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The First Third
We’ve hiked 870 miles of the Appalachian Trail. That’s more than one third! (By 140 miles if you’re looking for specifics.) Bill Bryson, considered an authority on the AT based on his wildly popular book A Walk in the Woods, only hiked a third…
High Alert & High Adventure
Realistic expectations are a good defense against disappointment, so when planning our thru-hike, we read as much as we could about what we should expect. Several previous hikers said that life on the Trail is constant misery, or at the very least mild discomfort,…
Hitched and Hiking!
by Lindsey Rudibaugh My family has a long tradition of celebrating the first day of spring with a picnic. No matter the weather, my mom loads up picnic baskets with chicken salad sandwiches, a variety of other mayonnaise-based dishes, puppy chow, root beer, what…
Walking and Dangerous
by Lindsey Rudibaugh Once upon a time, Travis got a haircut he really liked. Then, as he reports happens too often, the woman who gave him this great haircut told him she was leaving that particular salon. He sat there in her chair, taking in…
