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It was becoming clear that an overwhelming number of thru-hikers were recent college grads. a door leading to adventures in history, literature, philosophy, archaeology, theater, poetry-the breadth of human experience as lived by Homer, Socrates, Plato, and Paul as well as by Cicero, Julius Caesar, Augustus and Augustine" - the trail with its white blazes beckoned a bit as a way to both put off entering the working world and to spend more than a little time figuring out just who she was and where she wanted to go in life. Davis, who was 21 and fresh out of Samford University where she studied the "Classics" - "the universe of the Ancient Greeks and Romans. More than a few who set out in Maine hoping to make it to Georgia before wintry weather strikes, or begin in the chill of late-winter in Georgia intending to stand atop Mount Katahdin five or six months later, look at the "AT" as a trek that allows them to temporarily escape the realities of the world that reside just off the trail.įor Ms.

Oil Trains Pose A Significant Threat To National Parksįrom Maine to Georgia, the Appalachian National Scenic Trail rambles for 2,175 miles, a journey alluring to some for the back-to-nature demands it places on those who set out to hike end-to-end.īut this simple footpath, with its day-after-day-after-day of walking through the woods, up and down mountains, and sleeping out in the open, also gives you more than a little time to peer into your own soul, as well as those of others, as Jennifer Pharr Davis discovered during a solo thru-hike.

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