#HikingMakesMe – Liz Thomas

American Hiking Society Ambassador, Liz Thomas, responds to our #HikingMakesMe interview.  My name is Liz Thomas, but my friends call me Snorkel because that is my trail name. When I…

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Hiking the Unfinished Trail

Hike 3,100 miles from Canada to Mexico along the grizzly-bear infested Continental Divide Trail? No way. The few hikers I met who had walked the Divide called it a “trail in…

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Women Going the Distance

When I was 18, I announced to my parents that I wanted to hike 2,000 miles along the Appalachian Mountains. My parents thought I was crazy and couldn’t understand why a girl…

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