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Ultrarunner Smashes Appalachian Trail Record
After making the final sprint up Maine’s Mount Katahdin in 37 sleepless, rain-soaked hours, Joe McConaughy now boasts the record for fastest time to complete the Appalachian Trail. McConaughy averaged...
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He Was the First to Be Murdered on the Appalachian Trail
Only eight people have ever "died in acts of violence," as Earl Swift puts it, on the Appalachian Trail. In a lengthy piece for Outside Online , Swift tells the story of the first person to meet that...
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Appalachian Trail Hiker Dies After Fall From Rock
Authorities say an Appalachian Trail hiker in Maryland has died after falling from Annapolis Rock. Maryland Natural Resources Police say the 44-year-old man was taking photographs, jumping from rock to...
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Remains of Hiker Missing Since 2013 Found in Maine
Maine officials believe they've found the remains of a 66-year-old hiker who went missing while hiking the Appalachian Trail in July 2013, WCSH reports. According to WGME , the Maine Warden Service...
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'Biggest Badass You've Never Heard Of' Is This Hiker
When Heather Anderson beat the world record for a self-supported thru-hike of the 2,189-mile Appalachian Trail in a mere 54 days, 7 hours, and 48 minutes in September, she scrambled to the top of...
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Journal Reveals Lost Hiker Survived for Weeks
A lost hiker in Maine starved to death after waiting for rescue and then accepting her fate, heartbreaking journal entries have revealed. Geraldine Largay, a 66-year-old from Tennessee, disappeared...
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Inside the Futile Search for 'Inchworm' on the Trail
The discovery of a 66-year-old hiker's body off the Appalachian Trail last year made headlines in part for the poignancy of the journal and letters she left behind. “When you find my body,” wrote Jerry...
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Guy Sets Fast, Furious Appalachian Trail Record
Running through 14 states in 45 days, 22 hours, and 38 minutes may be a long and arduous journey, but as of this week it's also the fastest any person has ever completed a supported thru-hike of the...
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Hiker Trying to Start Campfire Blows Off His Hand
A hiker wasn't even one mile into what was supposed to be a 600-mile trek on the Appalachian Trail taking him from Pennsylvania to Tennessee when an accident cut his journey short—and cost him his...
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Ultrarunner Smashes Appalachian Trail Record
After making the final sprint up Maine’s Mount Katahdin in 37 sleepless, rain-soaked hours, Joe McConaughy now boasts the record for fastest time to complete the Appalachian Trail. McConaughy averaged...
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He Was the First to Be Murdered on the Appalachian Trail
Only eight people have ever "died in acts of violence," as Earl Swift puts it, on the Appalachian Trail. In a lengthy piece for Outside Online , Swift tells the story of the first person to meet that...
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Woman Walks 6 Miles for Help After Appalachian Trail Attack
A 30-year-old Massachusetts man is in custody after the first murder on the Appalachian Trail since 2011. Police say the suspect attacked a man and a woman with a machete on a section of trail in...
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To Survive Appalachian Trail Attack, She Played Dead
This is peak season for spring hikers venturing out on the Appalachian Trail, but a rare slaying has cast a pall over things. James Jordan, 30, of West Yarmouth, Mass., is accused of stabbing to death...
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No One Would Testify Against Appalachian Trail Suspect
Ronald Sanchez suffered from PTSD and major depression after years of military service, including three deployments in Iraq, but the 43-year-old Army veteran took to the outdoors to deal with the...
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Appalachian Trail Murder Suspect 'Unfit for Trial'
The man accused of killing a hiker with a machete in a terrifying attack on the Appalachian Trail in May is not mentally competent to stand trial, a federal judge in Virginia decided Wednesday. Federal...
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He Lived the Hiking Dream. The Real Story Was Sadder
Some people hope to hike the Appalachian Trail once in their lifetime. Adam Tarlin—better known by his trail name of "Baltimore Jack"—did it seven times. His hiking secret? Tarlin essentially lived on...
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Big Case for Famous Trail Hits the Supreme Court
Arguments in a big environmental case were being heard at the Supreme Court on Monday, a dispute that pits builders of an oil pipeline versus supporters of the Appalachian Trail. We won't get a...
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For Isolated Hiker, Coronavirus Panic 'Never Registered'
As COVID-19 found a foothold across the US, plenty of young adults "expressed indignation at failing to convince their parents to stop running to the grocery store for milk, or to abandon vacation...
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A Hiker Died in a Tent Full of Cash, and the Mystery Began
Over the summer, a Houston company that conducts DNA analysis and forensic geneaology to solve cold cases got a tip on its tip line: A Facebook group that had been working to track down the identity of...
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Dark Story of Hiker Who Died in Tent Full of Cash Emerges
It was a mystery that caught the internet's attention, so much so that a Facebook group engaged a company that conducts forensic genealogy to help solve the case. As Nicholas Thompson writes in a dark...
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