"Appalachian Trail The Appalachian National Scenic Trail, generally known as the Appalachian Trail or simply the A.T., is a marked hiking trail in the Eastern United States extending between Springer Mountain in Georgia and Mount Katahdin in Maine. The trail is about long, though the exact length changes over time as parts are modified or rerouted. The Appalachian Trail Conservancy describes the Appalachian Trail as the longest hiking-only trail in the world. More than 2 million people are said to take a hike on part of the trail at least once each year. The idea of the Appalachian Trail came"
"A Walk in the Woods (film) A Walk in the Woods is a 2015 American biographical comedy-drama film directed by Ken Kwapis, based on the 1998 book/memoir of the same name by Bill Bryson. The film stars Robert Redford, Nick Nolte and Emma Thompson, and was released on September 2, 2015, by Broad Green Pictures. Author Bill Bryson (Robert Redford), after living for ten years in the UK, returned to New Hampshire. Now in his 60s, he had been living there peacefully for the past twenty years. A television interview reports that he has published several popular books and there"
"in Roanoke, Virginia. The book recounts Bryson's desire to seek easier terrain as well as ""a powerful urge not to be this far south any longer"". This section of the hike finally ends (after nearly 800 miles (1,300 km) of hiking) with Bryson going on a book tour and Katz returning to Des Moines, Iowa, to work. In the following months Bryson continues to hike several smaller parts of the trail, including a visit to Centralia, Pennsylvania, the site of a coal seam fire, and eventually reunites with Katz to hike the Hundred-Mile Wilderness in Maine, which again proves too"
"on 30 critics, indicating ""mixed or average reviews"". On CinemaScore, audiences gave the film an average grade of ""B"" on an A+ to F scale. A Walk in the Woods (film) A Walk in the Woods is a 2015 American biographical comedy-drama film directed by Ken Kwapis, based on the 1998 book/memoir of the same name by Bill Bryson. The film stars Robert Redford, Nick Nolte and Emma Thompson, and was released on September 2, 2015, by Broad Green Pictures. Author Bill Bryson (Robert Redford), after living for ten years in the UK, returned to New Hampshire. Now in his"
"603) on the north, and Pine Mountain on the southeast. The Appalachian Trail passes in an out of the wilderness for a total 5.5 miles in the wilderness. Trailheads are near Elk Garden on the south and Grayson Highlands State Park on the north. Other Trails in the area include: Habitats created by high elevations, extended slopes and streams support a large biological diversity. The wilderness and surrounding country are considered one of the most important centers for biological diversity in the eastern United States. Besides the oak-hickory forest common in eastern deciduous woodlands, a variety of forest communities include"
"The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid is a 2006 memoir by best-selling travel writer Bill Bryson. The book delves into Bryson's past, telling of his youth growing up in Des Moines, Iowa, during the 1950s and early 1960s. It also reveals the backstory between himself and Stephen Katz, who appeared in ""A Walk in the Woods"" and ""."" Bryson also describes and comments on American life in the 1950s. The title of the book comes from an imaginary alter-ego Bryson invented for himself in his childhood, who has the ability"
"trail in the United States. The influence of British and European Romanticism reached North America through the transcendentalist movement, and both Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–82) and Henry David Thoreau (1817-62) were important influences on the outdoors movement in North America. Thoreau's writing on nature and on walking include the posthumously published ""Walking"" (1862)"". His earlier essay ""A Walk to Wachusett"" (1842) describes a four-day walking tour Thoreau took with a companion from Concord, Massachusetts to the summit of Mount Wachusett, Princeton, Massachusetts and back. In 1876 the Appalachian Mountain Club, America’s earliest recreation organization, was founded to protect the trails"
"The Lost Continent: Travels in Small-Town America The Lost Continent: Travels in Small-Town America is a book by travel writer Bill Bryson, chronicling his 13,978 mile trip around the United States in the autumn of 1987 and spring 1988. It was Bryson's first travel book. He begins his journey, made almost entirely by car, in his childhood hometown of Des Moines, Iowa, heading from there towards the Mississippi River, often reminiscing about his childhood in Iowa. The journey was made after his father's death, and so is in part a collection of memories of his father in Des Moines while"
"he was growing up. The book is split into two sections: 'East' and 'West', the former part being considerably longer than the latter. These sections correspond to two separate journeys made in the autumn of 1987 and spring of 1988. The first section covers the Midwest, the Deep South, the East Coast and New England, before returning to Des Moines. The second section focuses on the Great Plains, the South West, California and the Rocky Mountains. Bryson's goal in this trip was generally to avoid tourist destinations, instead choosing to experience the real every-day America, stopping at small towns and"
"offered, as well. The trail has also been part of the 100 Mile Quest, a challenge to hike 100 miles in one year. Rachel Carson Trail The Rachel Carson Trail is a hiking trail in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania in the United States. The trail stretches along a meandering path from Harrison Hills Park to North Park, crossing through a variety of dense woodlands, open meadows, streams, steep bluffs, power line clearings, as well as skirting the boundaries of local farms and suburban areas. There are no camps or shelters along the way, meaning the trail is intended for day-hiking. The"
"Bryson is known for ""A Walk in the Woods"", made into a Hollywood film of the same name. The writings of escaped slaves of their experience under slavery and their escape from it is a type of travel literature that developed during the 18th and 19th centuries, detailing how slaves escaped the restrictive laws of the southern United States and the Caribbean to find freedom. As John Cox says in ""Traveling South"", ""travel was a necessary prelude to the publication of a narrative by a slave, for slavery could not be simultaneously experienced and written."" A particularly famous slave travel"
"much detailed research about the history, flora and fauna of the places visited. Neither Here nor There: Travels in Europe Neither Here nor There: Travels in Europe is a 1991 humorous travelogue by American writer Bill Bryson. It documents the author's tour of Europe in 1990, with many flashbacks to two summer tours he made in 1972 and 1973 in his college days. Parts featuring his 1973 tour focus to a large extent on the pseudonymous ""Stephen Katz"", who accompanied Bryson, and who would play a more prominent role in Bryson's later book ""A Walk in the Woods"", as well"
"has a 73/100 rating at the website Metacritic, earning it the rank of ""Generally favorable reviews"". The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid is a 2006 memoir by best-selling travel writer Bill Bryson. The book delves into Bryson's past, telling of his youth growing up in Des Moines, Iowa, during the 1950s and early 1960s. It also reveals the backstory between himself and Stephen Katz, who appeared in ""A Walk in the Woods"" and ""."" Bryson also describes and comments on American life in the 1950s. The title of the book"
"the history, geography, unusual plants and animals of the country, and his wry impressions of the life, culture and amenities (or lack thereof) in each locality. In a style similar to his book ""A Walk in the Woods"", or William Least Heat-Moon's ""Blue Highways"", Bryson's research enabled him to include many stories about Australia's 19th-century explorers and settlers who suffered extreme deprivations, as well as details about its natural resources, culture, and economy. His writings are intertwined with recurring humorous themes. The book consists of three parts. 1. Into the Outback The first part of the book mainly describes the"
"continue south into Florida, creating what is known as the Eastern Continental Trail. The Appalachian Trail, the Continental Divide Trail, and the Pacific Crest Trail form what is known as the Triple Crown of Hiking in the United States. The trail was conceived by Benton MacKaye, a forester who wrote his original plan—called ""An Appalachian Trail, A Project in Regional Planning""—shortly after the death of his wife in 1921. MacKaye's idea detailed a grand trail that would connect a series of farms and wilderness work/study camps for city-dwellers. In 1922, at the suggestion of Major William A. Welch, director of"
"hike followed by a bushwhack across the heavily overgrown Hyatt Ridge Trail. The Balsam Mountain Trail, which crosses the gap between Mount Hardison and Mount Yonaguska, provides the closest maintained trail access. The old Hyatt Ridge Trail intersects the Balsam Mountain Trail at a sharp, horseshoe bend approximately east of the latter's junction with the Appalachian Trail at Tricorner Knob. One branch (very faint) of the old Hyatt Ridge Trail crosses the summits of Mount Hardison and Marks Knob, and another swings around the western slope of Mount Hardison to the gap (or ""saddle"") between Mount Hardison and Marks Knob"
"Neither Here nor There: Travels in Europe Neither Here nor There: Travels in Europe is a 1991 humorous travelogue by American writer Bill Bryson. It documents the author's tour of Europe in 1990, with many flashbacks to two summer tours he made in 1972 and 1973 in his college days. Parts featuring his 1973 tour focus to a large extent on the pseudonymous ""Stephen Katz"", who accompanied Bryson, and who would play a more prominent role in Bryson's later book ""A Walk in the Woods"", as well as appearing in ""The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid"". Bryson's trip"
"the first to complete a southbound thru-hike from New York state to Flagg Mountain, Alabama. Several other names were suggested and used earlier during the development of the trail, including the Western Appalachian Alternative. The northern terminus was once considered to overlay with North Country National Scenic Trail at Crown Point, New York, but was truncated to the NCNST junction in southwestern New York state. Route from south to north with gaps, according to the Great Eastern Trail Concept Plan: Great Eastern Trail The Great Eastern Trail is a north-south hiking route that runs roughly through the Appalachian Mountains west"
"American Hiking Society and the Rivers, Trails, and Conservation Assistance Program of the US National Park Service but then became an independent entity. The Great Eastern Trail Association was incorporated in Virginia on August 10, 2007, by signatories from the nine states through which the trail passes. On January 10, 2013, ""Hillbilly"" Bart Houck of Mullens, West Virginia, and Joanna ""Someday"" Swanson of Willow River, Minnesota, started hiking in Alabama and arrived in New York on June 18, 2013, becoming the first to complete a thru-hike of the Great Eastern Trail. In October 2016, Kathy Finch of New Hampshire became"
"Rachel Carson Trail The Rachel Carson Trail is a hiking trail in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania in the United States. The trail stretches along a meandering path from Harrison Hills Park to North Park, crossing through a variety of dense woodlands, open meadows, streams, steep bluffs, power line clearings, as well as skirting the boundaries of local farms and suburban areas. There are no camps or shelters along the way, meaning the trail is intended for day-hiking. The trail contains hazardous terrain and is steep, rising 8,151 feet and dropping 8,214 feet. Few bridges have been built, causing hikers to cross"
"off Route 302. The trail primarily follows the Crawford Path — the oldest continually used hiking trail in the United States, having been established in 1819 by Abel and Ethan Crawford, who referred to the mountain as Bald Mountain. The Appalachian Trail and Webster Cliff Trail approach from Mount Jackson in the south and meet Crawford Path just north of the summit before continuing to the northeast. Mount Eisenhower and Mount Monroe lie on the ridge northeast of Mt. Pierce. All three of these peaks are included on the peak-bagging list of four-thousand footers in New Hampshire. Mount Pierce (New"
"The trail passes through eight United States Wilderness Areas and Wilderness Study Areas, while traversing three states (Georgia, Tennessee and North Carolina). The lowest elevation (765 ft) on the BMT occurs at the crossing of the Hiwassee River in Tennessee. The highest elevation is the summit of Mt. Sterling in the Great Smoky Mountains of North Carolina. The trail crosses various trout rivers along its path including Shallowford Bridge and The Swinging Bridge over the Toccoa River in GA, the Ocoee, Hiwassee, Upper Bald and Tellico Rivers in TN and the Little Tennessee River in NC. It also crosses Eagle,"
"Bill Hall who was a seasonal park ranger on the North Rim who was killed in the line of duty (automobile accident) in 1979. Bill Hall Trail The Bill Hall Trail is a hiking trail in Grand Canyon National Park, located in the U.S. state of Arizona. The trail begins at ""Monument Point"" along the north rim of the canyon on the boundary of the National Park, about west of the park services at North Rim, Arizona. Access to the trailhead is over of forest roads made of graded dirt, and a four-wheel drive vehicle is recommended for travel in"
"about in 1921. The trail itself was completed in 1937 after more than a decade of work, although improvements and changes continue. It is maintained by 31 trail clubs and multiple partnerships, and managed by the National Park Service, United States Forest Service, and the nonprofit Appalachian Trail Conservancy. Most of the trail is in forest or wild lands, although some portions traverse towns, roads and farms. It passes through 14 states: Georgia, North Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Vermont, New Hampshire, and Maine. Thru-hikers attempt to hike the trail in its"
"Great Eastern Trail The Great Eastern Trail is a north-south hiking route that runs roughly through the Appalachian Mountains west of the Appalachian Trail in the eastern United States. It is still under development as of 2016. From south to north, it runs from Flagg Mountain through Alabama, Georgia, Tennessee, Kentucky, West Virginia, Virginia, Maryland and Pennsylvania, ending in western New York state. A connection from Flagg Mountain south to the Florida-Georgia border is considered ""Phase II Development"". It is a potential connector in the US National Trails System, linking the Florida National Scenic Trail in the south to the"
"the wilderness. The longest of these is Kelsey Trail, , which descends through a forest of ponderosa pine, Gambel oak, and juniper into chaparral at lower elevations. The upper-canyon group of trails intersect with others further downstream. Among these is the Taylor Cabin Trail, which leads to a cabin formerly used by cowboys who grazed cattle in the canyon. The cabin is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. It may also be approached from downstream along the Sycamore Basin Trail, which intersects other trails such as the Dogie Trail that descends about into the canyon from Sycamore Pass,"
"inevitable dysentery are lively, amusing, laughable episodes."" The American novelist Rick Skwiot enjoyed the ""blithely confident Brit's"" narrative style, finding echoes of its concept, structure and humour in Bill Bryson's ""A Walk in the Woods"". Skwiot notes the hazards of the journey as crevasses, precipices, thieves, bears, disease, thirst, hunger. ""Somehow they blunder on toward their whimsical destination"", he remarks, the ""seductive and tickling narrative"" told with ""understatement, self-effacement, savage wit, honed irony, and unrelenting honesty."" The reader is drawn in ""by his endearingly flawed humanity."" In ""Varieties of Nostalgia in Contemporary Travel Writing"", Patrick Holland and Graham Huggan observed"
"Hole in the Rock Trail The Hole in the Rock Trail (often hyphenated as Hole-in-the-Rock) is a historic trail running east-southeast from the town of Escalante in southern Utah in the western United States. The Mormon trailblazers who established this trail crossed the Colorado River and ended their journey in the town of Bluff. The Hole-in-the-Rock expedition established the trail in 1879. The trail is located within the borders of the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument, the adjacent Glen Canyon National Recreation Area and federal Bureau of Land Management (BLM) public land to the east of the Colorado River. A geologic"
"is varied. The trail passes through several different biomes from south to north, and the climate changes significantly, particularly dependent upon elevation. In the south, lowland forests consist mainly of second-growth; nearly the entire trail has been logged at one time or another. There are, however, a few old growth locations along the trail, such as Sages Ravine straddling the Massachusetts-Connecticut border and atop higher peaks along the trail on either side of the same border, the Hopper (a glacial cirque westward of the trail as it traverses Mt. Greylock in Massachusetts), and ""The Hermitage"", near Gulf Hagas in Maine."
"on foot or horseback. There are 1,500 miles (2,400 km) of trails in the forest, along with 32 improved campgrounds, lodges, and three scenic vehicular byways. U.S. Route 14 in Wyoming, also known as the Bighorn Scenic Byway, crosses the middle of the 30-mile (48 km) wide forest. The Medicine Wheel Passage (U.S. Highway 14A) crosses in the north passing the Medicine Wheel National Historic Landmark, while the Cloud Peak Skyway (U.S. Route 16) crosses the highest pass in the forest (Powder River Pass 9,677 ft/ 2,950 m) and is located in the southern section of the forest. The forest"
"Bigfoot Trail The Bigfoot Trail is an unofficial U.S. long-distance hiking trail in northern California. The Bigfoot Trail was originally proposed by Michael Kauffmann in 2009 as a suggested route to navigate the Klamath Mountains from south to north as well as a long-trail to introduce nature lovers to the biodiversity of the Klamath Mountains region. The trail begins in the Yolla Bolly-Middle Eel Wilderness and ends in Redwood National Park at the Pacific Ocean near Crescent City, California. A major focus along the trail is conifer diversity, passing 32 species in . The route crosses six wilderness areas, one"
"to Key West and on to the Galapagos, Marquesas and Society Islands. Photos also document the Darwin-like odyssey. Although the book is currently out of print, it can be found. Gifford Pinchot National Forest in Washington and Gifford Pinchot State Park in Lewisberry, Pennsylvania, are named in his honor, as is Pinchot Hall at Penn State University. A large Coast Redwood in Muir Woods, California, is also named in his honor, as is Pinchot Pass on the John Muir Trail in the Kings Canyon National Park in California. The Pinchot Sycamore, the largest tree in his native state of Connecticut"
"Hundred-Mile Wilderness The Hundred-Mile Wilderness is the section of the Appalachian Trail running between Abol Bridge just south of Baxter State Park and Monson in the state of Maine. It is generally considered the wildest section of the Appalachian Trail, and one of the most challenging to navigate and traverse. This section of the A.T. is crossed by several logging roads and is maintained by the Maine Appalachian Trail Club. It consists of a small corridor of protected wilderness surrounded by large tracts of public and private land controlled by paper companies. An increasing amount of the adjoining lands are"