Planning to do a flip-flop - SOBO from Harriman at Elk Pen and then NOBO from Harriman to Maine. Going to start on my brother's birthday on March 26th and hike in his honor - I know it's a very early start but I'm planning to send my winter gear home as the weather warms up and have my spring gear shipped forward to me.

I've got plenty of time to do shakedown hikes and dial in my gear, and I'm hoping to post trail updates as well as my shakedowns along the way - any advice from previous hammocking thru-hikers would be hugely appreciated. I'll post my gear lists here as I go along.

This is something I've been meaning to do for about twenty years; my brother died thirty years ago this March.

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