Each year, only about one out of every four hikers who set out to complete the Appalachian Trail reaches that goal. A ...

PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — An 83-year-old hiker who is known as “Nimblewill Nomad” has become the oldest person to complete the Appalachian Trail. M.J. Eberhart of Flagg Mountain, Alabama, hiked into the ...

GARDNERS, Pa. — Sam Cooper had just trekked 7 miles through a rain-sodden stretch of the Appalachian Trail when he sat down outside a little country store in Pennsylvania to take on its ice cream ...

Two York High faculty members, five students and at least one alumnus gathered around Earl Shaffer’s bed in April 2002. They had traveled to the Lebanon Veterans Administration Hospital to induct this ...

Stretching 2,197 miles from Georgia to Maine, the Appalachian National Scenic Trail is the most widely known hiking trail in the country. Most Long Islanders with a penchant for the outdoors have ...

RAVENSWOOD – Retirement. It’s supposed to be a time where one kicks back and tells others “you handle it. I’m retired.” Well, Chuck Crookshanks has retired. He has allowed others at Parkersburg South ...

A trail along the ridges of theAppalachian Mountainswas proposed in 1921 by Benton McKaye as a refuge from life in an industrial society. Trail builders in the northern states began work a few years ...

A Dallas lawyer is still missing Sunday night; he was last seen on Tuesday hiking near the Appalachian Trail in the North ...

"No One Walks The Trail Alone." Lama Ent. has revealed the official trailer for an indie drama called The Keeper, opening in theaters this Memorial Day weekend in May. Based on a true story. Heavily ...