The first time Tara Dower set out to thru-hike the Appalachian Trail, in 2017, she had a panic attack. She felt alone and overwhelmed just eight days after setting off from the trail’s southern ...
MARS HILL - In January, the United States Forest Service and Appalachian Trail Conservancy presented a proposal to decommission and tear down the Overmountain Shelter barn, a once-popular Appalachian ...
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Rounding out our summer re-run series, here’s a column from 2023 about a most determined hiker! Five years ago now, Diana Jackson was walking 2,192 miles. The Darien native is one of over 3,300 people ...
What the public knew about Emma Gatewood was already remarkable. She was the first woman to hike the entire Appalachian Trail by herself in one season. She was 67 years old, a mother of 11, a ...
Geraldine Largay, a 66-year-old retired Air Force nurse and seasoned hiker, set out on a northbound thru-hike of the Appalachian Trail in July 2013. Known on the trail as ”Inchworm” for her slow but ...
A 60-year-old hiker from North Carolina was found alive days after she disappeared along the Appalachian Trail in Connecticut, officials said Friday. Marta Renee Bowen was located several miles south ...
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