Congratulations Kevin. Strong beard game indeed , but even stronger resolve, courage, and resilience! Many thanks for generously sharing your journey. Your well earned whoop of joy at the summit says it all!!!
You sir, are an inspiration. Congratulations on a hell of an accomplishment! Your videos were wonderful. I thoroughly enjoyed your sense of humor and humility. On to the next one! All the best.
So so excited for you. Super proud as well. An awesome journey that you unselfishly shared with many strangers who wished you well and cheered you on through the ups and downs, literally. Amazing job, great stats at the end of the video. Thank you so much, I truly enjoyed your adventure and wish you love, peace, health and a endless amount of years of adventures and happiness. Thank you and congratulations, YOU DID IT, you are an official AT thru-hiker 🥳🎉🥳🎉🥇🥾🏔🥳🥳👏👏👏
Kevin, I say this from the bottom of my heart, i am so proud of you. You overcame so many challenges (big and small) and you did so with a smile and an attitude that makes me weep with envy. Your videos were the best part of my day and i shall miss your updates. I hope that you will keep in touch with us, your online family, and tell us about your insights, your gear and your lost bidets. And if you want my advice, grab some pillows, a red suit and enter that "Santa Look-a-like" contest before you do another thing. Your beard is outstanding! Thanks Reckless. It has been a pleasure getting to know you.
Well done sir!! A practical approach to a seemingly impossible task. Thank you for sharing the laughs the truths and miles along your journey. Really glad you decided to do this and Then finish it with such fierce determination. Thx for being selfless enough to bring us all along. Best hiking vlog of the year
You did it!! Twenty one hundred, ninety three point one miles!! Congratulations!! I’ve been watching you since you had to postpone your trip because of the rony-pony. I saw you work out the kinks in your gear and figure out what food you wanted…and all those miles with cellulitis, the zeroes you had to deal with in order to keep moving forward!! I was happy that you didn’t give up! Now go home, honey! Shower, shave, and sleep your crazy ass off!! I hope that some March soon, that’s gonna be me!
So proud of you. Gives me hope this 64 year old can hike this trail. I did not realize you lost so much weight. Loved the stats and shoes on rock audio at the end.
Thanks for the ride-a-long on your epic hike. Loved the stats at the end. As I re-read "Walk in the Wild" for the upteenth time, your voice is narrating! LOL
Wow that rocky trail /creek was awful! Embrace the suck... but the views....so worth it! Your smile really was priceless to see ;-) What a crowd at the top!
Kevin - your video was a bit of inspiration for me. I started my own AT through hike on 16 Feb 2023 and hit the summit of Mt. Katahdin on 18 July, just about five months and two days. I’m an old guy as well and in fact I turned 67 on 1 May at Harpers Ferry. It was a hell of an experience, restored my faith in humanity, met some great people - through hikers, section hikers and a host of Trail Angels and have some great memories.
Tears in my eyes as you neared the top. Thrilled for you, and I’m privileged to have followed your trek from Day One-actually, before that. Your summit photo is The Best! Congratulations, Kevin! 🎉👏👏👏👏🎉
The vistas were beautiful. Your efforts admirable, and the ending certainly worth your effort. You will have this trail with you the rest of your life. Go enjoy that London Broil and enjoy a cold one on me. Glad to have been a part of your channel. I think you have a new trail name! ‘Can’t Quit Smiling!’ Send me some whiskers!
What a day! I'm so happy for you in this astounding accomplishment. It has been so much fun being able to share your journey with you. That you so much for taking us all along \O/
Way to go! RUclips decided I should see your AT gear video a year ago, and I knew watching you would be every bit as fun as it was! Thanks so much for carrying us along with your pack 👍
I have been tuned in to every episode since last years gear shakes down and was so bummed when your trip was canceled last year due to COVID. I want to tell you that I am so proud of you for such an achievement!
Wow, wow, wow. This is my all time favorite summiting video. Fantastic! Congratulations on your achievement and many thanks for the extraordinary effort you put in to sharing your experiences and making these videos.
Congratulations on your achievement. It has been a great journey indeed. You have a wonderful upcoming weekend. Thank you for sharing. So, now you have to walk back again? ;-)
Congratulations!! Totally Awesome! We so enjoyed watching you and learning from your journey! You have inspired us more than you'll ever know. Thank you for taking the time to record. Again, JOB WELL DONE!!!
This is so incredible!! I had tears in my eyes when you turned the camera to your face walking up the mountain!! I always knew you’d make it. I loved watching your adventure!! Charlotte
Nicely done Kevin! I’ve been following your progress since your first video talking about the books you’ve read and the preparations. Think you could have a second career as a stand-up comedian. Although the change in your humor changed slightly as the miles passed. Still you never lost your sense of humor. Enjoyed watching your journey. Thank you!
I really enjoyed watching your journey. I'll be retiring in a few years and have already started planning my hike. I hope you will do some post-hike videos about your experience. Congratulations on your summit, it was epic!
Congrats, been watching the whole way, praying that you overcame your challenges; loved the dry wit and humor; I think your picture on this vid in the beginning really reflects your true trail name (santa); love the stats on the end; I'd would love to see a post hike gear explosion or even a live session for questions and answers.
Congrats on such an amazing achievement! Best wishes to you in the future. I would love to see you on survivor! You just proved you can do anything you set your mind to. Loved the stats at the end, too. I wish more hikers shared this. Very interesting! 👍🏻👍🏻
Very cool Kevin, you did a great job . I was hoping you would have taken the knifes eage down the dudley trail . It's rather impressive to say the lest . I can tell you a hiker the recorded the whole trail just ask . And you left one thing of the list's of things. " learned " to look for cameras in the laundry rooms before striping nude .🤭🤭😄
It was wonderful hiking "with" you. (By the way, I've got the 36 pounds you lost if you want them back...) Sorry, but could you repeat what you said on the Mt. Katahdin sign? (I didn't understand it.) I hope you'll do at least one more video on what worked for you, what didn't, what surprised you about your equipment, etc. And did you ever think of hammocking? If not, why not? Thanks for sharing this adventure.
Congratulations, that was wicked and a pleasure to watch! Thanks for sharing. In my opinion your vlogging was right up there with the best. A couple of others I followed were IBTAT (CDT), dinendash (CDT), Barbara Willan (CDT), Taylor, the Nahamhsa Hiker (AT), and of course Dixie. I followed these people because I enjoyed what they had to say. While I hike all the time I haven’t camped in about 40 years (I’m old too, lol) but have been assembling my kit slowly to hike my local trail as a thru hike this summer. All the information you hikers share really help me to work on the fear factor of hiking alone. At least we don’t have bears or snakes here….. Thanks again.
Congrats on your accomplishments. I was excited to have followed your hike and honored to have dined with you on Mt. Garfield. Jokingly, I take full credit that my 'Thanksgiving in a Bag' meal powered your "older than Alaska & Hawaii" prostate onto Katahdin.
Thoroughly loved seeing your videos. Gonna miss your absence. Now onwards with the assessments and implications. Has to be an afterwards. What has life become?
Well done Kevin. I started section hiking July 2017. I stopped for a food drop at the Top of Georgia Hostel. I don't think it's there anymore. An old man there gave me some information I remember. 1) If I head north from there I would be in the 75% group. I didn't understand. He said 25% never get out of Georgian. 2) I was about to enter the rain forest. I thought he was joking. 3) Somewhere between 20-30% of through hikers will be successful. And the fourth thing I remember really surprised me. Through hikers age 60 or older have a 90% success rate. He said they get there a little slower, but they get there. Kevin, you are one of the 90 percenter's. Enjoyed your videos.
I follow a couple RUclips AT hikers every year and heard about your book this year (2023) while watching Renee/Couch to Trail. I read your book and had so many laugh out loud moments, that of course, I had to look up your channel and binge watch all the videos of your hike which resulted in more moments of laughter. I thoroughly enjoyed reading your book and following up with the videos. I learned so much from you that I had never heard or seen before in any other books or videos. I hope to hike the AT one day once my kids are raised and out of the house, but until then I am living vicariously through everyone else. Thank you for the wealth of information about the AT along your journey and I really enjoyed your positivity and joyful moments.
This is the best compliment and book review! Thank you so much! Post that to Amazon reviews, pleeeze!!! Lol And I look forward to following YOUR hike one day, too!
Congratulations, I started watching you at the beginning of your hike. You provided great entertainment and more information on the nobo hike. Thanks 😊 My turn in 2024
Reckless, after meeting you I have watched you overcome so much and knew from that time you would go on and finish your journey, congratulations on your huge accomplishment, you did it!
I first watched this video on the day you posted but decided not to comment until I finished watching all postings from the beginning. Now that I tagged along for your entire thru hike I must say I enjoyed following along on your adventure. I'm the same age as you and dream of one day completing an AT thru hike, maybe 2022 will be my year. 👍😊☮
Congratulations on finishing The Trail. Been following you since your gear videos. I wont lie, I had my doubts you would finish when you kept ending up in the ER. So glad that you were able to stick with it and strive to get it done! I would love to see a few more post trail videos about your thoughts and experiences. Cheers!
Thanks, there were times when I was beginning to have my own doubts too. I have a few post-trail videos in the pipeline now, hopefully will post one this coming weekend.
Congratulations man! I've been watching your videos and I've often been in the location featured in the video when it was posted. I summited today so the timing was perfect again, lol. I was really hoping to catch you and shake your hand. You earned this. Great job!
Watching this today as my son “Stickers” is climbing Katahdin. He started Feb 18. Watching your videos last year helped me mentally prepare. Watching along with his journey this year was a joy. Thank you !!
By far your journey was the most enjoyable 2021 thru hike I watched, and I’ve watched many. Can’t wait to see you on Survivor!
Congratulations Kevin. Strong beard game indeed , but even stronger resolve, courage, and resilience! Many thanks for generously sharing your journey. Your well earned whoop of joy at the summit says it all!!!
You sir, are an inspiration. Congratulations on a hell of an accomplishment! Your videos were wonderful. I thoroughly enjoyed your sense of humor and humility. On to the next one! All the best.
So so excited for you. Super proud as well. An awesome journey that you unselfishly shared with many strangers who wished you well and cheered you on through the ups and downs, literally. Amazing job, great stats at the end of the video. Thank you so much, I truly enjoyed your adventure and wish you love, peace, health and a endless amount of years of adventures and happiness. Thank you and congratulations, YOU DID IT, you are an official AT thru-hiker 🥳🎉🥳🎉🥇🥾🏔🥳🥳👏👏👏
Kevin, all I can say is WOW….WOW……WOW
You are a inspiration.
The old man made it!!!
YEAH!!!!!! 👍👍
Thanks for sharing your journey.
Congratulations Kevin/Reckless! That was quite the journey and I appreciate you sharing it.
Congratulations, Kevin. I am so glad that I found your vlogs. I pity the fool that ever underestimates your ability to accomplish a goal.
Great, strong ending. Congrats. Love the tallies, too!
Congratulations!!! Enjoyed the statistics at the end.
Congratulations! You were hilarious and kept it real every step of the way!
Kevin, I say this from the bottom of my heart, i am so proud of you. You overcame so many challenges (big and small) and you did so with a smile and an attitude that makes me weep with envy. Your videos were the best part of my day and i shall miss your updates. I hope that you will keep in touch with us, your online family, and tell us about your insights, your gear and your lost bidets. And if you want my advice, grab some pillows, a red suit and enter that "Santa Look-a-like" contest before you do another thing. Your beard is outstanding! Thanks Reckless. It has been a pleasure getting to know you.
Totally agree with everything you said 👍 He is amazing!
Well done sir!! A practical approach to a seemingly impossible task. Thank you for sharing the laughs the truths and miles along your journey. Really glad you decided to do this and Then finish it with such fierce determination. Thx for being selfless enough to bring us all along. Best hiking vlog of the year
I just stand and applaud your accomplishment👏 Thanks for the trail perspective and lots of laughs. Congratulations and WELL DONE!!!!!!
Hats (two of them) off to you! A great voyage well told. Love the subtitled by the numbers at the end.
You did it!! Twenty one hundred, ninety three point one miles!! Congratulations!! I’ve been watching you since you had to postpone your trip because of the rony-pony. I saw you work out the kinks in your gear and figure out what food you wanted…and all those miles with cellulitis, the zeroes you had to deal with in order to keep moving forward!! I was happy that you didn’t give up!
Now go home, honey! Shower, shave, and sleep your crazy ass off!!
I hope that some March soon, that’s gonna be me!
Bye, thanks for letting me ride your coattails!! What an amazing journey!! You rock, Reckless Abandon/Kevin Newsome!! (No pun intended!!)
Congrats about 20 X Wow
So proud of you. Gives me hope this 64 year old can hike this trail. I did not realize you lost so much weight. Loved the stats and shoes on rock audio at the end.
That is SO awesome!!! Congratulations!! 🥂
Thanks for the ride-a-long on your epic hike. Loved the stats at the end. As I re-read "Walk in the Wild" for the upteenth time, your voice is narrating! LOL
Aw cheese, I'm not crying, you are! (or laughing, or hootin & hollerin or whatever) 👏😁
🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻🎉🎉👏🏻🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻that is so F’ing awesome!!! CONGRATULATIONS!!!!!!
Wow that rocky trail /creek was awful! Embrace the suck... but the views....so worth it! Your smile really was priceless to see ;-) What a crowd at the top!
Kevin - your video was a bit of inspiration for me. I started my own AT through hike on 16 Feb 2023 and hit the summit of Mt. Katahdin on 18 July, just about five months and two days. I’m an old guy as well and in fact I turned 67 on 1 May at Harpers Ferry. It was a hell of an experience, restored my faith in humanity, met some great people - through hikers, section hikers and a host of Trail Angels and have some great memories.
Congratulations, Thru Hiker!!!
So great to see us Boomers representing on such a tough trail!
Are you going to have any merch? I would love to have a Reckless Abandon sticker.
Thanks! Undecided as yet but if I do, I’ll post here about it.
Tears in my eyes as you neared the top. Thrilled for you, and I’m privileged to have followed your trek from Day One-actually, before that. Your summit photo is The Best! Congratulations, Kevin!
🎉👏👏👏👏🎉
Congratulations! Amazing accomplishment. Definite inspiration
Awesome!! Congratulations! What an inspiration!!!
The vistas were beautiful. Your efforts admirable, and the ending certainly worth your effort. You will have this trail with you the rest of your life. Go enjoy that London Broil and enjoy a cold one on me. Glad to have been a part of your channel. I think you have a new trail name! ‘Can’t Quit Smiling!’ Send me some whiskers!
Congratulations. Well done. I enjoyed watching your adventure.
You're a true hiking BADASS Reckless Abandon !!!
What a day! I'm so happy for you in this astounding accomplishment. It has been so much fun being able to share your journey with you. That you so much for taking us all along \O/
Congratulations!!! Thank you for sharing the trip.
Congratulations Kevin. Badass climb on your last day.
I love you for taking me along. I’m so proud of me for having watched it all.
Congratulations! I really enjoyed watching your journey.
Congrats! It was a joy to follow along. I'm curious to hear about your post-hike thoughts.
Congratulations, Kevin! And thank you for sharing the adventure with all of us couch potatoes. :-)
Way to go! RUclips decided I should see your AT gear video a year ago, and I knew watching you would be every bit as fun as it was! Thanks so much for carrying us along with your pack 👍
Exactly how I met Mr. Reckless, and I couldn’t have enjoyed the trip more!!
@@amnot23 🤜
I have been tuned in to every episode since last years gear shakes down and was so bummed when your trip was canceled last year due to COVID. I want to tell you that I am so proud of you for such an achievement!
Wow, wow, wow. This is my all time favorite summiting video. Fantastic! Congratulations on your achievement and many thanks for the extraordinary effort you put in to sharing your experiences and making these videos.
I have enjoyed following your journey to Katahdin. Awesome accomplishment. Wishing you the best in what ever life holds for you.
Followed you from day 1 !!! Amazing
Congratulations and thank you for taking on such a wonderful journey. Looking forward to joining you on RUclips with you next adventure. God bless
I swear, I want a life-size poster of your summit photo!!!LMAO!
Congratulations! Love the notes at the end of the video. Great Hike!
Congratulations on your achievement. It has been a great journey indeed. You have a wonderful upcoming weekend. Thank you for sharing.
So, now you have to walk back again? ;-)
Congratulations!! Totally Awesome! We so enjoyed watching you and learning from your journey! You have inspired us more than you'll ever know. Thank you for taking the time to record.
Again, JOB WELL DONE!!!
A big congratulations 👏. Well done and thanks for sharing your adventure!
Congrats! Job well done. Continued to keep walking in the face of many obstacles.
Daddy long legs definitely lost a little weight since I last saw him at Grayson Highlands
I'm not a cry-er....but, you screaming on top of the sign had my eyes a little watery (and it wasn't even my hike). Congrats!!!!!
You did it! Truly inspiring. Thank you for allowing me to follow your journey. I teared up for you in the end. What an accomplishment!
So happy for you Kevin! Thank you for taking us along for the ride, was a fantastic journey. I wish you all the best in the future, stay safe!!
This is so incredible!! I had tears in my eyes when you turned the camera to your face walking up the mountain!! I always knew you’d make it. I loved watching your adventure!! Charlotte
that second mile - i don’t think anyone has shown that before! congrats on your achievement!
Nicely done Kevin! I’ve been following your progress since your first video talking about the books you’ve read and the preparations. Think you could have a second career as a stand-up comedian. Although the change in your humor changed slightly as the miles passed. Still you never lost your sense of humor. Enjoyed watching your journey. Thank you!
Congratulations!!! I hope to follow in your shoes one day.
So amazing! Congrats on finishing the AT 👏😁🎉
I really enjoyed watching your journey. I'll be retiring in a few years and have already started planning my hike. I hope you will do some post-hike videos about your experience. Congratulations on your summit, it was epic!
Finally got to be able to watch this. I'm sappy so I cried, so proud of you and happy for you!!!!
Congrats! Wonderful!
Good job kevin bob from pa 309 hamburgers on trail i never seen a ratler luckey you
Congratulations! Thank you for taking us with you.
Congratulations I can say the Boy Scouts you met at roan mountain all the way back in North Carolina have enjoyed watching your trip
Congrats, been watching the whole way, praying that you overcame your challenges; loved the dry wit and humor; I think your picture on this vid in the beginning really reflects your true trail name (santa); love the stats on the end; I'd would love to see a post hike gear explosion or even a live session for questions and answers.
Congratulations, Kevin
way to go ... your journey story was so positive.
Well done man, well done. Totally enjoyed going with you. Great ending; or is it?
Congrats! You are an inspiration to us older people!
Congrats. Great journey.
Thank you for sharing this. Really enjoyed the trip
Congratulations Kevin
Kevin you are so awesome, what an adventure. So proud of you man!
Also, love the end lists...
My friend - it has been a real pleasure following you on your hike.
Congrats on such an amazing achievement! Best wishes to you in the future. I would love to see you on survivor! You just proved you can do anything you set your mind to. Loved the stats at the end, too. I wish more hikers shared this. Very interesting! 👍🏻👍🏻
Very cool Kevin, you did a great job . I was hoping you would have taken the knifes eage down the dudley trail . It's rather impressive to say the lest . I can tell you a hiker the recorded the whole trail just ask . And you left one thing of the list's of things. " learned " to look for cameras in the laundry rooms before striping nude .🤭🤭😄
congratulations man..
Congratulations 🎉
Congratulations!!!
Congrats , good on ya
Congratulations
Congratulations! ' Been watching you're exploits from the beginning .Very impressed.
Glad to hear that!
Hey Thanks for another great video and taking me along really enjoy the whole thing
Congrats!
Congrats!
It was wonderful hiking "with" you. (By the way, I've got the 36 pounds you lost if you want them back...) Sorry, but could you repeat what you said on the Mt. Katahdin sign? (I didn't understand it.)
I hope you'll do at least one more video on what worked for you, what didn't, what surprised you about your equipment, etc. And did you ever think of hammocking? If not, why not?
Thanks for sharing this adventure.
I think I said “Jeff Probst, I hope you’re paying attention!” (Will soon be sending Survivor my audition tape, filmed on the trail).
Congratulations, that was wicked and a pleasure to watch! Thanks for sharing. In my opinion your vlogging was right up there with the best. A couple of others I followed were IBTAT (CDT), dinendash (CDT), Barbara Willan (CDT), Taylor, the Nahamhsa Hiker (AT), and of course Dixie. I followed these people because I enjoyed what they had to say. While I hike all the time I haven’t camped in about 40 years (I’m old too, lol) but have been assembling my kit slowly to hike my local trail as a thru hike this summer. All the information you hikers share really help me to work on the fear factor of hiking alone. At least we don’t have bears or snakes here….. Thanks again.
Thank you for tuning in, M Elizabeth. Best of weather on your hike this summer!
Congrats on your accomplishments. I was excited to have followed your hike and honored to have dined with you on Mt. Garfield. Jokingly, I take full credit that my 'Thanksgiving in a Bag' meal powered your "older than Alaska & Hawaii" prostate onto Katahdin.
That “Thanksgiving in a bag” was the best meal I had the entire hike! Thank you!
Thoroughly loved seeing your videos. Gonna miss your absence. Now onwards with the assessments and implications. Has to be an afterwards. What has life become?
Planning a post-hike gear review.
Well done Kevin. I started section hiking July 2017. I stopped for a food drop at the Top of Georgia Hostel. I don't think it's there anymore. An old man there gave me some information I remember. 1) If I head north from there I would be in the 75% group. I didn't understand. He said 25% never get out of Georgian. 2) I was about to enter the rain forest. I thought he was joking. 3) Somewhere between 20-30% of through hikers will be successful. And the fourth thing I remember really surprised me. Through hikers age 60 or older have a 90% success rate. He said they get there a little slower, but they get there. Kevin, you are one of the 90 percenter's. Enjoyed your videos.
Thanks David! I’d heard that the success rate of older hikers was good, glad I didn’t drag down the average! lol
I follow a couple RUclips AT hikers every year and heard about your book this year (2023) while watching Renee/Couch to Trail. I read your book and had so many laugh out loud moments, that of course, I had to look up your channel and binge watch all the videos of your hike which resulted in more moments of laughter. I thoroughly enjoyed reading your book and following up with the videos. I learned so much from you that I had never heard or seen before in any other books or videos. I hope to hike the AT one day once my kids are raised and out of the house, but until then I am living vicariously through everyone else. Thank you for the wealth of information about the AT along your journey and I really enjoyed your positivity and joyful moments.
This is the best compliment and book review! Thank you so much! Post that to Amazon reviews, pleeeze!!! Lol
And I look forward to following YOUR hike one day, too!
Congratulations, I started watching you at the beginning of your hike. You provided great entertainment and more information on the nobo hike. Thanks 😊
My turn in 2024
Thank you, and enjoy your hike in 24!
Reckless, after meeting you I have watched you overcome so much and knew from that time you would go on and finish your journey, congratulations on your huge accomplishment, you did it!
Thank you, Billy. It was one heck of a stroll over the mountains.
I first watched this video on the day you posted but decided not to comment until I finished watching all postings from the beginning. Now that I tagged along for your entire thru hike I must say I enjoyed following along on your adventure. I'm the same age as you and dream of one day completing an AT thru hike, maybe 2022 will be my year. 👍😊☮
Glad you enjoyed it, Ray! Looking forward to seeing your summit next year!
Congratulations on finishing The Trail. Been following you since your gear videos. I wont lie, I had my doubts you would finish when you kept ending up in the ER. So glad that you were able to stick with it and strive to get it done! I would love to see a few more post trail videos about your thoughts and experiences. Cheers!
Thanks, there were times when I was beginning to have my own doubts too.
I have a few post-trail videos in the pipeline now, hopefully will post one this coming weekend.
Congratulations! What are your plans from here? Are you going to be a Triple Crowner?
No plans for any long trails as yet. Smaller trails (Colorado or Arizona) are more likely.
Congratulations man! I've been watching your videos and I've often been in the location featured in the video when it was posted. I summited today so the timing was perfect again, lol. I was really hoping to catch you and shake your hand. You earned this. Great job!
Congratulations on your summit, Bandit!
Watching this today as my son “Stickers” is climbing Katahdin. He started Feb 18. Watching your videos last year helped me mentally prepare. Watching along with his journey this year was a joy. Thank you !!
Congratulations to you and your son (families deserve a lot of credit!). This trek will serve him well in life!
@@kevinnewsome-recklessabandon thank you!