A Walk in the Woods
Another pause. "Might be." "And how much would it be to take us twenty miles?" "Dunno." I looked at the receiver. "Excuse me, bu ...
enlightenment with which the southern states often strive to distinguish themselves, was in the process of passing a law forbidd ...
In the summer of 1948, Earl V. Shaffer, a young man just out of the army, became the first person to hike the Appalachian Trail ...
Shenandoah National Park, from Vermont across to Maine, as forlorn relic strands in the odd state park, but otherwise buried und ...
A significant fraction of thru-hikers reach Katahdin, then turn around and start back to Georgia. They just can't stop walking, ...
There is a painting by Asher Brown Durand called "Kindred Spirits," which is often reproduced in books when the subject turns to ...
in botany after reading a book on the subject and began sending seeds and cuttings to a fellow Quaker in London. Encouraged to s ...
But evidently it was worth it. A single, particularly valued seed could fetch up to five guineas. On one trip, John Lyon cleared ...
manipulated as a kind of joke, like those old postcards that show watermelons as big as barns or an ear of corn that entirely fi ...
became a memory. The Appalachians alone lost four billion trees, a quarter of its cover, in a generation. A great tragedy, of co ...
our lights. I felt springy and fit and for the first time in years had a stomach that didn't look like a ball bag. I was still w ...
"No," I said at length. "Nothing." Katz considered the implications of this, looked for a moment as if he might say something, t ...
He gave his head a little dubious shake, as if disowning responsibility for what he was about to tell me. "Well, then what you w ...
boots, but really he was just sitting watching the world go by and dreamily enjoying the sunshine. He greeted me warmly. Katz wa ...
of pink female underwear that could fairly be called capacious. "I thought I'd give them to her. As a kind of joke, you understa ...
"Stephen, I didn't study how to save your ass in Waynesboro. I majored in political science. If your problem was to do with prop ...
amble. Shenandoah National Park--101 miles from top to bottom--is famously beautiful, and I was eager to see it at last. We had, ...
found the funds to post a warden at each AT access point to turn back all thru-hikers. In consequence, a couple of dozen harmles ...
Surprisingly, considering its modest dimensions and how little room there is for real backcountry, the park is remarkably rich i ...
This was true. Once a skunk had come plodding through our camp and it had sounded like a stegosaurus. There was another heavy ru ...
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