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.