New Logo for Team TNT!

New Team TNT Logo

 Dreamer here,

A huge thank-you and job well done to Jessica Kerbawy for creating the new Team TNT Logo!!  Jessica worked very hard assisting us with it’s creativity and workmanship!  We sure do appreciate it Jessica!

Many of you may be wondering, “What are you going to do with this logo and how will you be using it?”  Well, I am glad you asked.  That is a good question!  Obviously, we will use it on our Blog, Facebook, White Blaze and Twitter pages; however, the real reason is to use it in the trail journals while we are hiking.

Let me take a step back here to explain how trail journals are used on the Appalachian Trail (AT).  There are approximately 250 shelters on the AT, spaced about 12 – 15 miles apart.  These shelters are usually crude three-sided structures with a wood floor.  There are five things that are normally found in or near the shelters: shelter from the weather when needed, a picnic table, a water source, places to set up a tent, and a trail journal.

Trail journals are usually a spiral notebook that can normally be found inside the shelter or in a weather resistant box of some kind.  Most everyone that comes near a trail journal writes something in it.  They contain the big news of the day.  Sometimes the news is actually news from hikers coming from the opposite direction; with what is happening up the trail, what to watch out for, water source information, good food up ahead, etc.  Normally, the entries in the journals are the ramblings & musings of oxygen, society, food deprived, homesick, tired and hurting hikers.  You can expect to read and see (many artists on the trail drawing the most beautiful pictures) most anything!

Team TNT will also be adding our musings to these journals.  In doing so, it is helpful to make your entry stand out in some way.  We intend to do this with our logo, actually a sticker.  When we begin to make our entry, we’ll first stick our sticker in the book.  That way others will be able to find our entries that much faster while leafing through the pages of many others.  While hiking on the AT a couple years ago in Virginia, we discovered that finding something unique that sticks out is helpful and attractive.

Thanks again Jessica!

~Dreamer