On April 27 (DAY 63) Coach and the Professor departed from Harpers Ferry, WV at 4am to commence the Maryland Challenge. This consists of hiking just over 40 miles in a 24 hour period. They were successful, and celebrated today with a relatively "short" 8 mile hike in Pennsylvania.
They have now completed hiking the AT portions for 6 states: Georgia, North Carolina, Tennessee, Virgnia, West Virgnia and Maryland.
In an email from Harpers Ferry on April 26 (the official halfway point of the AT), Professor writes:
we are just under halfway there! We got our pictures taken and everything and are now officially a part of the AT history. Here's a stat: last year, 1460 attempted a northbound thru-hike of the AT, 747 made it to Harpers Ferry, and only 402 made it to Maine. This year as of 4/20/11 there are 573 northbounders who started at Springer Mountain, and to this moment exactly me and coach are numbers 18 and 19.
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