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appalachian trail

Silhouette of man holding hiking poles against a nature landscape of mountaintop with pasture areas
Posted inEssays & Criticism, Feature, Nonfiction, Story

Searching for the Mountaintop in Upstate New York

by Benje Williams March 14, 2022October 18, 2022

A family confronts its racial past along the Appalachian Trail.

Posted inFeatured, Highlight, Nonfiction, Quote Posts, Quotes

The Mysterious Case of a Nameless Hiker

by Cheri Lucas Rowlands November 6, 2020October 19, 2022

A friendly and charming hiker was known on the trail as “Mostly Harmless.” After his body was discovered in a tent in Florida, no one could figure out who he was.

Posted inEditor's Pick

My Backcountry Prescription Experiment

by Sari Botton December 2, 2019October 19, 2022

Mathina Calliope goes off her antidepressant and into the woods.

Posted inEssays & Criticism, Feature, Featured, Nonfiction, Story

The Backcountry Prescription Experiment

by Mathina Calliope December 2, 2019December 30, 2022

Mathina Calliope goes off her antidepressant and into the woods.

Posted inFeatured, Nonfiction, Quotes

Queer and Black and Hiking the Appalachian Trail: Rahawa Haile on Going it Alone

by Krista Stevens April 14, 2017October 19, 2022

In hiking the Appalachian Trail solo as a queer black woman, Rahawa Haile wants “to be a role model to black women who are interested in the outdoors, including myself.”

Posted inFeatured, Nonfiction, Quotes

Carrying the Weight of Black Experience — and Literature — Along the Appalachian Trail

by Sari Botton February 3, 2017October 19, 2022

Rahawa Haile writes about hiking over 2000 miles on the Appalachian Trail in 2016, and carrying with her books by black authors, which she’d leave behind for others to find at shelters along the way.

Posted inEditor's Pick

How Black Books Lit My Way Along The Appalachian Trail

by Sari Botton February 2, 2017October 19, 2022

Eritrean-American essayist and short story writer Rahawa Haile writes about hiking the Appalachian Trail and traveling through trail towns as a black woman alone. She brings along books by black authors and leaves them behind for others to find at shelters along the way. In keeping with her 2015 Short Story of the Day effort […]

Posted inBooks, First Chapters, Member Pick, Nonfiction, Story

Grandma Gatewood’s Walk: The Woman Who Saved the Appalachian Trail

by Longreads May 6, 2014October 19, 2022

“There were a million heavenly things to see and a million spectacular ways to die.”

Posted inBooks, First Chapters, Member Pick, Nonfiction

Grandma Gatewood’s Walk: The Woman Who Saved the Appalachian Trail

by Longreads May 6, 2014October 19, 2022

“There were a million heavenly things to see and a million spectacular ways to die.”

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