Now that I’m virtually 1/3 of the way toward completing this hike, it seems time to update the “Hiking by the Numbers” post.

I started hiking on 13 April. Today is only my second “zero day” (a day with no Trail miles hiked). That makes for 53 hiking days since I began.

I’ve hiked 727.8 miles on the Trail (plus who knows how many more miles on side trails to shelters, to water sources, to hostels, and in or around the towns I’ve been in). The total distance this year is 2189.2 miles, so my one third mark will come tomorrow two miles after I start hiking, when to get to 729.7. (By the way, the 2/3 mark comes at Bull’s Bridge, Connecticut, a 19th century covered bridge over the Housatonic River just outside the village of Bull’s Bridge.)

My biggest mileage day was just on Tuesday, 2 June, when I hiked 18.2 miles. My shortest day was on Monday, 4 May when I only hiked 3.4 miles to get into Hot Springs, North Carolina.