Dicey - Appalachian Trail Journal - 2014

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The mighty Shenandoah

The Longest Blueblaze

This morning i sit on the lawn of storer college waiting for the ATC to open. I am sad to leave the trail, and yet I don't know why. Its not like I'm saying goodbye to any long-term hiking partners or "trail family". I will still be close to the wilderness at my new job.

And yet there it is, that ache in the heart that comes when I leave something that I love. My one consolation, realized this morning as I stepped from the white blazed AT onto the blue blazed side trail: I am a blue-blazer. And for a blue-blazer, it is all trail, whether following the white blazes or hiking an alternate route or wandering down a dirt road. So even now, as i head across the continent to the northern cascades;im not leaving the Appalachian Trail, I'm just taking an alternate route. A really long blue blaze.

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