The first woman to walk the a t by herself, all the way back in 19 50 when she was 67. The mother of 11 kids, 23 grand kids. Had a 30 year marriage to an awful, abusive, physically abusive husband who apparently would beat her nearly to death at times. Thisa garbage human raised those 11 children by herself. And then in the 19 fifties, read a natgio article about the t and about shafers through hike. And said, and in 19 53, told her grandchildren, ums, her grown children, that she was going for a hike,. She basically turned into valma from scooby de and she was rescued by rangers
A few short years after the hiking trails from Maine to Georgia were connected into the world’s longest hiking-only footpath, a WWII vet walked the whole thing in one go. He kicked off a challenge that’s still taken on by thousands of people each year.
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