Bo McLain, 26, and Dalton Leeman, 25, had little hiking experience when they started their trek north in April. But the successfully hiked all 2,200-miles of the Appalachian Trail, arriving atop Katahdin on Oct. 2. Read More
A hiker from Illinois was rescued from a difficult stretch of the Appalachian Trail on Tuesday afternoon after she broke her leg. Read More
Difficulty: Very strenuous. The trail is 5.2 miles, one-way, and has an elevation gain 4,188 feet. The trail is extremely steep while traveling along Hunt Spur, a narrow, rocky ridge on the west side of the mountain. Many sections on the spur require hand-over-foot climbing. A… Read More
The Maine Forest Service deployed a helicopter Saturday to airlift an injured Appalachian Trail hiker in Piscataquis County. Read More
Rico the cat walks the Appalachian Trail rarely on leash, is able to keep up with Michael Beaumier for about five miles a day and even does his own hunting when they set up camp for the night. Read More
The Maine Wardens Service says an Appalachian Trail hiker was rescued by wardens who used a float plane to reach him in a remote area along the trail. Read More
The Appalachian Trail Conservancy redesigned its safety and crime prevention page after the fatal stabbing of an Army veteran on the trail last month. Read More
Maine author Denis Dauphinee is now giving voice to the last days of Geraldine Largay’s life. The book, Dauphinee hopes, will help make sense of what happened while giving readers a chance to draw their own conclusions. Read More
The physical injuries kept Ronnie Sanchez Jr. from moving as fast as he wanted on the Appalachian Trail, but it was the unseen wounds that almost made him quit. Read More
A Massachusetts man faces federal charges in the brutal attack Saturday on two Appalachian Trail hikers that left a man dead and a woman hospitalized with severe stab wounds, Virginia authorities said. Read More
Three of the founders of the International Appalachian Trail met up at Andy’s Old Port Pub in Portland on Monday for an informal ceremony marking the 25th anniversary of the trail’s formation. Read More
This request is being made so AT hikers don’t disturb a longstanding annual ceremony conducted by the Penobscot Indian Nation on the mountain from Sept. 1- 3. Read More
Paul Truesdale hiked the trail only through day trips, without ever camping or sleeping overnight on the path. Read More
A hiker who was rescued out from the Appalachian Trail two weeks ago after falling ill was carried out again Tuesday after another bout of sickness. Read More
Game wardens and local paramedics rescued two heat-exhausted hikers this week as they traversed portions of the Appalachian Trail in Maine. Read More
There was a moment back in August when Dale “Grey Beard” Sanders considered giving up in the middle of the 100-Mile Wilderness in Maine. Read More
McConaughy beat the speed record for the Appalachian Trail by 10:41, ascending to the top of Katahdin in 45 days 12 hours 15 minutes. Read More
After Largay’s body was discovered, I read and heard a lot of misinformation about what searchers should be able to do. I'd now like to make it clear what happened when we went looking for Largay, and how searchers do their jobs. Read More
