Your doing Awesome! Thanks again for sharing your journey.

Also, thanks for the pics of the wonderful flowers, the birds, and bugs. Love it.

Fantastic photography!! You are right, the trail is beautiful in a different way every day. Keep on stepping!

@transcendenttraipsing

Ай бұрын

Thank you!❤️

Sit and relax

Poison ivy nightmare! I can only think of wearing pants and long sleeve shirt and remove it carefully before getting on your tent and then wash your hands 🤷‍♀️ a mission! Anyway, great video! Thank you for taking the time to edit this amazing video. Sending love ❤

Try to dry out some Lysol wipes then wet them at camp when you take pants and shoes off and wipe them down. That will also keep the oil from sticking to your hands. Hope it works. AT All The Way 🥾

@transcendenttraipsing

Ай бұрын

Thanks!

Poison ivy, poison oak and poison sumac. I've seen it all on my AT thru hike in 2022. I found applying sunscreen helped keep the oils from contacting the skin, I hiked in shorts during the warm months on the trail. I also packed a small amount of Technu to clean any itchy skin but i never had to use it. I avoided anything green on the trail. At night i put my shoes in a plastic shopping bag, mostly for dirt. I always changed into my silk Long John's for sleeping. I also asked my adult son to be careful as well even though he isn't allergic (but I sure am!). The ticks ended up being a bigger problem for us. They loved my son!

I'm not sure either about the plant but it seems that a reaction would be when you get direct contact with the broken/cut (i'm french) stem (the sap in it). And a suggestion, you could put your shoes in a plastic shower cap if you prefer to have them in your tent, even just to keep the surrounding clean. It's a joy to watch you both 😀

@transcendenttraipsing

Ай бұрын

Oooh, that’s a great idea!

Yes, those fuzzy vines with the long branches are poison ivy.

Will your sister do it next year? She was so excited about the trail!

@transcendenttraipsing

21 күн бұрын

Not sure.

Please camp and show it. My plantar fasciitis is killing me for you. It’s a young persons dumb.

took picture with Iphone did plant look up and it said poison ivy

The poison ivy oil is called urushiol. There are some wipes that may help hikers. Ivy-X is a pre-contact chemical that is applied about 15 minutes before setting off hiking. After contact with urushiol your skin can be wiped down with Tecnu Detox wipes or their Tecnu Orginal Outdoor cleaner. PS don't take a hot water to clean off this oil. Hot water opens your pores which could make things worse. Hope this helps.

@transcendenttraipsing

Ай бұрын

Very helpful! Thank you!

Another reason I’m gonna flip flop. Starting at HarpersFerry on relatively flat land going South to Ga will get me use to the land I hope & give me trail legs before the Smokey Mountains. Then, having 600 miles under the belt should be encouraging to continue e on north from Harpers Ferry.

@transcendenttraipsing

Ай бұрын

That sounds like a great plan!

I was just very careful to not touch poison Ivy, luckily I never had to dig a cat hole near any. My trekking poles never came in my tent and my shoes got stuck in a corner of tent, I did carry a plastic grocery bag to stick them in when need mostly because of mud. I, like you, have never had it and may not be reactive to it. But avoidance in the 1st place is key

@transcendenttraipsing

Ай бұрын

That’s pretty much what we’re doing but we handle our poles when we adjust them for our tent. We’ve just been trying to avoid the lower third in case they came into contact with it.

I call it poison oak when it's on a big 🌳

Nice views from Max patch. Poison Ivy and Poison Oak are everywhere, just try to avoid if you can.

@transcendenttraipsing

Ай бұрын

Definitely will!

Btw, my sister & 2 brothers all stripped poison ivy once to fish with. Making our sort of cane-type makeshift poles. We did this & fished all day. Only my sister had a reaction. Hers required a Dr. Her eyes had swollen shut & she couldn’t see. Her face was so puffy we went to visit my Grandma & Grandma ask mom who this little girl was. My sister started crying because Grandma didn’t know her. Grandma thought it was one of our friends. Needless to say my sister was miserable & why just one of 4 siblings?

@transcendenttraipsing

Ай бұрын

Oh wow! That’s crazy!

Yall 2 are awesome hope yall can keep the dead line on the AT love to see yall at the sign I'm cheering for ya....have yall dropped any weight on the backpacks

@transcendenttraipsing

Ай бұрын

Oh yes! We are into our summer set up now. Jen’s weighed about 20 with food. Mine is down to around 26 or 28 with food.

That was, in fact, poison ivy. My ID app confirmed it.

I looked up poison ivy on Wikipedia and the pictures I found there don't match the plant you show at 18:07. In Wikipedia, poison ivy leaves are similar to oak leaves. Then I tried to identify the image from point 18:07 in the video using Google Lens, but unfortunately there are many possibilities. Best regards and happy trails!

@transcendenttraipsing

Ай бұрын

Thanks for looking it up!

That looks like poison ivy to me. Some of it you could see was viney like it is. Never saw it stick out that was but still looks like it. If you keep contact to a minimum and do your best to limit exposure you’ll be okay. It’s when you tear into it not realizing and get a big dose that your body reacts and then going forward you’ll be more susceptible to reaction and rash.

I would say, absolutely poison ivy

@transcendenttraipsing

Ай бұрын

Thanks

I am blessed by not being allergic to poison ivy, but the tall grasses are teeming with biting insects. It's awful, and swarms of black flies that bite as well. You are about to get eaten alive. It's up to you to decide if it's worth it.

What do you mean you don’t have elevations on NH? What about the whites? 😅 you have the hardest part of the trail right in your backyard to train!

@transcendenttraipsing

Ай бұрын

In NH we step up, like stairs. These trails are smooth and slanted steeply uphill.