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Panoramic view of the Potomac River taken from Weverton Cliffs looking west/southwest. Edward B. Garvey (November 13, 1914 [1] in Farmington, Minnesota [2] – September 20, 1999, at Arlington Hospital in Virginia [3] of congestive heart failure) [4] thru-hiked the Appalachian Trail in 1970 and in 1971 published a book about his adventure, Appalachian Hiker, that raised awareness of thru-hiking.
The Appalachian Long Distance Hikers Association is a non-profit organization founded in 1983 to support and promote the interests of long-distance hikers in the Appalachian mountain area and east of the Mississippi. It "was the first organization of long-distance hikers in the United States". [1]
The International Appalachian Trail (IAT; French: Sentier international des Appalaches, SIA) was originally a hiking trail which ran from Katahdin Woods and Waters National Monument, in Maine, through New Brunswick, to the Gaspé Peninsula of Quebec, after which it followed a ferry route to Newfoundland, and then continued to the northern-easternmost point of the Appalachian Mountains at Belle ...
Hikers are urged to avoid northbound mile 0.0 on Georgia’s Springer Mountain to mile 864.6 in Rockfish Gap, Virginia, following Helene. “Although not all areas in this section are officially ...
Jennifer Pharr Davis is a long distance hiker from the United States of America who serves on the President's Council for Sports, Fitness, and Nutrition. She has been called "the Serena Williams of long distance hiking" by Baratunde Thurston (PBS America Outdoors) and is also an author, speaker, National Geographic Adventurer of the Year, and Ambassador for the American Hiking Society. [1]
Warren Doyle (born 1950) became interested in hiking while attending Southern Connecticut State College.He had spent one summer after his junior year volunteering in the mountains of Jamaica and the next year on the edge of the coalfields in southwest West Virginia; the latter enabled him to meet, and be mentored by, the noted Appalachian activist/educator/poet Don West.
Colin Fletcher (photograph, John Sexton/Appalachian Long Distance Hikers Association) Colin Fletcher (14 March 1922 – 12 June 2007) was a pioneering backpacker and writer. In 1963, Fletcher walked the length of that portion of Grand Canyon contained within the 1963 boundaries of Grand Canyon National Park .
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