Woooo buddy I’m excited for ya! I hiked t last year with my trusty Blackbird. Let me tackle your questions here.
5) Starting in PA: the rocks really do suck, but they certainly aren’t worse than the rocks you’re climbing in the Whites. The thing about Pa is that the rocks (which still totally suck) often hit nobos right around the time the worst of the summer heat and bugs do. At least that was the cause behind a lot of my frustrations.
The state in general is really quite flat, however, and offers some real nice camping spots as well as road crossings near a town or pub.
There’s a fire station in Port Clinton that has its own bar and is really quite friendly to thru hikers
The rocks were really only bad for the last 3 days for me, so the last 50 or so miles. Then you hit the Delaware water gap and you’re into jersey, which I quite enjoyed.
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