This year's NOBO start season is coming up! Anyone planning to thru hike this year? Section hike? SOBO? Flip?

If so, do you have a blog so the rest of us can hike along vicariously?

Is there an official way to request a feature? All I can find is places to submit bug reports.

It would be nice, on mobile, if the map would rotate when the phone is upside down (charging port on top). In rental cars, this is how I'll put my phone in, so I can plug it in and don't run out of battery while driving.

Interesting to see that someone has set "The Silmarillion" to music. Seems appropriate, after reading the first few pages of the Ainulindalë.

Link to a preview here

I subscribe to a few, but wondering what your favorite Tolkien YouTube channels or podcasts are.

6/19/2013 I climbed up Katahdin with my parents, who had driven me to Baxter, took all the required summit photos, then started walking south. Only went as far as the campground where the car was, but my thru hike had started. About 5 months later I stood on the summit of Springer Mountain.

Hopefully everyone on the trail is aware of this site already, but notices about the trail from the ATC can be found at https://appalachiantrail.org/trail-updates/

Anyone get stuck in the bad smoke while on the trail? Hopefully the AT doesn't become like the PCT and catch fire.