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The Joys of Maintaining the Appalachian National Scenic Trail
My husband, Lenny, and I have been maintaining a section of the Appalachian National Scenic Trail for more than 20 years, first in New York State and now on the border of North Carolina and Tennessee. For the last eight years, we’ve been the proud adoptive parents of 4.9 miles from Devils Fork Gap to [...]
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Hiker to speak on April 2 in Brattleboro
BRATTLEBORO — America has three great long-distance hiking trails and author John Illig has hiked all three — the Appalachian Trail, the Continental Divide Trail and the Pacific Crest Trail. Share on Facebook
Georgia Road Closed for Months
GA 348 (where Hogpen Gap is, just North of Neel Gap) is CLOSED do to wintertime damage. They estimate that it will be months before it is usable. For now, it is illegal to drive on much of it; people planning section hikes here, or those planning to meet or slack their friends should know [...]
Parking tight at Trail Days this year
By CAITLIN SULLIVAN/Staff Trail Days parking will be slim in Damascus this year. The 25,000 people who flood the town for the annual Appalachian Trail festival usually park and camp on eight acres of the town-owned Bayer Property off Shady Avenue. This year that spot will be fenced off and under construction for county ballfields. [...]
Water Gap Diner owner dies of injuries from Monday morning fire
By Beth Brelje Pocono Record Writer March 23, 2010 Water Gap Diner owner Regis Ioannidis feared floods but he didn’t expect the Monday morning fire that took his life. Ioannidis, 72, lived in an apartment above the diner and was likely asleep when the blaze started around 4 a.m. Share on Facebook
THE END OF THE
Tuesday, March 23, 2010 Mary Parry’s eyes got a little misty Wednesday night as members of the Duncannon Fire Department used high-powered, hydraulic speedway cutters and the Jaws of Life to dissect her 1984 Dodge Diplomat. Share on Facebook
Appalachian Trail Museum to open in June
GARDNERS, Pa. The nation’s most famous hiking trail will soon have a museum to house its artifacts and tell its story. The Appalachian Trail Museum will open June 5 in a 200-year-old grist mill at Pine Grove Furnace State Park, about two hours north of Baltimore and just two miles from the halfway point of [...]
How to hike the Appalachian Trail
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