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I'm Hiking the Appalachian Trail Again

2012-09-03T15:00:43Z

I’m beginning to hobble, my right shin is sore and swollen, I’m developing callouses on my feet… I’m hiking the Appalachian Trail again! Last summer I hiked from Harpers Ferry, WV, to Mt. Katahdin in Maine. I am now finishing the trail by heading south from Harpers Ferry to Springer Mountain in Georgia. I’ve posted my first trail report from Waynesboro, VA, about 160 miles in.

You can read about my hike last year, and follow along this year, at Diode’s Appalachian Trail Hikes (2011/2012). If you’d like to be notified when I post updates, subscribe to the atom feed or subscribe via email.

I’ll still hopefully get a few essays up here while I’m on the trail.

One Year Ago Today: Appalachian Trail Semi-Thru Hike

2012-05-17T00:27:24Z

One year ago today I began my three-month, 1,200-mile hike of the northern half of the Appalachian Trail.

My sisters, my dad, and I ready to begin the hike. My sisters and my dad hiked with me for the first five days.

Diode's Appalachian Trail Hike

2011-09-19T21:15:03Z

I spent five months, over two summers, hiking the Appalachian Trail, walking over a total of over 2,000 miles between Georgia and Maine. I hiked the entire distance in two pairs of Crocs (shoes). See my Appalachian Trail page which includes the trail reports I periodically made via email, an annotated interactive map, and other info.

Appeals Court Upholds Boulder's Camping Without Consent Ordinance

2011-04-09T20:33:08Z

Here’s the Daily Camera's report:

“Boulder judge rejects homeless man’s appeal, upholds city’s anti-camping law”

(Update: the Colorado Supreme Court has refused to hear the case)

If you don’t own property, or rent (or otherwise have permission to use) property from someone else, you can at least still sleep on public property in Boulder. However, you can not use a blanket while sleeping on public property in Boulder. Because the use of a blanket is a serious threat to public health and the environment.

I wish I were exaggerating, but three times (once regarding the first issue on appeal, twice regarding the second) the court depends on the fact that the ordinance “allows people to sleep on public property at any time” to uphold the trial court’s ruling. The crime is not in the sleeping, it is in the use of “shelter” defined as “cover or protection from the elements other than clothing.”

The district court’s ruling also notes that the ordinance allows anyone “to use shelter for daytime napping.” I guess sleeping bags are only an environmental hazard at night.

The law doth punish man or woman
That steals the goose from off the common,
But lets the greater felon loose
That steals the common from the goose.