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It's a little late to recount the hike blow by blow from day 1, so I'll just say that March (all of it) was freezing, snowy (postholing anyone?), slushy, rainy, sleety, wintry mix-y, windy and foggy -- usually all at once.  In the Smokies it was so wet and cold that the trees (and everything else) had huge ice crystals growing horizontally in the direction of the wind.  April has been hot, dry, buggy and generally awesome.  We saw our last snow on the Humps in TN then 2 days later it was 90+ F on the ridge and Johnson City TN set a heat record.  So didi Damascus VA a few days later.  
Anyway, it's been a pretty sparse crew of thru-hikers that flipped ol' man winter the bird and slogged on through, so I actually know the names of most of the folks in front of and around me.  So here's a semicomplete list in no special order, and maybe I'll elaborate on some of them later:
Cowboy
Snow White
Subby
Snow Plow/Rooster
Appleseed
Branch
Rocker
40oz
Camp Chair
Vish
Cricket
Kit
Cake
Stilts
Li'l Buddha
Frisbee
Tattoo Joe
Eric D
Roadrunner
Crash Course
Silver
Ghost
Olaf/Hermann
Shakespeare

That's all for now, sure I'll have more later.

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