Today's Update
Hello World!
This is my first post on my new trail journal site. I'll use this site to track my adventures as I hike the appalachain trail. I start hiking on 4/6/2026 from Springer Mountain. Hopefully I finish! From what I've seen trail blogs can be all over the place depending on the interests of the author. I am a software engineer who deeply loves tech, so expect to see less posts about how my sleep system is holding up and more posts about how my programming setup is working. I already have a couple pre-trail posts planned!
- My programming setup. I'm a software engineer by trade, and plan on programming on the trail using an... unorthodox setup (pinephone + postmarketos + sxmo + a bunch of customization). I've been tinkering with this setup for a couple weeks and have found it to be, though very far from perfect, surprisingly capable for what I'm looking to do. This may be a multi-parter depending on how deep in the weeds I decide to go.
- My initial gear list. This shouldn't have too many surprises - I was a bit of a ratings slave and mostly just went with what past thru hikers recommended
- What I'm looking to do on the trail, and what I aim to get out of the whole experience