Throwback: 2009, Hold on Sunset. Title borrowed from the name of a song song by my friend Luke.Peter

Throwback: 2009, Hold on Sunset. Title borrowed from the name of a song song by my friend Luke.Peter, trail name “The Saint,” and I traveled together nearly the entirety of the AT, I met him and his wife on my first day in Georgia. We talk a few times a year now. We had so many adventures over those few months. You know who your friends are when you find yourself in a situation where you know for sure you have each other’s back. This one time, a car drove by us creepily slow while on a section of road walk. We turned a corner and the driver was standing next to his car waiting for us. As soon as he saw us he hopped in the driver seat and sped towards us. We were sure it was a psychopath coming to kill us. We gave each other a quick glance that said “don’t wory I got your back,” when the man pulled over next to us he explained he was a traveling salesman spending time at home for a little while in New York. “My life is friggin awesome,” he told us in the thickest NY accent you could ever imagine. He offered to show us around town, and knowing we had eachother’s back through thick and thin we took him up on the offer. We took an hour or so drive seeing the sights of the area. He later dropped us off where he had picked us up, we thanked him for the tour and wished him well before heading back to the trail and finding camp for the night.A month or so later I made this photo atop Mt. Garfield in the White Mountains of New Hampshire. The whites are tough hiking, straight up and straight down, over and over, all day long. As the sunlight faded The Saint and I turned on our headlamps and put faith in ourselves and each other hoping not to twist an ankle along the dark rocky descent, knowing full well we had eachother’s back should shit hit the fan.#friends #trailfamily #appalachiantrail #AT #canonusa #explore #whitemountains #NH #hikeyourownhike #imissyoubuddyitsbeenalmost10yearssinceiveseenyou #sunset #thruhiker #kitlenshttps://www.instagram.com/p/B0ruoWLAXJd/?igshid=t126s9cf1phf -- source link

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