Walking with Spring
- ISBN-10
- 0917953118
- ISBN-13
- 9780917953118
- Pages
- 160
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1996-06
- Publisher
- Appalachian Trail Conference
- Author
- Earl Shaffer
Description
In 1948, the Appalachian Trail had been a continuous, 2,000-mile foot-path for 11 years, but no one had walked its length alone in a continuous journey -- until Earl Shaffer, a quiet Pennsylvanian, became the first of what is now more than 5,600 A.T. "thru-hikers" and a hiking legend, walking from Georgia to Maine as spring arrived to each area. In 1998, he hiked again as a 50th-anniversary celebration, to far greater publicity.
