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The longest mile : nine days in the Great Smoky Mountains

Title

The longest mile : nine days in the Great Smoky Mountains / Ryan Watkins.

Author

Watkins, Ryan, 1983-

Publication

Roswell, GA : Ryan Watkins, [2016]
©2016

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Description

145 pages; 22 cm.

Summary

"For nine days one early May, Ryan Watkins along with two brothers, Jeremy and Chris Jones, attempt to backpack the entire length of the infamous Appalachian Trail through the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. From his very first steps into the Smokies, Ryan quickly learns the seventy-mile stretch of trail is far more difficult than he ever imagined. The trio battles through torrential rains, lightning, snow, fatigue, multiple encounters with bears and a standoff with a timber rattlesnake as they march more than eighty miles from Standing Bear Farms, a small hostel north of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, to Fontana Dam on the park's southern tip. Along the way, the group meets a colorful cast of hikers while experiencing the most physically demanding and personally rewarding nine days of their lives."-- p. [4] of cover.

Subject

Contents

Standing Bear Farms -- The last mile is the longest -- Surviving bear attack -- Swiss cheese -- Enter the icebox -- Minister gem -- Riding the ridge -- Nameless and fearless -- Pissing on Rocky Top -- There and back again.

ISBN

9781533374059
1533374058

OCLC

ocn958899729
SCSB-14157592

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library