By Victoria Logue, Frank Logue
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A vintage now in its Fourth variation, The Appalachian path Hiker is today’s platinum general for the most recent must-have details for the four million day, part, and through hikers who discover the Appalachian path every year. The consultant comprises: the most recent info on mountain climbing the AT with a GPS; accomplished path membership info, together with web content; beneficial step by step info on getting ready to hike the A.T.; the most important details on foodstuff and vitamin; increased assurance on shelters, cabins, and campgrounds; and information on picking out the easiest apparatus. With assistance from dozens of A.T. hikers, the authors have collected over 100,000 miles of A.T. adventure into this common sense advisor at the nation’s oldest path process. no matter if you're making plans an in a single day hike in Virginia, a two-week trek in the course of the Smokies, or a via hike from Georgia to Maine, The Appalachian path Hiker is your passport to A.T. adventures within the new millennium.
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