You’re such an inspiration to me and a friend who will start May 1st 2024 doing state to state (section hiking). My wife of 37 yes said I am not hiking myself so a friend I’ve known since I was 4 said I’m doing it with you! So cool! I’ve lost 45 pounds since june 1st and am in great shape and can’t wait. I’m 58 and feel like it’s time to set out on the trail. So proud of you and your accomplishments. Hope you and your hubby are great and that store in profitable. Be blessed!!!!
Makes me happy as a mom seeing you eat a good breakfast. It’s fun getting to watch your journey. Glad to see you are doing really well and staying positive.
Ya, those Quaker oats have me woried. They're half a bag of sugar and a couple spoonfulls of oats. Not trying to tell a person what to eat, but it is a lot of dead weight and unuseable calories in sugar. Did you see GearSkeptic's video Defining Ultralight Food?
Reminds me of a holiday in Scotland in a hotel where I was asked if wanted a "good" breakfast, me saying . . . after some thinking . . . yes (still puzzled about the question) and ended up with having a "cooked" full English breakfast that includes bacon, sausages, scrambled eggs, baked beans, grilled tomatoes, mushrooms, toast, and a beverage such as coffee, I still like this as brunch every once in a while, but if you´re not hiking, you might want to skip lunch after this breakfast🙂. Anyway, a "good" breakfast is a good start of the day for a thru-hiker 🙂
@@ThanatosWings The more fatty products are lighter than sugar based products, when it comes to adding the needed calories to your walk, fat gives you more than twice the calories than sugars. It can also cause you to shit your pants, OTOH someone once said you're not a real thru-hiker, if you´ve not shitted your pants at least once 🙂
Perfect blend of you narrating and parts of the trail - videos are always a perfect length and well intentioned! You are a natural and you definitely seem relaxed and happy! 🤩❤️
Nahamsha , your video are a perfect length and so interesting. Nice blend of your story, scenery and useful tips. Actually enjoying them far more than the 2021 videos.
It’s great to see you gaining some elevation in the Smokies. I’ve always found so much personal peace in those mountains, they have brought healing to my life through out my years there, not to mention some amazing fly fishing ❤. I hope that today’s hike, wherever you are, will be filled with great memories and beautiful experiences! Stay safe and well! ⛰️🧗🏻♀️🏕️
Hey Taylor! Welcome to the smokies! Another chilly one! Great view of the dam, I don’t remember seeing it before. Thanks for sharing. Was there still that Grateful Dead sticker at the permit drop box? Sometimes I feel that people that don’t hike New England don’t realize how good they have it with “smooth” trails. 🙏 Thanks for bringing us along today. I hope tomorrow’s miles are kind. Keep truckin’ and be well. -Grateful
During my 2018 hike we had 6-16" of snow then it rained, and the trail turned into a small stream. Coldest winter in 20 years. You have beautiful weather.
Oops wrong hiker - Taylor I enjoy your videos greatly and hope you are having a wonderful time - must be a little strange doing it again - yet a new and wonderful experience- have fun!
I really like that shallow stream halfway through. There is one at a trail I regularly visit here that sorta goes under ground and then comes out above at different places.
Looks familiar About 30 yes ago I camped in smokies Day hiked most of AP in Smokies. Great experience. Always wanted to do entire trail. Health issues set in so will never happen. But you may run across day hikers in smokies. Good luck. Enjoying your videos.
@TaylortheNahamshaHiker1985 hope I am doing this right I am extremely not tech savvy old fart. Good luck. Enjoy watching your stuff on u tube. Brings back memories. Thanks.
The trail to shuckstack was regraded in the 70's. Before that, it was straight up the mountain. I remember coming down shuckstack in 1960 and it was more about falling and holding onto sapling trees.
Im enjoying your adventure and the great video skills. Jay Wanders Out posted yesterday 5 trail regrets. The two that stuck with me--hydrate more (I bet LMNT could also help) and spend more time at the views. I followed in 2021 also, good to see you back.
Can definitely tell your mood has improved a bit! Watched your 2022 full doc and just caught up to today's video. I'm so inspired by your journey. Looking forward to hiking along with you (in spirit)!
Good luck with the smokies! Thansk for the permitt info, i always wondered how that worked. We don't have that here. In canada you just put your permit on your tent or the pole at your tent site. And one goes on your car if you have one.
I have been hiking the Smokies since the Mid 1970’s. Things are so different now compared to when I first started but still so exhilarating and pleasant 🥾🥾🥾
@@elephantprotector do you remember name of book? I have done a lot of the small trails in Smokey’s, Shenandoah Valley, but my wife and I are planning to do the Carolina to coast trail in 2024. 2023 is gonna be a lot of 3-4 day get in shape trails and 2024 will be longer 2 week hikes before trying the AT in 2025
@@elephantprotector this year I am 66 wife is 50. I have health issues T1D since age 6, COPD(never smoked), Heart Stents & Heart Pacemaker. But I am actually in good shape for hiking just gonna carry lots of medication
The slo-mo was too cool. I know I'm dating myself here, but it reminded me of The Bionic Woman.😄 Those honey buns are evil, and sooo good. Rest well Taylor ✌️
Taylor (or anyone else in the know) , do things like the backcountry permit need to be printed off (as you mentioned doing in the video)? I'm coming over from the UK at the end of this month to section hike the first few hundred miles of the AT, and I've been working on the basis that if I have a digital version of things like that on my phone (when I get to that stage of the hike) to show to anyone who needs to see it that this will be enough. I'm coming over to see the trees, not to turn them into paper😉
Really enjoying your thru-hike 2.0 (or 2.5?). Sorry I missed you when you came through the Smokies :(. After spending 4 months last year in the White Mountains backcountry your observations about the Smokies trails are spot on (and I used to think they were super tough lol).
Great making it to the Smokey Mts. I was on a portion of the AT this morning at Bear Mt. State Park. Where the AT originated, back in the 1920's , about 100 years ago! Be safe, have fun. Hopefully, the weather will start *warming up* soon? Great videos, still don't know you hike and hold that pole that holds the camera? Good luck!
Hi Taylor, really enjoying your videos, keep up the great work! Question…the one and only thing that keeps me from doing the AT are all the reports of rodents. Can you please speak to your experience with that on the AT?
Now that you mention it most of what I've seen in your videos so far doesn't look as technically difficult as the blue hills near Boston. Then again I can't imagine walking that far
I noticed how much difficulty you had printing your permit. Is it something you have to print right before you go or can it be printed out ahead of time? I ask for myself as I am going to be hiking that section in a few months. Thanks!! ❤
This is not a Gotcha question: you've talked about LMNT but I thought I saw a canister of NUUM tablets on the table when you were heading out. I'm looking for which electrolyte aids to work with. Is there differences for the different types of trails?: climbing, vs hot, vs cold?
I'm not sure if there's a difference for different types of conditions. LMNT would be my go to, I haven't had nuun in years, I just picked one up at the NOC because I thought I was gonna run out
Even something calorie dense like that gets burned off pretty quick. Her nature as we are seeing is to be a “snacker” while keeping the main meals smallish, with the exception of the recent breakfast adjustment.
Enjoying the videos BUT I would like to encourage you to eat a piece of fruit or two with breakfast. French Toast/sausage, while tasty, is not the nutrition a hiker needs when doing such a lengthy hike. Nuts such as almonds, walnuts, pecans are beneficial too and energy packed. Not trying to "preach" to you but you will perform better.
I don’t understand. I realize she is in great shape and doing this for the second time but this isn’t backpacking as much as it is fiddling with a phone and recording stuff so she can get more subscribers. I always used nature and hiking to escape from everyday life and this is nothing like that. I wonder how her attitude and the ambition to hike this long trail would be if she couldn’t do any more recording - nothing at all except to call the important people so they know she is safe. Maybe I’m just old, I don’t know.
Different people hike for different reasons. Different people enjoy doing different things. I'm pretty new to her channel, but don't think she's doing it like a mercenary hunting for new subscribers. Seems more like genuinely sharing her experiences on the adventure. Probably mostly sharing it for the benefit of real-life friends, while letting the general public tag along if they wish. A personal friend is a "little old lady" who was living in her car several years ago, well before starting a RUclips channel. She now has over 25K subscribers and has moved into bigger vehicles to live in a few times, partly from the encouragement and support of her online friends, partly from the (very) few hundred bucks a month that RUclips brings her, though most of that gets spent on equipment for YouTubing. She went from having nobody and nothing, to being a sort of royalty within a small niche, with many real-life friends both as a social network and a safety net. The connections Taylor will build for herself via this channel, will have value far outweighing any income from views, clicks, subscribers, or sponsors. You can view it cynically as fiddling around to get more subscribers, with a financial/fame goal. I don't. I think it's sharing her experiences, with the side effect of building a strong network of people who enhance her life in more important ways than the couple/few cents per month each creates in revenue. People her age who are placed in an MRI brain scanner, show the same brain activity patterns when their phone is taken away from them, as happens when a person loses a loved one. That is not a criticism on my part. Being electronically connected, and documenting one's life with countless photos, videos, and nearly continuous communication with a wide variety of people, is the new norm. I'm 65. Most of the new real-life friends I've made in the last dozen years, or arguably 25 years, were people I knew online in one way or another first. In my case, that's only true if I exclude people met through work or a hobby where I meet and talk to thousands of new people per year namely playing poker in casinos. Yet, the number of those who become true, close friends outside of the poker room, is tiny in comparison to the number of people I first met online who do. One of my daughters (age 35 now) when she got out of college, had about 2000 Facebook friends. I asked her how many of those were really just friends of friends, ones she'd pare off the list, etc. Her answer was basically that none were, that each was in one way or another a part of the life she wanted to live. 2000 friends, without even being a content creator with a one-to-many broadcasting type of relationship with an even larger number of "subscribers" layered on top of it. I think her much more introverted twin had about 700, again without it being padded with people she barely knew. So, your first sentence is 100% correct, and that's not criticism either. Times have changed. Think of all the people you lost touch with, from not having time to write letters or call each other. Think of what your life might be like if, like the 20somethings and 30somethings today, you never lost track of anyone you might want to talk to once or twice a year for 20 years, then become close friends with again. I think they haven't even reaped the biggest of the benefits of this yet, that will happen in their later years.
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You’re such an inspiration to me and a friend who will start May 1st 2024 doing state to state (section hiking). My wife of 37 yes said I am not hiking myself so a friend I’ve known since I was 4 said I’m doing it with you! So cool! I’ve lost 45 pounds since june 1st and am in great shape and can’t wait. I’m 58 and feel like it’s time to set out on the trail. So proud of you and your accomplishments. Hope you and your hubby are great and that store in profitable. Be blessed!!!!
Thank you for the vicarious trip..... Haven't hiked through there in 20 years....
Thanks for sharing the views and things. I really liked that.
Makes me happy as a mom seeing you eat a good breakfast. It’s fun getting to watch your journey. Glad to see you are doing really well and staying positive.
@@elephantprotectorwe are ❤😁
Ya, those Quaker oats have me woried. They're half a bag of sugar and a couple spoonfulls of oats. Not trying to tell a person what to eat, but it is a lot of dead weight and unuseable calories in sugar.
Did you see GearSkeptic's video Defining Ultralight Food?
Reminds me of a holiday in Scotland in a hotel where I was asked if wanted a "good" breakfast, me saying . . . after some thinking . . . yes (still puzzled about the question) and ended up with having a "cooked" full English breakfast that includes bacon, sausages, scrambled eggs, baked beans, grilled tomatoes, mushrooms, toast, and a beverage such as coffee, I still like this as brunch every once in a while, but if you´re not hiking, you might want to skip lunch after this breakfast🙂. Anyway, a "good" breakfast is a good start of the day for a thru-hiker 🙂
@@ThanatosWings The more fatty products are lighter than sugar based products, when it comes to adding the needed calories to your walk, fat gives you more than twice the calories than sugars. It can also cause you to shit your pants, OTOH someone once said you're not a real thru-hiker, if you´ve not shitted your pants at least once 🙂
Shuckstack Mountain tough climbing, knocking out your first few Smokie miles!
100% agree with the hiking in NH vs NC. I moved to NC and it feels so nice hiking lol
I bet you are going to make it in a 100 days.🎉🎉🎉❤❤❤
Entering the smokies is the coolest feeling!
Great job promoting breakfast and getting to the Smokies! Rooting for you. God bless and keep you safe.
You go girl ❤ Ken NC
Bring the smokies on. Stay warm. Stay Safe and HIKE ON!!!
Perfect blend of you narrating and parts of the trail - videos are always a perfect length and well intentioned! You are a natural and you definitely seem relaxed and happy! 🤩❤️
You never stop smiling!
Not sure what telegram is.
Yeah! The Smokies! Hope you have great weather and lots and lots of fabulous views...Be careful if you hit ice! Thanks for the vlog 0:10
You are doing so great. Stay safe and warm. Happy Hiking 🏕🥾💞
Nahamsha , your video are a perfect length and so interesting. Nice blend of your story, scenery and useful tips. Actually enjoying them far more than the 2021 videos.
Nice video. Thoughtful camera work. You're telling a good story and making great progress. Walk on.
So great to see you so happy entering the Smokies, keep going girl, you're such a rockstar.
It’s great to see you gaining some elevation in the Smokies. I’ve always found so much personal peace in those mountains, they have brought healing to my life through out my years there, not to mention some amazing fly fishing ❤. I hope that today’s hike, wherever you are, will be filled with great memories and beautiful experiences! Stay safe and well! ⛰️🧗🏻♀️🏕️
lovely to see you seem to be more relaxed and chipper
Hey Taylor! Welcome to the smokies! Another chilly one! Great view of the dam, I don’t remember seeing it before. Thanks for sharing. Was there still that Grateful Dead sticker at the permit drop box? Sometimes I feel that people that don’t hike New England don’t realize how good they have it with “smooth” trails. 🙏 Thanks for bringing us along today. I hope tomorrow’s miles are kind. Keep truckin’ and be well.
-Grateful
During my 2018 hike we had 6-16" of snow then it rained, and the trail turned into a small stream. Coldest winter in 20 years. You have beautiful weather.
Good morning
So beautiful there! Glad you took a break
Hope the smokies go smoothly🌻🌻👣
nice vid ,
The Smoky Mountains are my favorite place. Happy Trails! 🚶♀️👍🏻🙂
Hope the Smokies goes well for you, good hiking!
It’s great watching your journey !
You are doing great. Thank you for sharing.
2:30 - THE INFAMOUS SLO-MO TAYLOR CAM MAKES ITS 2023 DEBUT
Love you! Thanks for a beautiful video!
Glad you’re doing well. Calf stretches help me a lot with plantar fasciitis believe it or not! Can’t wait until you’re back on trail!
Oops wrong hiker - Taylor I enjoy your videos greatly and hope you are having a wonderful time - must be a little strange doing it again - yet a new and wonderful experience- have fun!
@RealTaylortheNahamshaHiker not sure how to contact you
UTK Alum; fond memories - stargazing is the best in the Smokies. Sending you positive thoughts for your hike 🧡
I really like that shallow stream halfway through. There is one at a trail I regularly visit here that sorta goes under ground and then comes out above at different places.
Great video shots. Your style is fantastic. Smokey safe and enjoy those Honey Bun smiles. 👍
Big love for your day thanks for ur shares i look forward to them every morning now
Ha! The geese welcomed me to the Smokies too. 😊 It was nice to meet you when you picked up your package recently at the hostel. Happy Trails!
Your recording and editing was really good in this video. Thank you. ✌🏽
Looks familiar
About 30 yes ago I camped in smokies
Day hiked most of AP in Smokies. Great experience. Always wanted to do entire trail. Health issues set in so will never happen. But you may run across day hikers in smokies. Good luck. Enjoying your videos.
@TaylortheNahamshaHiker1985 hope I am doing this right I am extremely not tech savvy old fart. Good luck. Enjoy watching your stuff on u tube. Brings back memories. Thanks.
I feel for you with that heavy pack. Love your food/snack choices!
Really enjoy your videos--always positive and honest. Glad that your thru hike is oging well--chilly temperatures
Good descriptions and details today!
youre moving right along good job walk easy hike hard
The trail to shuckstack was regraded in the 70's. Before that, it was straight up the mountain. I remember coming down shuckstack in 1960 and it was more about falling and holding onto sapling trees.
Im enjoying your adventure and the great video skills. Jay Wanders Out posted yesterday 5 trail regrets. The two that stuck with me--hydrate more (I bet LMNT could also help) and spend more time at the views. I followed in 2021 also, good to see you back.
My 2 all-time bloggers..Taylor and Jay.
Looks like you’re making great progress! Keep that calorie count up. I’ll eat a honey bun for you😊. Keep charging!
Can definitely tell your mood has improved a bit! Watched your 2022 full doc and just caught up to today's video. I'm so inspired by your journey. Looking forward to hiking along with you (in spirit)!
Safe travels! One step at a time👍
Good luck with the smokies! Thansk for the permitt info, i always wondered how that worked. We don't have that here. In canada you just put your permit on your tent or the pole at your tent site. And one goes on your car if you have one.
Keep Pounding T!!!💪💪💪
Thanks for the daily updates keep them coming 👍
I have been hiking the Smokies since the Mid 1970’s. Things are so different now compared to when I first started but still so exhilarating and pleasant 🥾🥾🥾
@@elephantprotector do you remember name of book? I have done a lot of the small trails in Smokey’s, Shenandoah Valley, but my wife and I are planning to do the Carolina to coast trail in 2024. 2023 is gonna be a lot of 3-4 day get in shape trails and 2024 will be longer 2 week hikes before trying the AT in 2025
@@elephantprotector this year I am 66 wife is 50. I have health issues T1D since age 6, COPD(never smoked), Heart Stents & Heart Pacemaker. But I am actually in good shape for hiking just gonna carry lots of medication
The slo-mo was too cool. I know I'm dating myself here, but it reminded me of The Bionic Woman.😄 Those honey buns are evil, and sooo good. Rest well Taylor ✌️
Taylor (or anyone else in the know) , do things like the backcountry permit need to be printed off (as you mentioned doing in the video)? I'm coming over from the UK at the end of this month to section hike the first few hundred miles of the AT, and I've been working on the basis that if I have a digital version of things like that on my phone (when I get to that stage of the hike) to show to anyone who needs to see it that this will be enough. I'm coming over to see the trees, not to turn them into paper😉
Did you make a video about your hyperlite unbound 40 backpack? Pros and cons? Now that you used it for quite some time .
Really enjoying your thru-hike 2.0 (or 2.5?). Sorry I missed you when you came through the Smokies :(. After spending 4 months last year in the White Mountains backcountry your observations about the Smokies trails are spot on (and I used to think they were super tough lol).
Glad to see your are getting your daily breakfast😂 Happy trails!
Nice video with some good views so let's keep on hiking. 😅
Great making it to the Smokey Mts. I was on a portion of the AT this morning at Bear Mt. State Park. Where the AT originated, back in the 1920's , about 100 years ago! Be safe, have fun.
Hopefully, the weather will start *warming up* soon? Great videos, still don't know you hike and hold that pole that holds the camera? Good luck!
Hi Taylor, really enjoying your videos, keep up the great work! Question…the one and only thing that keeps me from doing the AT are all the reports of rodents. Can you please speak to your experience with that on the AT?
Stay safe
5:59 "I'm gonna have this Jumbo Honey Bun right now."
Forgot are you posting your "vlogs", the same day? Great clear videos!
Now that you mention it most of what I've seen in your videos so far doesn't look as technically difficult as the blue hills near Boston. Then again I can't imagine walking that far
The Knorr sides are yummy- have you tried adding some protein to them-? chicken/tuna ?
Trail name should be “ junk food junkie”🤣🤣🤣 stay safe!🙏🙏🙏👏👏👏❤️❤️❤️
yes , me and my man hates the rocks !! but still love the whites
I noticed how much difficulty you had printing your permit. Is it something you have to print right before you go or can it be printed out ahead of time? I ask for myself as I am going to be hiking that section in a few months. Thanks!! ❤
Have you done the PCT or the Florida Trail?
Are the smokies actually worth it? I get mixed reviews
This is not a Gotcha question: you've talked about LMNT but I thought I saw a canister of NUUM tablets on the table when you were heading out. I'm looking for which electrolyte aids to work with. Is there differences for the different types of trails?: climbing, vs hot, vs cold?
I'm not sure if there's a difference for different types of conditions. LMNT would be my go to, I haven't had nuun in years, I just picked one up at the NOC because I thought I was gonna run out
what is the noc?
My 93-year-old dad has a honey bun and a banana for breakfast every day, so it must be good for you.
@S. M. He is going to out live us all, thanks.
Being an Adirondack hiker these trails look like sidewalks.
Those honeybuns are so good but would of weighed me down 🤣
Even something calorie dense like that gets burned off pretty quick. Her nature as we are seeing is to be a “snacker” while keeping the main meals smallish, with the exception of the recent breakfast adjustment.
Someone should compass a “girls of the AT” calendar and make sure Taylor is on the front cover.
Enjoying the videos BUT I would like to encourage you to eat a piece of fruit or two with breakfast. French Toast/sausage, while tasty, is not the nutrition a hiker needs when doing such a lengthy hike. Nuts such as almonds, walnuts, pecans are beneficial too and energy packed. Not trying to "preach" to you but you will perform better.
I don’t understand. I realize she is in great shape and doing this for the second time but this isn’t backpacking as much as it is fiddling with a phone and recording stuff so she can get more subscribers. I always used nature and hiking to escape from everyday life and this is nothing like that. I wonder how her attitude and the ambition to hike this long trail would be if she couldn’t do any more recording - nothing at all except to call the important people so they know she is safe. Maybe I’m just old, I don’t know.
Different people hike for different reasons. Different people enjoy doing different things. I'm pretty new to her channel, but don't think she's doing it like a mercenary hunting for new subscribers. Seems more like genuinely sharing her experiences on the adventure. Probably mostly sharing it for the benefit of real-life friends, while letting the general public tag along if they wish.
A personal friend is a "little old lady" who was living in her car several years ago, well before starting a RUclips channel. She now has over 25K subscribers and has moved into bigger vehicles to live in a few times, partly from the encouragement and support of her online friends, partly from the (very) few hundred bucks a month that RUclips brings her, though most of that gets spent on equipment for YouTubing. She went from having nobody and nothing, to being a sort of royalty within a small niche, with many real-life friends both as a social network and a safety net.
The connections Taylor will build for herself via this channel, will have value far outweighing any income from views, clicks, subscribers, or sponsors. You can view it cynically as fiddling around to get more subscribers, with a financial/fame goal. I don't. I think it's sharing her experiences, with the side effect of building a strong network of people who enhance her life in more important ways than the couple/few cents per month each creates in revenue.
People her age who are placed in an MRI brain scanner, show the same brain activity patterns when their phone is taken away from them, as happens when a person loses a loved one. That is not a criticism on my part. Being electronically connected, and documenting one's life with countless photos, videos, and nearly continuous communication with a wide variety of people, is the new norm.
I'm 65. Most of the new real-life friends I've made in the last dozen years, or arguably 25 years, were people I knew online in one way or another first. In my case, that's only true if I exclude people met through work or a hobby where I meet and talk to thousands of new people per year namely playing poker in casinos. Yet, the number of those who become true, close friends outside of the poker room, is tiny in comparison to the number of people I first met online who do.
One of my daughters (age 35 now) when she got out of college, had about 2000 Facebook friends. I asked her how many of those were really just friends of friends, ones she'd pare off the list, etc. Her answer was basically that none were, that each was in one way or another a part of the life she wanted to live. 2000 friends, without even being a content creator with a one-to-many broadcasting type of relationship with an even larger number of "subscribers" layered on top of it. I think her much more introverted twin had about 700, again without it being padded with people she barely knew.
So, your first sentence is 100% correct, and that's not criticism either. Times have changed. Think of all the people you lost touch with, from not having time to write letters or call each other. Think of what your life might be like if, like the 20somethings and 30somethings today, you never lost track of anyone you might want to talk to once or twice a year for 20 years, then become close friends with again. I think they haven't even reaped the biggest of the benefits of this yet, that will happen in their later years.
It is a little more than that, she is in great shape and possibly is in a better shape than old thru-hikers.
One of my favorite ups . . . 🏞️⛰️🏕️ on AT. The Shuckstack . . .