>>1404672I can offer some answers here, too.
>How long, and how much?I started early June, and finished late November. I'm a slow boi, so I wound up costing more than you probably will. All said, I wound up spending around $5,500. About $800 on my initial gear, another $500 on replacements, and the rest on buying supplies in the towns I came through, and on taking zeroes.
>Nobo, Sobo, Flip Flop?Sobo. The forced conditioning to start was hell, but as soon as I passed the Whites it was smooth sailing, and I was damn glad for my choice.
>How many miles did you average? How many zero/nearo days did you take?Again, I'm slower than most, and I had no set end date to boot, so I took my time going through. I wound up averaging about 14 miles per day, and usually took one zero a week. I stopped in most of the towns I passed early on, and about half of the ones I passed later just because there were so damn many.
>Favorite partAside from the sheer joy of relaxing in a hotel and gorging on town food? The White Mountains. South of Mt Washington, I felt like I was in the Scottish Highlands. Easily my favorite part of the whole trip, absolutely gorgeous.
>Least Favorite partThe Mahoosuc Notch, also known as "the most difficult mile on the AT." I'm sure I would have loved this place given any other situation, but just north of the Mahoosuc Notch (the Mahoosuc Arm, one of- if not the- STEEPEST mile on the AT) a chick I was hiking with fell and sprained her foot (we thought. Turned out she actually broke her damn fibula). Wound up having to carry her and her gear through the notch, because no one there could afford the $12,000 air lift it would take to get her out without a self-rescue.
