Hello all,

My first post here.

I have always been a day hiker, but my wife and I would like to branch out into doing some weekend hikes and then build up to doing a week long hike.

We live in Georgia, so I'm guessing some chunk of the Appalachian Trail will be involved.

After a back injury I'm just not in the shape I used to be, and so I'm working back up slowly and trying to figure out a good way to build up to longer hikes again focused on getting up to multiple day hikes up to a week.

Right now we hike one night after work at RedTop Mountain in GA, and one day at Kennesaw Mountain in GA, but these hikes are really only 3.5 miles which is pretty light.

What would some experienced hikers advice be to build up to weekend hikes, and then eventually to doing an entire week?

Many thanks,

Lance