Our trek is in play!! We drove down with Jordan's friends Lars and Josie all thru the night and got dropped off at Amicalola Falls State Park. We registered at the park as thru-hikers and weighed in our packs. Megan had 50 lbs. and Jordan had 56 lbs. ... a ridiculous amount of weight to be carrying into the backcountry. To get up the approach trail to Springer Mountain (the offical start of the trail) we had to climb 750 stairs- argh! But in the process - you get to see a cool waterfall :-)

We made it up Springer Mountain to have a late lunch at 4pm. Yeay-its official - now we've actually started our journey! We've already met a few other thru-hikers, (some of which only have 25 lbs!) took a few pictures, saw our first white blaze! :-) The view was beautiful, we are wishing to get rid of some weight, but we are excited to really be on the trail doing this after all our planning!! We're finally here and going!!