Application Trail Conservancy Walking w/Spring - Outdoors/Traveling

In 1948, the appalachian trail had been a continuous, 2,000-mile footpath for 11 years, but no one had walked its length alone in a continuous journey--until earl shaffer, a quiet pennsylvanian, became a hiking legend and the first of what is now more than 5,500 a.T. Thru-hikers," walking from georgia to maine as spring arrived to each area. In 1998, he hiked again as a 50th-anniversary celebration, to far greater publicity. This is the lyrical account of his fabled 1948 walk, with his own photographs.