It was 2:30 a.m. on Monday, Feb. 18, 2019, and Halo Fernandez couldn’t sleep. It had been 38 degrees the day before, and in a few hours, he would begin his dream of climbing the 2,192 mile Appalachian Trail.  “The morning was chilly but clear and not raining,” Fernandez wrote in his 2019 Appalachian Trail Journal. “My lovely wife and father-in-law took pictures and … [Read more...]