The Clarion
Brevard College
April 1, 2004
Community News:
The Appalachian Trail
By Jon Obst, staff writer
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The Appalachian Trail is a vast bastion of early ^he logging industry and human
adventure and experience the beauty and dangers o ^ j^ature, fuU of trees taUer than those
The Appalachian Trail is the brainchild of Benton an'oSTof wilderness to find
rugged beauty so that people throughout future generations could
this ^
sanctuary and inspiration
A K1 VPS on trees that stretches from Springer
The trail is a continuous footpath, marked on the trail is 4,400 feet, and it never
Mountain, Georgia to Mt. Kathadin in Maine. e g es throughout all the states it
falls below 2,500 feet. There is also a very large amount o Appalachian Trial is also known as the
encompasses, which includes rabbits, bears, wolves, ox, a
A.T.
u oritv of htk-crs ^o out for short
Several million people hike on the A.T. every . hiking it by sections year after year. A small
excursions. Some hikers reach their goal of hiking the e
number of people hike the entire trail at once.
Those who hike the trail should approach Leave no trace means
leave no trace is very important while on the PP^ ^ irtnres and memories. This is a really goo way to
For those of you th« have not been on the.
or few days it is more than worth your time, t is a o
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