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The Trail is the Teacher is Clay Bonnyman Evans’ episodic account of his 2016 Appalachian Trail thru hike. September 2016 The trail was rocky but not egregiously steep for a mile down to the South Branch Carabassett River, which I was able to … [Continue reading]
The Trail is the Teacher is Clay Bonnyman Evans’ episodic account of his 2016 Appalachian Trail thru hike. September 2016 After paddling across the Kennebec, I lounged for a half hour on the southern bank, dabbling my hot feet in the cool water … [Continue reading]
The Trail is the Teacher is Clay Bonnyman Evans’ episodic account of his 2016 Appalachian Trail thru hike. September 2016 The trail was relatively flat out of Monson, with just a few hundred feet of climbing in the first six miles, followed by … [Continue reading]
The Trail is the Teacher is Clay Bonnyman Evans’ episodic account of his 2016 Appalachian Trail thru hike. August 2016 Much of the Hundred Mile Wilderness is flat (though not necessarily easy). But there are a few hills, including the … [Continue reading]
The Trail is the Teacher is Clay Bonnyman Evans’ episodic account of his 2016 Appalachian Trail thru hike. August 2016 In A Walk in the Woods, Bill Bryson makes Maine’s Hundred-Mile Wilderness sound like something from a Grimm’s fairy tale, and … [Continue reading]