#appalachian

[everoutoftouch]

[everoutoftouch]

[everoutoftouch]

[everoutoftouch]

[raccoon-creek-kwik-stop]

"But you don’t have to live in the past.

You can’t, even if you try.

You don’t have to talk old-fashioned, dress old-fashioned.

You don’t have to live the way your foreparents lived.

But if you don’t know about them

if you don’t love them

if you don’t respect them

you’re not going anywhere.

you don’t have to think ridge-to-ridge,

the way they did.

You can think ocean-to-ocean."

- Excerpt of Jim Wayne Miller's 'Brier Sermon' (1980)

[chronically-basorexic]

[unbfacts]

Gatewood finished her first successful hike in 146 days, reportedly wearing out several pairs of tennis shoes along the way. In 1957 she walked the entire trail again, and in 1964 completed it a third time in sections.