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Walking Home: A Woman's Pilgrimage on the Appalachian Trail

by Kelly Winters · 2001

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A travelogue of the author's time hiking the vast majority of the Appalachian Trail from Springer Mountain, Georgia to Mahoosuc Notch in Maine. She recounts the travails of attempting to thru-hike the entire trail and recalls the many characters she met who were also thru- hiking the 2,000 mile trai

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medium · 344 pages

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