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Appalachian Trail
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If you turn left at the next logging road, he said, and walk a quarter of a mile, you come to a dock on a lake, with an air horn hanging off it. You honk the air horn, and someone comes and picks you up in a boat, and they take you to this place where there's pizza and showers and cold beer!
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― Southbound
― Southbound
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The trail was designed to have no end, a wild place on which to be comfortably lost for as long as one desired. In those early days nobody fathomed walking the thing from beginning to end in one go. Section hikes, yes. Day hikes, too. But losing yourself for five months, measuring your body against the earth, fingering the edge of mental and physical endurance, wasn’t the point. The trail was to be considered in sections, like a cow is divided into cuts of beef. Even if you sample every slice, t
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― Grandma Gatewood's Walk: The Inspiring Story of the Woman Who Saved the Appalachian Trail
― Grandma Gatewood's Walk: The Inspiring Story of the Woman Who Saved the Appalachian Trail
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