By Alan Lovett
With a steady pace, after 65 days of hill and dale, Alan reached the halfway point in Pennsylvania where the Shenandoah section skirts along the ridge. There he found the Appalachian Trail Center with cheering friends and home cooked food.
Escaping to hike the Appalachian Trail, is a 2190 mile trek through 14 states extending from Georgia to Maine.
The Appalachian trail is an astounding contrast of terrains and vegetation from the southernmost states to the northern apex. Elevations vary from mountain peak to valley. One such extremity is in the Nanahala section of North Carolina, named by the Cherokee, “the land of the noonday sun,” the hillsides are so steep you can only see the sun at mid-day.
Encountering, “through hikers,” …show more content…
Ankle bending rocky crags and boulder barriers twist and turn along treeless trails.
Treasures presented themselves along the trail; foremost being fellow sojourners. Four travelers became fast friends with Alan from Virginia to completion. Alan describes them as the most eclectic, craziest, friendliest, and genuinely good group of people who shared mud and fords, rocks and roots, pain and homesickness ever encouraging to the end. Traded tears anointed their embraces as victors celebrated the end of a life changing challenge. The author reflects, “When I began my journey, I thought about what the end would be like. As I got closer to Mt Katahdin, Maine, it was all I could dream about, think about, imagine about.” The end sight was just an old weathered wooden sign, but the journey a gamut of emotions, of completion, of success. I’m finished making the memories from the best time of my life.”
“I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life...”--Henry David Thoreau
Sitting in an office every day, he has but to venture into the wall hanging icons to relive the memories of a million
With a steady pace, after 65 days of hill and dale, Alan reached the halfway point in Pennsylvania where the Shenandoah section skirts along the ridge. There he found the Appalachian Trail Center with cheering friends and home cooked food.
Escaping to hike the Appalachian Trail, is a 2190 mile trek through 14 states extending from Georgia to Maine.
The Appalachian trail is an astounding contrast of terrains and vegetation from the southernmost states to the northern apex. Elevations vary from mountain peak to valley. One such extremity is in the Nanahala section of North Carolina, named by the Cherokee, “the land of the noonday sun,” the hillsides are so steep you can only see the sun at mid-day.
Encountering, “through hikers,” …show more content…
Ankle bending rocky crags and boulder barriers twist and turn along treeless trails.
Treasures presented themselves along the trail; foremost being fellow sojourners. Four travelers became fast friends with Alan from Virginia to completion. Alan describes them as the most eclectic, craziest, friendliest, and genuinely good group of people who shared mud and fords, rocks and roots, pain and homesickness ever encouraging to the end. Traded tears anointed their embraces as victors celebrated the end of a life changing challenge. The author reflects, “When I began my journey, I thought about what the end would be like. As I got closer to Mt Katahdin, Maine, it was all I could dream about, think about, imagine about.” The end sight was just an old weathered wooden sign, but the journey a gamut of emotions, of completion, of success. I’m finished making the memories from the best time of my life.”
“I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life...”--Henry David Thoreau
Sitting in an office every day, he has but to venture into the wall hanging icons to relive the memories of a million