Every spring, thousands of hikers step onto a 2,183-mile (give or take some) footpath known as The Appalachian Trail that travels from Springer Mountain, Ga., to Mount Katahdin, Maine. If they start ...

People turn to a multitude of outlets to exorcise demons. They get lost in their jobs, their passions, their relationships, but one Nanticoke woman got lost in the woods. Keri Venarchick, 26, walked 2 ...

Sometime between a six-day hike along The Appalachian Trail in Great Smoky Mountains National Park and the start of a planned seven-day hike from Springer Mountain, Ga., to Dicks Creek Gap, I tagged ...

It took Scott Jurek 46 days, 8 hours and 7 minutes to make the 2,189-mile hike from Springer Mountain, Ga., to the top of Maine's Mount Katahdin. 2,189 miles in 46 days, 8 hours and 7 minutes. That's ...

Every year, thousands of trekkers attempt to complete the Appalachian Trail, yet only several hundred will succeed in making their way from Springer Mountain, Ga., to Katahdin, Maine, entirely on foot ...

Come Feb. 1, Doug Frazier will realize his four-year goal of hiking the entire Appalachian Trail. Up and back — from Springer Mountain, Ga., to Mount Katahdin, Maine. The trail measures 2,178 miles in ...

Jessica Sweeney of Duluth is closing in on her goal to hike the 2,175-mile Appalachian Trail, which runs from Georgia to Maine. Sweeney, 28, started hiking north from Springer Mountain, Ga., on March ...