{"id":1030,"date":"2007-02-27T09:17:08","date_gmt":"2007-02-27T14:17:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/?p=1030"},"modified":"2007-12-03T13:20:31","modified_gmt":"2007-12-03T21:20:31","slug":"habitual-hiker-profiled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/2007\/02\/27\/habitual-hiker-profiled\/","title":{"rendered":"Habitual Hiker profiled"},"content":{"rendered":"

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. <\/a> It’s his wife’s fourth time, and his dog’s second. He made it 900 miles on the first try before packing it in.<\/p>\n

“I was in for a real shock,” he recalled of his first days in Georgia. The beginning and end of the trail are the most difficult to traverse, with rough trails and huge altitude changes.<\/p>\n

“I intended on doing the whole thing. But I only did 900 miles.”<\/p>\n

“Because I didn’t know what to expect, in lots of ways I sort of fought the trail,” he said. “It defeated me.”<\/p>\n

The story could have ended there, but that trail stayed in Adkins’ head. He returned to Charleston and his job at the electronics store.<\/p>\n

“March rolled around and I started to get the urge to finish what I started,” he said. He asked his boss for time off — and got five months. He began where he’d left off the year before, and this time he succeeded.<\/p>\n

“It was like something had really changed in me and I’m not sure how to describe it,” he said. “Something had happened to me over the winter. I started thinking every day is a day hike. And I’m having fun. And the next day is another day hike.<\/p>\n

“The next thing I knew, the trail was over with.<\/p>\n

“It was a total difference. And from then on, I was hooked.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Leonard’s Web site is here<\/a>: He plans to hike 10 miles a day this time and spend most of 2007 taking his time along the trail.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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…<\/p>\n

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