He's getting ready to go again.

Just 31 days until Judd departs for Damascus Virgina  to pick up where he left off on the AT on October 24, 2013.  He has been planning for months, shopping for weeks, practicing ways to add water and powdered milk to semblances of dried up food for days. Our dog walks now involve getting the right hiking shoes on and filling up his backpack with gallons of water to ready his body for the weight of whatever is the gear of the day.

The "Exercise Room" with some new "equipment"

Bins and bins of food and hiking "needs"

If two walking sticks are good, 4 must be better