Yes we were!

@@abigailloucks9157 I can't thank you enough, you saved my trip from disaster. The backpack was still there when I got to Hartsburg, all my valuable and essential gear untouched. I had an awesome week afterwards finishing the trail and exploring St Louis, and I owe it to you 🙏

@@jhut258 Oh good!!!! I’m so glad everything worked out! :D

We chose an the Alumacraft canoe for multiple reasons. Trust me when I say that it did not slow us down one bit.

@@abigailloucks9157 Can you elaborate on the reasons you chose the aluminum canoe? Have you paddled a kevlar canoe?

Yes!

Aytchie Jansen Maybe that will be my next video! :D

gumfoil - It took us 6 night/7 days. It was pretty sweet to be in the Everglades for a week, the conditions were quite nice. Not too hot and not too buggy.

I use a Sony DSC-WX350.

thank you . I will check it out,

David Newman, We biked around Tree Tops Park, Pine Island Ridge, Robbins Park, Long Key Nature Center, and Vista View Park. My friend In the video is from Cooper City, I am currently not. But it is a beautiful area to bike around.

Nope, the only permits issued are for overnight camping.

Pepper and Cricket Outdoors it took us 98 days starting Jan 1st and ending April 7th. Good for you guys!!

Abigail Chambers that is great....Pepper has been pushing us to do more and I'm happy for that

To be honest the only areas where we did NOT get wet (excluding rain) were Ocala NF, Pensacola Gulf Island National Seashore, Lake O, Citrus and Croom Track, and all of the road walks (haha..). We had wet feet almost daily everywhere else, BUT wet feet for us meant no blisters and lots of drinking water.

The deep water portions, in the beginning of the video, were in Kissimmee FL. Approximately around the second-third week of January. We first arrived, going northbound, at the ranger station and campground of Kissimmee Prairie Preserve. The rangers themselves said that we would be swimming and identified a longer route to bypass the slough, but we decided to go forward and get soaking wet. It was terrifying, but exhilarating.

"terrifying". I can imagine. I'm planning a section hike in Big Cypress some time soon but with all the rain we have had recently I'm not sure I want to spend 3-4 days swimming. Any advice?

Not just the rain, but the mosquito population will be in full swarm. I would wait till November, by then the summer precipitation should have slowed and it will be cooler/less buggy. The water levels should have dropped by the Fall.

Thank you :))

Well... It was chest deep in Kissimmee . We swam across the river in Eglin AFB. The Blackwater River rose several feet deep causing us to swim one section of the trail. Overall I think our feet were wet almost every day. It was great!

Hey! Thanks for taking an interest in my video! Other resources... well the FL Trail Guide by Sandra Friend was extremely helpful when planning food drops and pickups. Another resource, was the FL Trail Facebook page for Class of 2016 where all of the thru and section hikers posted updates and photos. My trip in particular, I have a spreadsheet of our tentative day by day schedule (which we rarely followed) but it was good to keep us on track. I kept a personal daily journal of my trip and I would encourage you to do the same for any outing, because it's great to look back on what inspired or amazed you back then that you might have forgotten about. Thanks for sharing!! That's amazing to hear about your experience in Gainesville! We were only fortunate enough to see horse/buffalo feces haha... But It's wonderful to know that they are out there! Thanks for all of the compliments :)

We both had Osprey packs, Merrell boots, an MSR Wisperlight stove, Thermorest Z-Pads, 1 person Easton Mtn. Rimrock tent (me), 2 person Big Agnes tent (Cody), first aid kit, pocket knives, headlamps (mine was a Black Diamond), a pump filter which soon broke and we bought a Sawyer instead, two hats, clothes, rain jackets, water bottles (Nalgene), a spoon each, one pot, two cups, toiletries... and some other miscellaneous items. On average our packs were 25-50lbs depending on our food. I encourage not only you, but everyone else to get out there and have an adventure too!

+Abigail Chambers Looks like Atmos 65 if i'm not mistaken?