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“The trail itself hasn’t changed much, but everything around it has.”
“My fondest memories of the hike speak to that simplicity, and to the unmatched freedom that sprang from it.”
“Some days, when my burden seemed especially heavy, I thought of little else.”
“I began hiking on the A.T.”
“Titled “A Tunnel through Time: The Appalachian Trail,” the story was the first I read that explained through-hiking in detail—not to mention in lyrical, wonderfully descriptive prose.”
“It lit a fire in me.”
“My shoulders, hips, and feet ached even while I slept.”
“I missed my girlfriend.”
“When my journey ended 157 days later, I’d taken an estimated five million more—and in so doing, had traipsed nearly 2,200 miles across fourteen states.”
“I imagined myself striding over windblown mountain peaks, sturdy-legged and resolute.”
“Here and there, the path ran level and soft underfoot, and the walking felt nearly effortless.”
“I woke up in the woods.”
“His most recent book, Hell Put to Shame , was a finalist for the Edgar Award (Best Fact Crime) and the Virginia Literary Award.”
“All of that is window dressing next to the biggest change of all: I am more than twice as old as I was the first time around.”
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“Deepened my passion for the wilds, and graced me with know-how I have used ever since.”
“Some days, the weight of that pack had me convinced that I would not, could not, finish the walk.”
“I broke camp.”
“A second hike would be a very different experience from my first.”
“The next day I hiked ten miles to the edge of a sprawling state park surrounding the mountain, bid my girlfriend goodbye—“There are a lot of people counting on you to come home,” she told me.”