The Formative Path

Perhaps one of the hardest things about a hike on the AT is that you are surrounded by silence. There’s no sound except the wind in the trees, footfalls on the soft path, and the heavy breathing that represents unending effort. However, there is one additional sound that isn’t found in the woods, it’s located…

A few years ago, I walked the Appalachian Trail. Well, not all of it. In truth, I only traversed about 3 miles of the 2,000-mile path that runs from Mount Katahdin in Maine to Springer Mountain in Georgia. It turns out, hiking the AT (as we hikers like to call it) is REALLY hard. What…