Exit Interview: I Was a Black, Female Thru-Hiker on the Appalachian Trail - Atlas Obscura
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The first person to hike the full length of the Appalachian Trail, a white man named Earl V. Shaffer, wanted to “walk the Army out of his system.” That was
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