Magic is the impossible come to life. Thru-hikers along the Appalachian and Pacific Crest trails find it all the time: coolers of Cokes, boxes of Snickers, spare socks in an ammo tin. Right on the trail, hundreds of miles from…
Roan High Bluff Overlook must be seen to be believed. Assuming there’s anything to see. The bluff is perched on an outcrop 6200 feet up in the Roan Highlands, one of the most storied locales in the Southern Appalachian Range.…
Alert reader Jeremiah Kemper pointed me to Ben and Lauren’s 2007 Adventure. Their latest post is from Erwin, Tennessee (mile 338.7), so there’s lots more hiking — and, more importantly, blogging — to go as they travel north. I found…
Leonard Adkins on the changing terrain, and changing weather, of the Appalachian Trail: We started in the morning beside the Pigeon River at an elevation of 1,400 feet above sea level. Rising on the pathway that was sometimes going uphill…
Leonard M. Adkins is about to begin his fifth thru-hike of the Appalachian Trail. The Charleston, W.Va., Daily Mail has a nice profile. It’s his wife’s fourth time, and his dog’s second. He made it 900 miles on the first…
From a recent Akron Beacon-Journal report: Josh Wengerd is taking steps — millions of them, in fact — to raise awareness about a Stark County group that helps people who can’t afford their prescription medicines. Starting next month, the 23-year-old…
Old Goat put together this video slide show of his Appalachian Trail adventure last year. Pretty cool!
This story from the Washington Post earlier this week tells of a project to monitor the health of the Appalachian Trail, the idea being that as the ecosystem along the trail goes, so goes the whole Eastern Seaboard. An example…
A couple of southbound Appalachian Trail hikers are U.S. Air Force veterans, one of whom was shot several times during a rescue mission overseas. Several surgeries later he’s in fine hiking form; he and his traveling partner created trailtorecovery.org to…
