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Mike and I started training in Letchworth State Park, south of Rochester, NY, in preparation for hiking the High Peaks. My desire is to keep a journal of our hiking adventures and felt that there is no better way to do that than by using the Internet so that our journal could be shared with relatives, friends and acquaintances that we meet along the way. The name of our web site is sort of a take off from the title of a book by Bill Bryson, “A Walk in the Woods”, © 1998 by Bill Bryson and published in paperback in 1999 by Broadway Books, a division of Random House, Inc. From the back jacket of the paperback, “Back in America after twenty years in Britain, Bill Bryson decided to reacquaint himself with his native country by walking the 2,100-mile Appalachian Trail, which stretches from Georgia to Maine.” The book is a wonderful combination of adventure, comedy and a celebration. However, to my disappointment, Bill actually only covers about 870 miles of the AT. Our plan is to thru-hike the entire AT from Georgia to Maine and hence where Bill took “A Walk in the Woods”, we’re taking a “Long” Walk in the Woods.
As we pursue our plans and complete our hikes we will be recording them here. We hope you enjoy taking this adventure with us. Thanks for your interest, Tom & Mike Wemett

Hi, I’m Tom Wemett. Thank you for visiting my personal hiking web site. My son, Mike, and I decided to start some hiking adventures in 2003 and began with hikes of 6 of the 46 High Peaks (4000+ feet) of the New York State Adirondack Mountains. It has continued in 2004 with our section hiking the Northville-Placid Trail in the Adirondack Mountains and may culminate in the ultimate thru-hike of the 2100+ mile Appalachian Trail in 2007.