Six years later, on May 5, 2022, Benerofe completed one of the most challenging, isolated, and frigid feats of American distance hiking: a southbound ... to the Appalachian Trail Conservancy ...

The Appalachian Trail is one of America's premier long trails and the longest hiking-only footpath in the world. Traveling south, it runs 2,189 miles from Mount Katahdin in Maine, to Springer ...

“I vowed not to thru-hike again and was pretty bummed.” Of course, she did not keep to her vow. I met Dower on the Appalachian Trail back in 2019, when we were both 200 miles into our ...

Over the past few years, the Appalachian Trail has experienced everything ... Just a handful of hikers reported the intent to ...

Stretching more than 2,190 miles across 14 different states, the Appalachian Trail may be the best long-distance hiking route in the entire world. Each year, three million people trek at least a ...

Everest 16 times. Still, more than 3,000 people attempt to thru-hike the Appalachian Trail every year, according to the Appalachian Trail Conservancy. Only a quarter make it the whole way.

“Mad Dog” hiking southbound on the Appalachian Trail. “I didn’t realize that there wouldn’t be switchbacks and it would be straight up and downhill. The rocks, the roots, the ...