Posts Tagged ‘Liz-Thomas’
Exhilarated by my own human power
By: Liz Thomas, American Hiking Society Ambassador When I was a freshmen in high school, I wrote an essay about my first time mowing a lawn. It seems like a…
Read More#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…
Read MoreHiking 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…
Read MoreWomen 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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