Tales From The Trail Stories From The Oldest Hiker Hostel On The Appalachian Trail

Author : Sherry Blackman
Publisher : MindStir Media
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2021-12-06
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 1737628732

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Tales from the Trail: Stories from the Oldest Hiker Hostel on the Appalachian Trail by Sherry Blackman Pdf

During the 2020 pandemic, one thing held true: Scores of people headed out for a day hike on the Appalachian Trail (AT) as if being in the woods, immersed in beauty and mystery, immunized them against an invisible enemy. The AT became a hospital for souls locked up in quarantine, needing to breathe, stretch, and be grounded by the earth beneath their feet. For decades, the AT has been a sanctuary for seekers, the tired and the lost; those hungry for renewal, the broken and the grieving; and those who want to face and answer questions they have lugged around with them in invisible backpacks. Questions like, what is next for me? Is there a God? Should I live or end it all? How can I liberate my life from what weighs it down? How can I forgive God? This book pays tribute to all those who dare such a grueling and soul-satisfying adventure. It tells the tales of those on a pilgrimage through insightful conversations and encounters, exploring and revealing what angels the hikers are wrestling with in the wilderness, angels who call out to name them again. This collection unveils the spirituality of any such journey in sometimes humorous, sometimes heart-wrenching portraits. Tales from the Trail explores the longings within us to lose our life, only to find it.

Author : Earl Victor Shaffer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Appalachian Trail
ISBN : 0917953843

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Walking with Spring by Earl Victor Shaffer Pdf

The author's account of his four-month hike in 1948 of the entire length of the Appalachian Trail.

Author : Juliana Chauncey
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2020-03-14
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0578635143

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Hiking from Home by Juliana Chauncey Pdf

Hiking From Home: A Long-Distance Hiking Guide for Family and Friends is an informative guide for those supporting a long-distance hiker. It explains the basics of long-distance hiking, addresses safety concerns, outlines ways to stay in touch and remain supportive, and includes quotes from previous hikers and supporters.

Author : Clay Bonnyman Evans
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2020-08-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1735396818

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The Trail is the Teacher by Clay Bonnyman Evans Pdf

An account of the author's 2016 thru-hike of the 2,190-mile Appalachian Trail.

Author : Debra Smith
Publisher : Stackpole Books
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780811705981

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Great Stories of Hiking the Appalachian Trail by Debra Smith Pdf

Stories of the original trailblazers and the first thruhikers. Reprinted from the out-of-print Rodale 2-volume Hiking the Appalachian Trail (1975). New foreword by Dave Startzell, executive director of the Appalachian Trail Conservancy.

Author : Ben Montgomery
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Appalachian Trail
ISBN : OCLC:1059292740

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Grandma Gatewood's Walk [book Club Kit] by Ben Montgomery Pdf

"Emma Gatewood told her family she was going on a walk and left her small Ohio hometown with a change of clothes and less than two hundred dollars. The next anybody heard from her, this genteel, farm-reared, 67-year-old great-grandmother had walked 800 miles along the 2,050-mile Appalachian Trail. And in September 1955, having survived a rattlesnake strike, two hurricanes, and a run-in with gangsters from Harlem, she stood atop Maine's Mount Katahdin. There she sang the first verse of "America, the Beautiful" and proclaimed, "I said I'll do it, and I've done it." Grandma Gatewood, as the reporters called her, became the first woman to hike the entire Appalachian Trail alone, as well as the first person--man or woman--to walk it twice and three times. Gatewood became a hiking celebrity and appeared on TV and in the pages of Sports Illustrated. The public attention she brought to the little-known footpath was unprecedented. Her vocal criticism of the lousy, difficult stretches led to bolstered maintenance, and very likely saved the trail from extinction. Author Ben Montgomery was given unprecedented access to Gatewood's own diaries, trail journals, and correspondence, and interviewed surviving family members and those she met along her hike, all to answer the question so many asked: Why did she do it? The story of Grandma Gatewood will inspire readers of all ages by illustrating the full power of human spirit and determination."-- From publisher's description.

Author : Jim Dashiell
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2016-12-07
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1540893448

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One Trail Many Paths by Jim Dashiell Pdf

The Appalachian Trail was beautiful, evil, demanding but forgiving. It taught us the importance of individuality, luck and determination. The best lesson, however, was the value of each person who hiked it, maintained it, and provided trail magic to the random anonymous hiker. We're all family on the Trail. Shared hardships act as a bond. This book offers observations of the same experiences from a variety of viewpoints complete with the good and bad memories. From a married couple, a father-son team, sisters, a hostel owner, a Marine who just finished his military career, a retired orthopedic surgeon, an Australian long distance hiker, young, middle-aged and senior men and women.....all have their stories to tell. If you like fun, adventure, raw emotion, and honesty you'll find it all in these chapters. Because each author can't tell their whole story they must condense their trail experience to events most meaningful to them. As you will see, we all suffered, rejoiced, were disappointed, and rewarded almost daily during the many months we hiked through the "green tunnel." OUR TIME ON THE TRAIL CHANGED US, EACH AND EVERY ONE.

Author : Dan White
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2009-10-13
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9780061739859

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The Cactus Eaters by Dan White Pdf

“In the well-written, laugh-out-loud, self-deprecating spirit of Bill Bryson’s A Walk In the Woods and Nora Ephron’s When Harry Met Sally, Dan White takes us along for a walk on the wild side of adventure and love. I couldn’t put it down.” —Eric Blehm, National Outdoor Book Award-winning author of The Last Season When Dan White and his girlfriend Melissa set out to hike the Pacific Crest Trail, which stretches from Mexico to Canada through boiling desert and snowcapped mountain passes, his parents wondered how two people who had never shared an apartment could survive in a tent in the desert. But when Dan and Melissa, dubbed “The Lois and Clark Expedition” by a fellow hiker, quit their doldrum jobs to set out into the wilderness, the hardships of the trail provided these addled adventurers with a crystalline view of the American wilderness, themselves, and each other. In his wickedly funny memoir, Dan White also shares the story of Warren Rogers, who risked ruin to chart the trail during the Great Depression. As he walks in Rogers’ footsteps, he starts to wonder if he’s assumed the man’s bravery—or his insanity. Both hilarious and harrowing, this account of a young couple's hike along the 2,650-mile Pacific Crest Trail is a testament to the power of nature to change us and the power of love to get us through the uphill climbs.

Author : Adrienne Hall
Publisher : Appalachian Mountain Club
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : PSU:000046421944

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A Journey North by Adrienne Hall Pdf

Hiking 2,159 miles from Georgia to Maine was not my idea...I was not a lost youth searching for an identity. I was not retired and looking for a new way to spend my time. I was not sorting through death or divorce. I was not recently fired from a job. The truth is, my boyfriend asked me on a date. So begins the story of one young woman's journey along the legendary Appalachian Trail. What starts as a date turns into the experience of a lifetime as Adrienne Hall faces blinding snowstorms, flooded rivers, and seemingly endless mountaintops. Yet despite the physical and mental hardships, she finds her commitment to her hiking companion and the AT experience growing with every mile. When she emerges from her trip - a million footsteps, countless candy bars, and one engagement proposal later - Adrienne has lived an adventure that few will ever know. Written with warmth, insight, and a keen sense of observation, A Journey North is a personal story about discovering what it means to hike the amazing corridor of wilderness that is the Appalachian Trail. (6 x 9 1/4, 224 pages, case bound)

Author : Kathryn Fulton
Publisher : Stackpole Books
Page : 169 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2013-09-01
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780811746120

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Hikers' Stories from the Appalachian Trail by Kathryn Fulton Pdf

Collection of highlights from twenty-one Appalachian Trail blogs.

Author : Jerry Gambell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 118 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2014-03-01
Category : Appalachian Trail
ISBN : 0989520900

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A Short Story about a Long Trail, the Appalachian Trail by Jerry Gambell Pdf

The author, a seasoned hiker and backpacker from the Adirondack Mountains, travels to Maine to spend a week trekking the northern most 60 miles of the Appalachian Trail. Along the way he meets day-packers, slack-packers, backpackers accidently hiking in the wrong direction, Banjo Man, trail names and "trail magic." As it turns out, these people are the trail. The trail is about the people one meets along the way - salt of the earth types, some lost souls and still others knee deep in hilarious serendipity. With a keen eye for detail and observation, the author paints an incredible picture of life on the trail in the north Maine woods. Backpacking never sounded like so much fun.

Author : Tanner Critz
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2010-11
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0984619917

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End to Ending by Tanner Critz Pdf

Critz chronicles his transformation as he walks the 2,000-mile Appalachian Trail. On his six-and-one-half-month journey through the woods, he takes on the trail name Wayah (Cherokee for wolf) and sheds his old life.

Author : Clifton Ware,Michael O. Hanson
Publisher : Birch Grove Publishing
Page : 379 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2013-01-02
Category : Aging
ISBN : 0982254407

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The Unseen Trail by Clifton Ware,Michael O. Hanson Pdf

Author : David Miller
Publisher : Wingspan Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781595940568

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Awol on the Appalachian Trail by David Miller Pdf

A 41-year-old engineer quits his job to hike the Appalachian Trail. This is a true account of his hike from Georgia to Maine, bringing to the reader the life of the towns and the people he meets along the way.

Author : Sherry Blackman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Discrimination against people with disabilities
ISBN : 0985822902

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Call to Witness by Sherry Blackman Pdf

"Call to Witness is the true story of one woman's battle with disability, discrimination, and a leading pharmaceutical powerhouse. Jane Gagliardo was a throwaway employee, fired after working nearly a decade for a leading vaccine maker when her disability surfaced. Jane is fearless and impassioned, and her story will leave readers empowered to stand up for themselves, even if it means standing alone. This 2002 landmark case changed the law and challenges the way corporations do business today. This riveting dramatic account sheds fascinating insight into the world of vaccine production, both past and present, that will have every reader searching through their immunization record--this corporation literally runs in the veins of millions of Americans."-- Page [4] of cover.