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by Kevin Gallagher

5 months ago

1. Green Tunnel

by Kevin Gallagher

1 year ago

Green Tunnel- A six month journey along the 2,200 mile long Appalachian Trail, condensed and reinterpreted into five minutes of stop-motion.
A full quality version is available for purchase on DVD. Go to smtgltd.bigcartel.com/ and look for it on Stephen Vitiello: Soundtracks.

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BlueDog 11 months ago

Very nice! Thanks for the journey. I'm curious to identify some of the points at certain times
cmerry 11 months ago

Always a dream to hike this trail but have not been able to thank you for this wonderful film
Tim Warneka 11 months ago

I'm with cmerry. I've always wanted to hike the AT. Haven't been able to yet. Hope to do so someday.
Jason Bourne 11 months ago

Nice work. Have you ever seen the movie 'Last of the Mohicans'? Your video would be epic if you put music from it's soundtrack with it. Check it out.
samh 11 months ago

I've always wanted to see a timelapse of a thru-hike on one of America's long distance trails. Thanks for sharing.
Hank Leukart 11 months ago

Awesome. My brother and I just did the Everest Base Camp trek (vimeo.com/20556634 ) and wish we had done a time lapse like this. Maybe Appalachian Trail should be next for us!
Rebecca Prendergast 11 months ago

Awesome video! Though, as a 2010 MEGA I must say that your video makes the trail look like a nice little jaunt in the park, ha! So, maybe a little bit of false advertising but a very cool video that made me smile :-) THANKS
Jeff Walden 11 months ago

But that's all it was, wasn't it? I mean, those rocky trails in Pennsylvania sure felt like just a walk in the park, right? :-D (Although, speaking as a 2008 MEGA [southbound for life!], Pennsylvania was neither as tedious nor as difficult as everyone heading north made it out to be.)

Is that the Moose Mountain privy in your profile picture, I think?
Rebecca Prendergast 10 months ago

Oh I don't know, I hated Pennsylvania. It is the most pointless state in my opinion, all rocks, next to no good views. Plus I had a package get sent to a place no longer in business & church mice cost me about $50 in gear and food at the Delaware Water Gap; kinda one of "those" states. Luckily I had some pretty awesome trail magic by some people I met in that state that made it more bearable. And yes, I believe that is Moose Mountain privy, I just remember it being near Dartmouth, made by the Dartmouth students. I couldn't help but get a candid shot on the open air throne!
2bnMaine 11 months ago

What a great idea! We sure live in a beautiful country. Thanks!
jeremiah greco 11 months ago

Loved it. I can try and reference a few frames:

Bear Mtn Bridge, NY is at 2:39
Mt Greylock, MA is at 2:46
Mt Washington, NH at 3:34 ?
Kevin Gallagher 11 months ago

Close!
That's the bridge coming into Palmerton, PA and the monument at 2:46 is the NJ highpoint.

Thanks for watching!
jeremiah greco 11 months ago

I took a swing and whiffed! Timing makes more sense now. Makes me excited for summer hikes.
Scott Mestrezat 11 months ago

This idea occurred to me recently and I was really hoping someone would do exactly this. Well done! Hopefully I will stumble upon a similar thing done with the Mississippi River.
Bill S. 11 months ago

Kevin this is a terriic video! Nicely done!

At 0:41, was that an animal (a wolf?!) peering at you on the left side of the trail or treebark arrayed into a menacing pattern?

At what point in this did you hit the area around my hometown of Roanoke, Va., which are the only segments of the AT that I've hiked. Perhaps you recall The Priest, the Hanging Rock, the mountain meadow, and the offshoot to your right for the Horsehoe Crab Falls?

What was up with the snowstorms early on? Were those the mountain emanations of the dual Snowmaggedon and Snowpocalypse storms that hit close to the shores in February 2010?

Lovely video. I may buy a couple of copies for my family.
Kevin Gallagher 11 months ago

Hey Bill,

Unfortunately, the only critters in the film are hikers. Most animals just run away in the backcountry.

The bridge you see at 2:00 crosses over the Tye River which is right near between all those lovely spots near the Priest and Three-Ridges. And snow is the pits but it looks so good...

Thanks for watching!
Bill S. 11 months ago

Oh and why did you decide to walk north? It seemed desolate at the start and then boom! green began appearing.
Kevin Gallagher 11 months ago

As the first AT thru-hiker Earl Shaffer put it, walking north lets you walk with spring, "the woods are at their finest, with the budding and leafing of trees, the blooming of flowers, the full flowing streams and waterfalls, the rainswept blue of the sky..."
Jeff Walden 11 months ago

Most people walk north, one reason being that apparently some dread the (not-hard) deadline of winter less than they dread the (fuzzy but hard) deadline of Katahdin closing. You see and hike with more people, trail culture is much more active in the south in springtime than in fall as a result, and of course some will prefer fresh springtime to colorful fall.

A lot of the people who walk south do it because that's the way that fits their schedules: a lot are people just graduating from college, say. But southbounding has its advantages depending what you value: fewer people and more solitude (although you're still around a decent number of others heading south), fewer ticks, no deadline if you're fine hiking in cold to wintry weather, and so on. Every impression I've gotten, however, is that the two directions are *very* different hikes, and one way might be best for one person and the other best for another.
Sam Morrill 11 months ago

Amazing. Would love to do this someday.
Dominic Pace 11 months ago

Much respect.. I've been touring the country, but in a different way.. Visiting all famous Movie Locations.. youtube.com/watch?v=ygTrI6_fflo That was awesome though.. Where did you eat? Rest?
Mark Booth 11 months ago

Thanks for the memories Kevin. I enjoyed re-living my 2005 thru hike and was able to name almost all the areas shown. I live in the Smokys and will do a little trail magic starting in the next few weeks.
John Chilton 11 months ago

Excellent work!! Brought me right back -- now have Springer fever (is the season)

Lurk GA*ME 2000
ericp 11 months ago

As someone who walked from Shenandoah to Springer in '05 it's crazy how familiar the first half looks vs. the second. A lotta trail left to discover. Thanks for this!
Rich Shipley 11 months ago

Very nice idea. I might like to do that on some hikes. I'm curious what camera you used and what intervals.
Brian Amrhein 11 months ago

I found your video through a Wired news link. wired.com/playbook/2011/03/video-appalachian-trail/
I was looking at your photo, thinking that guy looks familiar. Then I realized who it was... we had some classes together at VCU and worked on a few projects afterward in Richmond.
Cool video!
Greg Malone 11 months ago

Bravo! What a trip. Thanks, man. Just what I needed. And what a joy for you. Saw it on Wired. I know the pleasure of the trail.
Roberto Serrini 11 months ago

posted at zenfaster.com
RDJim 11 months ago

Makes me want to go for a hike. Always wanted to do this as a project. This is the closest I've come:
vimeo.com/5778981
Joe Smith 11 months ago

Spectacular! Thanks for this.
Robert Kent 11 months ago

I was a 2009 MEGA, loved the video, very fun way to re-live the adventure. Definitely captures the "long green tunnel" aspect of a thru-hike!

Cheers,

3StoveTEX
ME--->GA
2009
Andrew Cayer 11 months ago

I definitely need to hike at least part of the AT before I expire. I would love to do the whole thing at once, but I feel as though it would be tough to get time off for that...
Joseph Gamble 11 months ago

Great stuff. I was a MEGA 1999. Well done.
Opie Adventures 11 months ago

Anyone see Hot Springs NC? there's a walk bridge over a road going into town. Doesn't the AT cross the BR Parkway? Where? Nice video, you are a champion for completing the trip and documenting so much of it in this way.
Official Hype 11 months ago

Props for actually doing this, must've been a tough, long journey. Good Work! It got featured on officialhype!

officialhype.org/2011/03/video-green-tunnel-by-kevin-gallagher.html
GregZ 11 months ago

Did I miss Harpers Ferry?
Bridge at Delaware Water Gap?

Thanks!
Greg
Philip Han 11 months ago

I can't believe this...

It must have been physically exhausting, to edit this!
COLONi. 11 months ago

It could be a cool video, if were made by a High quality camera. Cause the idea was interesting...
And its a litlle boring so.
Buck Perley 11 months ago

Awesome, man. Nice job. Sigh... I miss those white blazes! I was actually A MEGA in 2005. What was your trail name? I'm Heehaw, hiked with the Sobohobos from about Delaware Water Gap to the end.
Jared Kay | Amplified Media 11 months ago

Great work. Think I recognize a few areas near us.
Max Patch NC, and Grayson Highlands VA?

Cant wait to get on the trail...
Emory Cullen 11 months ago

Im not trying to be emotional and all, but this just about brought tears to my eyes. I thru-hiked in 04 and this film just brought back a flood of memories and emotions. Amazing video! Congrats on getting to Katahdin!
Robert Brown 11 months ago

Wonderful. Where would we learn some technical details? Camera, mount, batteries? How did you manage it all for such a long time and under such conditions? What was the frame acquisition time interval? Please. Inquiring minds want to know.
Noulee 11 months ago

hmm... sure would like to hike this trail. I actually thought about making something visually similar while I was walking the St. James' Way for 3 months - but endet up with a totally different result:
vimeo.com/16138520
But then again: different visuals for different walks (and different experiences)
Mathias Eis Schultz 11 months ago

I wanna see the whole movie!
Tom Davenport 11 months ago

What an awesome project. It gives pleasure to those of us who are restricted to the flatland of Texas for 10 months a year. Thanks
richard dodson 11 months ago

That was just a superb video,am very tempted to buy the full version as it was it all over too soon ;-)
TheBIT.TV 11 months ago

Very well done. Music goes really well
Joe Moya 11 months ago

cool...
Andri Egilsson 11 months ago

How was this done?
Francis Tapon 11 months ago

The video thumbnail still looks more like the White Tunnel.... ;)
Nadine Henry 11 months ago

Thank you for this!! Lost my thru-hike journals last year to water damage. Still have the visual/mental memories watching this.
Jasen Eige 11 months ago

This is great....have you thought about entering it into Banff Mountain Film Festival?
Brandon Jones 11 months ago

would love to see it in HD
Konstantin Kulitschka 11 months ago

das ist wundervoll. /
that's wonderfull, it hat some appeal to the stomach. "tunnel" is a brilliant summarization of the feelings the clip implies.
Firespire Productions 11 months ago

: ) That's awesome.
Larry Cebula 11 months ago

I through-hiked in 1980 and this sure brought back some memories. Thanks.
Brad Herring 11 months ago

Wow, what memories! We were shouting out the sections as they popped up! Loved it...but it could stand some new music.

Heman and Detour GAME 2002
Beau Faulkner 11 months ago

Thanks for the flashbacks!

Rochambeau GA-ME '99
Trudy Gonzalez 11 months ago

I enjoyed your film! The closest I have gotten to hiking this trail was reading "A Walk In the Woods"... maybe one day!
Thank you!
Parker Herrin 11 months ago

Hey Kevin,

I wrote a neat post about thru-hiking the AT on my personal blog and highlighted your video, which is amazing.

godandthemountains.wordpress.com/2011/03/23/the-enigmatic-journey-that-is-the-long-green-tunnel/
Kevin Gallagher 11 months ago

Thanks for reposting. I enjoyed checking out your site. See you out in the mountains one day.
Casey Stewart 11 months ago

this is great. did you shoot on film?
Kevin Gallagher 10 months ago

Sure did, Fuji Sensia 200.
Chase Schiefer 10 months ago

2:11 Little Stony Man Cliffs in Shenandoah?
Kevin Gallagher 10 months ago

Bingo. Nice job!
anthonypalacios 10 months ago

how long did that take!
DD Galletle 9 months ago

more di più amore più Di Più amore ulterior
Denis Guzzo 8 months ago

amazing experince first of all! if You don' t know it check out Jean Gabriel Periot, there is a fantastic short called 'dies irae' where in the beginning he write:

'remember, that I am the couse of your journey, don't lose me on that day'.

best

Denis
Rod Hatfield 6 months ago

Well done ! Made a dream come true for me since likely will not ever get to do the trail and always wanted to hike it !!
Adam Wayland 4 months ago

Awesome! Glad I finally got to see this. Nice work. Really captivating. Such a simple concept, but so difficult to execute. And you did it perfectly. Really enjoyed it. Hope your enjoying Colorado. Cheers.
Kevin Zierath 2 months ago

Fantastic!
The Muir Project 2 weeks ago

Fantastic, Kevin.
Vaughan Greene 1 day ago

Very well done and cool soundtrack
Tree Man 1 day ago

GAME in 94 and that is Laurel Fork Creek low-water trail at 1:21. Thanks for the share and happy trails to ya!