This is my second blog attempt on my new Red Eggleston site. Thanks Triforce Digital Marketing for loading, premium hosting and technical assistance and Word Press for the software to make this happen.
For several years, the Red Eggleston internet site was used to show the products and services we did as a company now dissolved. So if you are looking for us we are still around but having much more fun playing with technology. Thanks for the loyalty, business and the support since 1982.
This is the current goals and direction of this blog. This blog will be used to share many of my passions in life. This will include activities such as camping, backpacking, fishing, hunting, cooking, beer making, golfing, skiing, Texas Tech, photography and all the things I do and want to share. This may seem for you an overwhelming task, and yes it is but I want to give it a try.
So this new passion started from using Google reader, now shut down and no longer supported. I used Netvibes Reader to follow blogs and learn about my interests. I enjoy following the trip reports for all the backpackers on the AT trails, others trails and learning about how to deal with life in the backwoods. So that brings me to why I started this blog in the first place…
I travelled in 2014 to Virginia in September to resume my passion to Backpack and hike on the AT near Shenandoah National Park (SNP). I am not a thru hiker, but a sectional hiker who has on his bucket list to complete or continue what I did back in the 1970s with my Dad and friend Bob Bell. So yes I have sectional hiked the AT in Pennsylvania growing up near Allentown, Pennsylvania but not to the extent I did in September. I have enclosed a picture of our hike in the 70s for your amusement. The trip was in e August 1972 for 12.21 miles between Eckville trailhead, PA and West Penn 309, PA. Notice how young we all looked and I would have thought it was much longer of a hike. I am bragging to my friends now that my previous trip might have been 50 miles. My bad…. I am the real skinny guy, my Dad and my friend Bob Bell. Thanks for the Allentown hiking club for the work way back then.
My last trip on the AT started in Dallas a few years ago but I will post more details such as my gear list, food choices and additional plans on my next entry.
Thanks for reading my blog and peace be with you…