Kellenberger, who spent 41 years teaching middle school in Carson City, Mich., said she’d dreamed of hiking the 14-state ...

DALLAS, Texas — Search teams are launching a major push before Christmas to find Dallas attorney Charles Hosch, who disappeared one month ago while hiking the Appalachian Trail in Georgia. Hosch made ...

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Each year, only about one out of every four hikers who set out to complete the Appalachian Trail reaches that goal. A thru-hike means traversing nearly 2,200 miles, across 14 states, in a single ...

Each year, only about one out of every four hikers who set out to complete the Appalachian Trail reaches that goal. A thru-hike means traversing nearly 2,200 miles, across 14 states, in a single ...

“It had happened again. I had met another American whose generosity, it began to seem to me, gushed out of the spirit of this land.” – Peter Jenkins, “A Walk Across America” I’ve always loved hiking.

Masafumi Saito is a Japanese hiker with experience all over American trails. The reaction he's gotten in Wisconsin, however, stands out. Many in Wisconsin's hiking community have hosted him or shared ...

Pennsylvania First Lady Lori Shapiro recently hiked a 10-mile section of the Appalachian Trail in Franklin County as part of her goal to walk all 229 miles of the trail in the state, according to a ...

The day Betty Kellenberger hit a patch of freezing rain on Mount Madison, quitting crossed her mind. She was hungry, cold and sore. “You’re 80 years old,” she told herself in a pep talk atop a ...

In American slang, “take a hike” is often used to tell someone to go away. But as the Appalachian Trail Conservancy celebrates its 100th anniversary, the organization is working to reframe the phrase ...

Diana Crandall is a deputy editor of automation at Forbes Marketplace. With a master's degree in journalism from the University of Southern California and a background in marketing, she combines ...