notes

• Continuous footpath from Mount Katadin, Maine to Springer Mountain, Georgia.
• 2160 miles long
• Traced back to 1921
• Passes through 14 states
• Shelters to rest at which are less than a days hike apart
• Trail towns used to accommodating AT hikers
• Hikers who hike the entire trail in one season are called thru-hikers
• People wwho take separate trips: Section hikers
• Takes 5 to 7 months
• Very few people actually make the whole trail
• “yellow blazers” hitch hike
• Part of AT subculture: People make colorful entreis in log books at trail shelters along with their own special trail name.