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Hiking on the Appalachian Trail Ben Johnson At my school, two of our teachers take us on hikes each year on the AT (Appalachian Trail). We take either internal or external frame hiking packs, group food (which includes bagels, jelly, peanut butter, trail mix, spaghetti noodles, oatmeal, etc.) and we each take whatever we can fit in our packs. We are required to bring a sleeping bag that preferably comes with a stuff sack and a foam sleeping pad so our bag doesnt get wet if it rains. We dont sleep in tents, we carry plastic sheets called tarps. These tarps have a certain way to be set up. First, you find two sturdy trees a good length away from each other. This is your tarp site. Then you take your tarp cord and tie a Truckers Hitch around one tree and make sure you tie these two knots tight enough so that you can play a song on the string. Then you take one of your tarps and drape it over the cord. Then you take the other tarp and spread it our underneath the top tarp. To hold the top tarp down, you need to go to each of the four corners of the sheet and make a chicken head. This means that you need to get a handful of leaves and dirt and shove it in the corner of the tarp. Then you make a steak and tie it to the chicken head using the Truckers Hitch knot that you used before on your longer piece of tarp cord. This is how we camp out on the AT. Even before we leave for the AT the students plan all the aspects of the hike itself. We decide where well be hiking, how long the hike will be, how far well hike each day, where were camping, what were eating, etc. This hike we started our at Williams Gap in North Carolina and ended up at Dicks Creek Gap in north Georgia. It was a five-day long hike and it contained some pretty tough terrain. The first day we hiked 6 miles, the next day was 10, then 8, then 8 again the fourth day, and finally the last day we hiked 4 miles. We went from Wednesday April 7 to Sunday April 11 and got picked up at 2:00 Sunday. The second day of