The Appalachian Trail:
A Journey of
Discovery
Table of Contents
- Learning to Walk
- Springer Mountain to Neels Gap
Getting Started
- Reflections on the Way to Montray
- The First Test
- The Nantahalas
Getting in Shape
- Building a New Perspective
The Nantahala Gorge to Fontana Dam
- The Great Smokies
Clingman's Dome to Pigeon River
One with the Trail
- Max Patch and Hot Springs, North Carolina
The Beginning of Understanding
- Hot Springs, North Carolina to Erwin, Tennessee
Coming to Terms with the Trail
- Erwin and the Episode on Beauty Spot Mountain
- Roan Mountain
Challenge and Success
- Hump Mountain to Braemer, Tennessee
At Peace with the Trail
- Braemer, Tennessee to Damascus, Virginia
The Battle Continues
- The Methodist Hostel
- Whitetop Laurel Gorge and the Grayson Highlands
- The Blessings on Garden Mountain
- Bastian, Virginia to Pearisburg, Virginia
- The Holy Family Hospice
- Pearisburg to Cloverdale
- To the Blue Ridge and Buena Vista
- The Blue Ridge to Rockfish Gap
- The Struggle Continues
The Shenandoah National Park
- A Journey Done - Half Way
POEMS
- Reflections on Springer Mountain
- Long Creek Falls
- Mountains
- Max Patch
- Uncle Nick Gindstaff
- Arrowhead
- Dragons Tooth
- Punchbowl Shelter in the Rain
- Brown Mountain Creek Ruins
- On Hiking
MAPS
- Springer Mountain, Georgia, to Fontana Dam, North Carolina
- Fontana Dam, NC, to Damascus, Virginia
- Damascus, VA, to Pearisburg, VA
- Pearisburg, VA to Turners Gap, Maryland