachian Trail Guide.
Already planning the hike? Start with the Field Manual.