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“This is what we did: * Week 1:  8 miles a day, with a zero day at the end of this week. * Week 2:  10 miles a day, with a zero day at the end of this week. * Weeks 3 and 4:  12 miles a day, with a zero day at the end of this week. * Week 5 and on:  14 or more miles a day, with a zero day once a week. * (after we got up to 18-20 miles a day, we started taking more neros than zeros.) We stayed at 12 miles a day for two weeks because we listened to our bodies”
― Jen Beck Seymour, Thru-Hiking the Appalachian Trail

“Porcupines will frequent shelters as they like to gnaw on the salt-encrusted edge of the platform floor – exactly where hikers tend to sit and congregate with their salty legs hanging over the edge.”
― Jen Beck Seymour, CHICAS ON THE APPALACHIAN TRAIL: Women-Specific Tips for Thru-Hiking the Appalachian Trail and Conversations with Badass Women Hikers