10 famous Appalachian Trail hikers
I recently saw this posting at the Mother Nature Network site. Among the 10 most famous AT hikers:
1. Earl Shaffer – First person to thru-hike the A.T. (no debate)
2. Mike Hanson – First blind person to hike the A.T. (what about Bill Erwin?, guess he wasn’t totally blind)
3. Grandma Gatewood – first person to hike the trail three times, and she was the oldest woman to thru-hike the trail at the time (no debate)
4. Bill Bryson – author of a Walk In The Woods (well, he did make the A.T. more famous, but ….)
5. Scott Rogers – the first above-the-knee amputee to hike the entire Appalachian Trail
6. Kevin Gallagher – strung 4000 still photos together to create a stop-motion film of the A.T.
7. Jacques d’Amboise – shared his “Trail Dance,â€
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