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Long Distance Hiking on
the Appalachian Trail for the Older Adventurer
by David Ryan
Price - $10.00 (includes shipping)
Paperback – 88 pages, 5 x 8.5 inches
Publisher – New Mountain Books (April 2002)
ISBN – 0938631209
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With our fast paced lives and overwhelming responsibilities, most of us are too busy anticipating the future
or replaying the past to be completely in the present. One activity that will allow you to change that is long
distance hiking. A long distance hike allows
you to reduce the speed of your life to the pace of a step, to live simply and to be totally immersed in nature. Or,
as described in Long Distance Hiking on the Appalachian Trail for the Older Adventurer: One of the things you can do to prevent
the hike from becoming a never-ending walk on a treadmill through a green tunnel is to take advantage of your reduced pace
to observe. If you do, you will notice changes in the light, the pick-up of a breeze and the skittering of a creature. You
will notice how each day is different – a slight change in the temperature or the exposure of a mountainside will completely
alter the character of the trail. One stretch will be covered with small flowers and butterflies while a few hundred feet
further up on the other side of the mountain there will be thousands of grasshoppers stirring up downed leaves as if they
were making popcorn. You notice these because you have slowed your pace to allow yourself to experience the present. Even
when these opportunities last only a second you will remember them long after you leave the trail, and all the struggles you
go through will become worthwhile. If you want to learn more, you can order a copy of the Appalachian Trail Conservancy best seller
– Long Distance Hiking on the Appalachian Trail for the Older Adventurer by selecting the
button below.
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