Nimblewood was the first person, man or woman, to hike the trail twice. Despite wearing nothing but keds and carrying this denum duffle bag, she managed a average of 14 miles a day. townsfolk came out and said like, hay, you can sleep in our house, no charge.
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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