Atlas Obscura
Exit Interview: I Was a Black, Female Thru-Hiker on the Appalachian Trail
Atlas Obscura
The first person to hike the full length of the Appalachian Trail, a white man named Earl V. Shaffer, wanted to “walk the Army out of his system.” That was in 1948. Since the 1970s, when 775 hikers completed the trail, the number of “thru-hikers” has ...



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