On Sept. 11, 1990, Geoff Hood and Molly LaRue spent the night at the Doyle Hotel in Duncannon. They unpacked, called their parents, ate, picked up their mail. The next day, after lunch with family, ...

I won a permit and hiked The Wave, an unmarked trail that runs through Utah and Arizona. Only 64 permits are issued each day, and we had to attend a safety briefing before hiking. Once we filled out a ...

As America has transformed, so too has its celebrated footpath. Less than half the A.T. remains where it was originally laid. July 27 at 7:00 a.m. MCAFEE KNOB, Va. — The morning fog had just begun to ...

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Each spring, people from around the country descend on Springer Mountain, one hour north of metro Atlanta, to start a very long walk. About 3,000 hikers a year attempt the Appalachian Trail—the ...

It could have all ended in that cool rainstorm in southwest Virginia. My dad, Sam Poston, had slipped in the mud and badly twisted his knee the first morning of our inaugural backpacking trip on the ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I'm an American writer working in fiction and nonfiction. Michael P. Branch’s On the Trail of the Jackalope is a marvelous romp in ...