Searching for the Mountaintop in Upstate New York By Benje Williams Feature A family confronts its racial past along the Appalachian Trail.
The Mysterious Case of a Nameless Hiker By Cheri Lucas Rowlands Highlight 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.
The Backcountry Prescription Experiment By Mathina Calliope Feature Mathina Calliope goes off her antidepressant and into the woods.
Queer and Black and Hiking the Appalachian Trail: Rahawa Haile on Going it Alone By Krista Stevens Highlight 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.”
Carrying the Weight of Black Experience — and Literature — Along the Appalachian Trail By Sari Botton Highlight 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.
Grandma Gatewood’s Walk: The Woman Who Saved the Appalachian Trail By Longreads Feature “There were a million heavenly things to see and a million spectacular ways to die.”
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