Note: Links to commercial sites do not imply a recommendation.

1998

• 12-30 - Here's a page about a 59 mile trail in SW Virginia, the New River Trail - for hiking, biking and x-country skiing.
• 12-21 - Kurt Kirsch has a page with lots of AT photos.
• 12-17 - There was a recent review of "The Appalachian Forest, A Search For Roots and Renewal" in the Washington Post. Since that link would soon expire, the link here is to Amazon.
• 12-17 - There was a commentary entitled "A Complicated Hike" in the December 13 Sunday Post.
• 12-15 Mike, Blaine and Steve have a page for their 1999 AT Thru-hike
• 12-11 Steve Hall sent in his article entitled "The Liar's Bench" which originally papeared in a Conyers, GA paper.
• 12-1 - Bruce Ezell has a page for the AT including a page about the AT in Pennsylvania.

• 11-21 - From a post by Al (Draggin Anchor) to the AT Mailing list:
  An article about Hammer and Kodiak's 98 thruhike which you can reach this way: Go to www.charleston.net. Click on the drop down menu labled 'News Menu', and select 'Archives'. When the archives page opens, enter Discovery Trail in the "search words" box, click the 1998 button, and click begin search. The first article that comes up is what you want. (Then click on "get story". So far access to the archives is free.)
• 11-14 - Plea from Walasi-Yi Center - which has been operating at Neel's Gap, since 1983. After fifteen years, their contract with the state of Georgia is now under review.
• 11-12 - Steve Goodrich thru-hiked in '94 and has lots of AT photos on his www.n2backpacking.com site.

• 10-31 - Earl Shaffer was interviewed on today's Whad'Ya Know? Show (To hear the interview requires the RealAudio Player.) Here is a direct link to the interview.
• 10-31 - Kenyon Karl's Rail-Trails in NH, VT and ME page.
• 10-30 - Chat with Earl Shaffer - script from 10-28 ABC News
• 10-29 Walkers' Survey from University of California
• 10-24 Story about Earl from CBS News. And another story from MSNBC. (Links may not last very long.)
• 10-23 - See the last item on the page: Segment on All Things Considered on NPR with Earl Shaffer after he completed his hike. (You need the free Real Audio player.)
• 10-22 - CNN story about Earl finishing the trail.
• 10-15 - Vincent Pernice reported this link: The ABC news website is doing a three part series on the AT.
• 10 - 14 - Rick Boudrie told me about this AP article about Earl's hike.
• 10-2 An article about Earl Shaffer which appeared in the September 17 Valley News (Lebanon, N.H.) and was sent to me by the author.

• 9-30 - Man charged in trail rape held for trial - Hagerstown Herald Mail
• 9-28 - Andy let me know about a new profile map of the 238.8 AT miles in PATC territory that has just been published. See info about it on the PATC maps page.
• 9-24 - Jim Greenway's "Traildog" e-mail list and the "Traildog Hiker's Shelter"
• 9-23 4th Annual Pow Wow in Damascus, Virginia
• 9-15 Milt Webb reported that there had been a story about Earl Shaffer on the CNN website in August.
• 9-11 - Ben Griffith reported that his brother, Jonathan Griffith,  and Dawn Wood  are due to finish in mid-October.
• 9-2 Linked to a page for the ALDHA Gathering - October 9-11 in Athens, West Virginia.
• 8-19 -Frank Wihbey, editor of Maine Nature News, has posted reports for his Nature observations made on section-hikes in New Hampshire. Here is his 1998 report and here is one from 1997.
• 8-16 The Mount Rogers AppalachianTrail Club is now online.
• 8-15 Jamie Chapman has put up a page with lots of Damascus Trail Days pictures.
• Recent Washington Post Articles: (Will expire two weeks after date)
  • August 8 - Owners Stand Their Ground in Land Dispute
  • August 14 - Suspect Held in Stabbing Of Appalachian Trail Hiker
  • August 15 - No Link Found Between Slayings, Attack on Hiker
• 8-14 - John Lafleur reported finding this story about Earl Shaffer.
• 8-8 - Rick Boudrie told me about this article in a Toledo paper.
• 7-17 - Spencer & Sarah Knoch's Little Tree Adventures offers hikes and shuttle services in the Baxter Park - Bangor area in Maine.
• 7-16 Phisch reported that there was an article in the Philadelphia Inquirer about Earl Shaffer's current hike.
• 7-15 Tom Norulak has put a map of the AT onto T-Shirts. Appalachian Trail Map Tee Shirt page
• 7-11 - Jay Platt will be starting a southbound hike on August 1 to raise awareness and funds for the Von Hippel Lindau Family Alliance.
• 7-7 - Ohio woman airlifted from Maine trail - Rick Boudrie told me about this article in the Akron paper.
• 6-28 - Aricle from the Pocono Record
• 6-22 - The Walton's Mountain Museum in Schuyler, VA. Also a lionk to some Smoky Mountain National Park Maps

  Teenager left home and is missing - notice posted to HyperNews area.

• 6-20 - Story on CNN: Appalachian Trial hikers greet summer -- in the Nude
• 6-17 - Richard Lenat told me that Thoreau's account of his "Ktaadn" trip is now online at a new Thoreau site. ANd a report from Stephanie Tyndall on current conditions in Maine.
• 6-14 - If you have the free RealAudio Player you can listen to an interview with Bill Bryson, author of "A Hike in the Woods" broadcast on ATC (the other one) on June 14.
• 6-13 - Bobby deVos is beginning at Davenport Gap in June to try to complete his hike to Katahdin.
• 6-10 A man who fled from a police officer Monday was apprehended and charged Tuesday in the rape of a woman on the Appalachian Trail in Franklin County, Pa. Full Story
• 6-7 Washington Post Book Review of "A Walk in the Woods" - (Link will be good for approximately 2 weeks.)
• 6-7 Possibility that FBI fugitive is using AT and/or other NC-TN mountain trails to elude capture. (Segment aired on America's Most Wanted on 6-6.)
• 6-6 - Ed Crim has a journal for a month-long hike in 1994.
• 6-5 - From Hagerstown Herald-Mail Website: Woman Attacked in Quincy Township, Pennsylvania
• 6-4 - James Bryan has some pics from the trail in Tennessee.
• 6-2 - Alain Raitt let me know that Bill Irwin, author of Blind Courage, now has a page. (I have been amazed that no one has ever commented to me about the other Bill Irwin page which has been linked here for well over 2 years... :-) I was quite surprised when I heard from that Bill Irwin, assuming it was the other one...and was sure lots of folks would notice that here was a page by someone with the same name as author Bill Irwin. I think quite a number have not realized that the other Bill was indeed another Bill even after visiting his website, as evidenced by many messages in his guestbook.)

• 5-26 - Found a page for the Ironmaster's Mansion Hostel in Pine Grove, PA.
• 5-12 Andy HIltz sent Bob Levey at the Washington Post some info about volunteer work on the part of PATC in the aftermath of this winter's ice damage. It's in his column today. (This URL will be good for 2 weeks.)
• 5-8 ATC is selling a new night camping t-shirt. A portion of the proceeds will be used to provide funds for outreach programs for inner-city youths and people with special needs
  Also, ATC has a page about the Clinton-Gore Earth Day visit to the AT.
• 5-1 Milt Webb's TrailFest pics, including some of Earl Schaffer
• 4-30 Ben and Gay's Appalachian Adventure - Ben is 61 years old. His wife, Gay, is 57.
• 4-29 A group of women and children are doing a supported hike of the AT - Bluemoon Adventures
• 4-28 Links added to some websites where you can search for and buy used and ot of print books.
• 4-23 - An Envirolink Report about Harpers Ferry, a Hagerstown Morning-Herald report, and another story from the Hagerstown paper.
• 4-22 - Bruce Ezell reports about the Port Clinton Hotel in Pennsylvania.
• 4-21 - Guess who's volunteering on the AT near Harpers Ferry on Earth Day.
• 4-19 - An article from the Post from last year about wildflowers along the AT in the Thompson Wildlife Management Area in Virginia, especially the Large-flowered Trillium (Trillium grandiflorum) And an article on the same topic from the Richmond-Times Dispatch
• 4-16 Jim Loudon reported that there was a front page story in the Philadelphia Inquirer yesterday about the Delaware Water Gap outhouse that made the news a few months ago.
• 4-4 - Found an undated article in the Carlisle Sentinel about the AT.
• 4-3 - Hiker's Paradise in Gorham, NH now has a page.
• 4-1 - What does the word Appalachian mean?

• 3-30 Article by Bill Bryson in April Outside Magazine: "You Gotta Have Friends." (This looks to be adapted from the book, "A Walk in the Woods," due for publication in the U.S. in June.)
• 3-29 Jeff Smith's A Hiker's Guide to the White Mountains
• 3-22 - tamassee.com - Guidebooks and Maps for all 50 States
• 3-16 - Jamie Chapman and Judy Nicholson have written a tribute to Sam Waddle, in honor of his 25 years of maintaining the trail in the Coldspring Mountain area on the Tennessee/North Carolina state line.
• 3-15 - Ron Ott, Jr. is doing a "Hike Against Cancer" this year in memory of Rich "Blind Owl" Sprow.
  ALso a link for Erwin, TN. (It has the 1916 story about the elephant.)
• 3-14 - The perfect picnic basket to take along on your next AT hike. :-)
• 3-13 - A link to some adaptations of bits of Lynn Setzer's book, A Season on the Appalachian Trail, and also an AT forum on GORP (reported to the AT-L by Carl a.k.a. inspector)
• 3-11 - Brian Vaughan started his thruhike on 2/24.
  And Bud and Vicki Hogan have put up a page for their 1996 hike from Amacalola Falls to Damascus.
• 3-10 - Links to Shenandoah and Natural Bridge ice damage information.
• 3-7 - Michael Chiarella will be starting a thru-hike in March.

• 2-25 - You can get email updates from Webhiker Mat Olsen by getting on his mailing list.
• 2-21 - Courtney Smith is starting his thru-hike in March.
• 2-17 -Another Herald-Mail article about the cell tower in Harpers Ferry.
• 2-13 - Storm News about Shenandoah Park (2-12) reported by Andy Hiltz
  And to learn about the impact of a proposed 765kv powerline whose planned path would cross the AT, see the page of Friend of Regional Culture and Evironment
• 2-11 - Another article about Harpers Ferry cell tower and Kenyon sent in the URL for this 1-23 article about Saddleback.
• 2-9 - Kenyon Karl sent in a link to a Real Audio file from 1/15 - an NPR story about the ice damage in the Pinkham Notch area.
• 2-7 - Link on other links page to the Cumberland Trail in eastern Tennessee. [Warning: There has been a report of this link causing Win 3.1 lockup using Netscape]
• 2-6 - Update on Walasy-Yi (Most facilities open)
• 2-5 -Andre Therriault planned a two month hike in 1997. page includes databook info for southern states, as well os post office info for all the states.
  Added a link to Sandra Downs' Page - Cyberwall - The Great Outdoors -
• 2-4 - Wahah Bald Info and pictures
• Groundhog Day - River and Trail Outfitters, near Harpers Ferry

• 1-29 - Winter Trip to Katahdin
• Should Cell Phones be Allowed in the backcountry?
• 1-21 - Ice Storm Report from New Hampshire AMC
• 1-16 - Ice Damage Reports - ATC See also AMC Storm Damage Info
• Appalachian Mountain Gear in Massachusetts
• 1-14 - Florida Backpacker's Trailplace linked on other links page.
• 1-13 - Another article about the proposed cell tower and article about the Washington Monument.
• 1-10 - Sunny Whitedog took his human along on his 1997 thruhike.
• 1-9 - Another article about proposed Harpers Ferry tower.
• 1-8 - More news regarding proposed tower in Harpers Ferry
• 1-7 - Nantahala Winter Road Closings Affect Trail Access (from Jack Coriell of the Nantahala A.T. Club.)
• 1-3 - An excerpt from Ed Garvey's new book, The New Appalachian Trail (on the GORP website)

  1997

• 12-30 Bob Hawtin told me about this page about the ongoing search for a small plane lost in the mountains of New Hampshire in December, 1996. They are looking for volunteers to help with the search in the spring.
• 12-29 Kenyon Karl told me about an article about the International A.T. which appeared over the summer in the Bangor Daiy News.
• 12-23 - George Cathcart has put up a journal of his 1982 hike.
• 12-19 - Article about proposed 260' cell tower right in Harpers Ferry. :-( and another article from December 17. (Hagerstown Herald-Mail)
• 12-16 - Jan Stowell's thru-hiking stories.
• 12-8 - National Parks Weather - Choose: Shenandoah (in VA), Great Smoky (in TN), or Gettysburg (in PA). (The latter is not too far from the trail.)

• 11-25 Linked to the new page for the American Long Distance Hiking Association - West on the other links page.
• 11-23 - Smoky Mountains Live Cam - Picture taken from Gatlinburg every 30 minutes
• 11-20 - David Wilcox's October 1997 7 day Georgia hike (Dave used to be the computer guy at ATC.)
• Ruby Rose Inn - Stanley
• Uncle Milt's Scrapbook
• 11-16 - A new webpage by Andrew Hyman, hostelmeister of the Harpers Ferry Hostel, about the potential siting of telecommunications antennas within view of the A.T. And another page by David Appell on a similar topic Wireless in the Wilderness.
• John Curan has an idea about organized trail angeling.
• 11-15 - Here is the online version of the ATC booklet, Walking the A.T. Step byStep.
• More of the parts of Jim Owen's Thru Hiking Papers, originally posted on the AT-L mailing list, have now been posted on Daniel's site.
• 11-13 - Washington Monument St. Park (MD) Hawk Watching Information.
• 11-12 - The Mountain Crossings at Walasi-Yi Center wants to let folks know that the hostel at Neel's Gap will be closed for the 1998 season. The rest of facilities are open however. [Webpage has been having problems - so the page may not be reachable - 2/7]
• 11-10 North Hagerstown High School has put up an atlas of the greater Hagerstown region. It includes some photos of the Washington Monument and the Gathland Arch, two monuments in Maryland right along the A.T.
• 11-8 Harpers Ferry Hostel
• Found an "estimation activity worksheet" about the A.T. .....
• 11-6 Daniel Berlinger has put the first installment of Jim "Bald Eagle" Owen's "Thruhiking Papers" on the web. These cogent observations were originally posted to the AT-L mailing list.
• 11-4 Christine and Tim Conners invite you to submit your trail recipes to their forthcoming book, "The National Scenic Trails Cookbook".
• 11-3 - Weather Carrot has been doing some research at the ATC on state highpoints along the AT.
• 11-1 - Magnetic Poetry - This isn't exactly A.T. related, though I suppose one could use it to write a poem about the A.T. :-)

• 10-25 - Sierra Club (Massachusetts Chapter) Mt. Greylock Page
• 10-24 - The DCSki Website profiles this A.T. page.
• 10-9 - Outhouse at Delaware Water Gap (Thanks, Jim L.)
• 10-6 - The Green Mountain Club - including their page on the Long Trail. - I don't know how long they've been online...but I just happened to find them today...
• Bridge Street Cafe and Inn - Hot Springs

• 9-30 - You can now order AT books, maps, etc. online from the ATC Trail Store
• Wired's page about his '95 and '96 hikes
• Found a page by 1996 thru-hiker Peter Christoph about his hike.
• "Sparky Chester" is NOT fond of the Internet!! (Thanks, Milt.)
• Gifford Woods State Park, Vermont.
• The Trail near Dahlonega, Georgia.
• 9-26 - Thru-hiking question in Outside Magazine and another from September '97.
• "I Hear America Slogging" - article from May '96 Outside Magazine.
• 9-22 - Saddleback Mountain (ME) Update
• 9-4 - Article about A.T. from Travel and Leisure Magazine

• 8-25 Learned about Megan's hike page.
• 8-20 Put up a Maine moose picture sent to me by Trader John some time back which sort of got buried in my computer....
• 8-17 - The A.T. in Georgia - with history of trail there plus trail descriptions and invitation for hikers to rate portions o the trail for difficulty.
• 8-16 - Blood Mountain Hike
• 8-12 - WalkAbout Travel Gear
• 8-10 - A call for essays from a former thru-hiker.
• 8-8 A wonderful new white blaze photo arrived in the mail yesterday created by Milt Webb which I decided to put at the top of the page. Thanks, Milt!!
• The Rangeley, ME Public Library and to the Town of Rangeley.
• Web Trails - links to a variety of trails, many in Britain - on the Other Links page.
• 8-7 A link to the GW and Jefferson National Forests page and another to the USFS Research Station - Asheville page.
• 8-4 Matt Olsen's prospective 1998 hike and business thesis.
• Found a link for a page (in Dutch) about an ongoing hike along a famous pilgrimage route in Europe. There's an interesting book about this route.
• 8-3 Page from HikeNet on Dealing with Bears.
• Walkin' Jim Stolz has a page.

• 7-18 - Kenton Karl has updated his Public Transportation in New Hampshire Vermont & Maine Page
• 7-17 - Hiking Old Rag in SNP and Michael Connick's Trip Report and Pics from New Jersey

• 6-27 The city of Kingsport, Tennessee
• 6-25 The AMC now has an official website.
• 6-21 - Created a chart showing how many have hiked the whole AT.
• 6-18 - Linked to Kyle Purves' Katahdin Page and also to his maps on the maps page.
• 6-14 - Added a link to Ken Forrester's pics from the Trail.
• Waldo has a June 12 update on his page as he sets out to complete his hike.
• 6-4 - All the Way's Journal has been updated a bit.
• Terry Hamrick's page is back after an absence when it had no server on which to live...

• 5-31 Outdoor Classified - a site where you can buy and sell used camping equipment.
• 5-29 -Some pics from Trail Days in Damascus of folks from the AT-L mailing list.
• The Rhymin' Worm has an onging ballad about his '97 hike.
• 5-26 - A story from the Washington Post about last year's hiker murders in Shenandoah Park.
• 5-21 - Pete Fornof has a page and pics of his April hike.
• Marv Welte's May trip from Springer 10 days north.
• 5-19 - New parking fees are being instituted in the White Mountains National Forest in New Hampshire.
• 5-13 - The Maine A.T. Club page has just been put up by Terry Karkos. (Links that aren't working now should be working later in the day.)
• 5 - 8 - Marc Lusignan brought this website for the Sentier International des Appalaches (The International Appalachian Trail) to my attention.
• Link to Long Distance Footpaths in Britain added on the other links page.
• Cranmore Mt. Lodge has $17/pp hostel rates, including breakfast.
• 5/7 - Added more recent report, as well as Jan's introduction, to her husband's page.
• 5/6 - Southern Appalachians Highlands Conservancy
• 5/2 - Black Dome Mountain Sports - Asheville, NC
• Chet Fromm has a page about his '87-'88 hike and you can get to his extensive page on backpacking from there.

• 4-30 - Here's a page about a 1992 hike by the Wanderers, as well as a link to the prospective summer '97 hike of the Moaks.
• Matthew Miller's CHA Pics.
• 4-29 - John Hines wrote to let me know about Jim and Steph's Appalachian Adventure, a page he's maintaining for his friends.
• 4-26 - Milt Webb's Scrapbook of pictures of some 1997 thru-hikers.
• Bob Seiler's 1997 Journal
• David Covin has begun putting up his journal.
• 4-25 - Damascus, VA, a town with a reputation of being very friendly to hikers, is now online.
• 4-23 - The Good Heavens - 6 Days on the AT
• 4-19 - Charles Swanson suggested a link to Charles Lindsay's page about light weight hiking gear.
• 4-17 - The American Trails site
• Sean Hurley is keeping a not-so-standard journal of his planned '97 hike.
• Apple Tree B'n'B in Damascus
• 4-14 - John Eaton's AT Trip Guide (New England Portion of AT)
• 4-7 - Rick Brannon's 1974 hike is now coming online... with more to be appearing in coming weeks.

• 3-26 - Altimap Software - allows the user to navigate the geographical terrain contained in U.S. National Parks
• 3-21 Natural Bridge A.T. Club now has a page. It includes a link to Bill and Laurie Foot's 1997 American Discovery Trail Trip.
• 3-15 - Link to Andy Rogers' Katahdin page.
• 3-13 - 1997 Walk across Europe for the Homeless
• 3-11 - Added some info about IRC chat times.
• 3-9 - Made a Site Index for the A.T. page which has links to virtually all the (local) pages contained herein.
• 3-8 - The public library in Damascus, VA.
• Roan Mountain page from East Tennessee State University.
• 3-5 - The Tidewater A. T. Club now has a page.
• A page for the American Discovery Trail is in the making.
• Hiking Trailheads in Western Maine
• 3-4 - Kenyon Karl's Info for Hikers in Vermont regarding public transportation.

• 2-27 - John Campbell Folk School - in Brasstown, NC.
• Linked to Abingdon, VA website.
• Linked to MASS and Rootboy's Upcoming Thru Hike Page.
• 2/25 - Answer to botanical quiz posted.
• Added link to info about the Virginia Tech Outing Club
• 2/24 - There's now a page for the Appalachian Trail Conference!!
• 2/21 - Trailsoft has a beta version of its Long Trail software available.
• 2/18 - An article about '96 hiker Jackalope's hike from a Lynchburg paper.
• Added new ATC Email Addresses.
• 2/15 - Here's a page about places of net access along the trail.
• 2/15 - Ron Moak's Trail Resources came online. [frames]
• 2/14 - Added a link to a map of the AT in the Franconia Notch Region in the Whites in N.H. from the White Mountains Info Server and to a a map of the A.T. from the P.A.T.H. page (Mount Rogers area) on the maps page.
• 2/12 - What was Gearge Steffanos' work-in-progress, "Then the Hail Came" is no longer "In Progress." It is now complete!!
• 2/7 - David Covin is planning to begin a thru-hike in early April and update his webpage using his wearable computer.
• Richard Lenat told me about the Morris County Trails page. (New Jersey)
• 2/6 - Linked to a page for the Hilltop House in Harpers Ferry.

• 1/31 - Kenyon Karl told me about a page he's making about public transportation in NH.
• Brian Edge's journal and slide how of his hike through the 100 mile wilderness in Maine.
• 1/29 - What??? A Botanical Contest??? Yes....Right This Way
• Kevin Hoffman's photo journal of his '96 hike.
• 1/28 - Clay and Scott's '97 Thru-hike to raise funds for fighting cancer. Walkin' Jim Stoltz's Pacific Crest Trail Hike Page
• 1/27 - The Website for National Take Back the Trails Day
• Found a site for State Parks in general and some links to particular parks along the AT in NY and NJ.
• 1/26 - Added a link to all links to the A.T. page (as found by Alta Vista.) It's at the bottom of the main page.
• There's now a page for the Maine '97 A.T. Conference.
• The Professor has put up a photo journal of his '95 hike.
• A page for the Mount Washington Observatory.
• January 24 - Some pictures from Georgia including the shelter at Blood Mountain.
  
• January 21 - Take Back the Trails PCT HIke in honor of Julie and Lollie, who were slain last year in Shenandoah Park, as well as other women victims of violence in the backcountry.
• The page about the murders in SNP is now linked to from the Virginia portion of the State-by-State page rather than from the main page.
• Rob Cleveland and his friend Neal are planning to set out on February 1 with a friend at home maintaining their webpage, entitled "The Whole Shebang."
• A road tour of the A.T - a website reported to the AT-L mailing list by Don.
• Added a navigation bar at the tops of pages with links to some of the pages on this website.
• Put links to various A.T. hike journals on a separate page.
• January 16 - Discovered a site devoted to National Parks. [captive]
• Added a link to Western Carolina University after the webmaster, John Neuman, told me about the page.
• January 14 - Trader John a.k.a. John Wesley Gordon told me about a page for Baxter State Park. [captive]
• January 8 - Mark Holmes has a page about his and his wife's 1995 hike. It includes a page for links to pages of fellow hikers, many from the AT-L mailing list.
• January 6 - Rachel DuBois' Appalachian Trail Journey - scheduled to start in March '97
• Phil Romans has some spreadsheets he made for his upcoming A.T. hike.
• Some hiking info for the Red River Gorge in Kentucky, as well as Shawnee State Park in Ohio and more
• January 3 - Beau Bushor has made his Appalachian Trail 2 Meter Repeater Guide available.
• Ed Daniels' 1996 Appalachian Trail Journal
• January 1, 1997 - Rick Holt has created a page for Park Rangers on the Web including Shenandoah National Park Ranger Christopher Everett.

  1996

• December 30 - Benjamin Reese's pictures of some '96 thru-hikers.
• December 29 - Endangered Species Program at U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
• Many thanks to Milt Webb for the new graphic for the top of the page.
• Eric Holsinger has created the page New England TrailHead: an Outdoor Starting Point (For frames-capable browsers)
• December 27 - Found a page where there are links to many state departments of Natural Resources.
• December 20 - Linked to GeoTrek - TrailMaster - Hiking Software
• December 19 - Ryan's Mailing Lists Page - for the Appalachian Tail mailing list as well as the Pacific Crest, and Ice Age Trail lists.
• December 17 - Jurretta Heckscher told me about the very intersting page The Evolution of the Conservation Movement 1850 - 1920, a project of the Library of Congress.
• Jerry Wright informed me that Panel 10 of rec.backcountry - information about volunteer trail work - has just been put online.
• December 16 - Mark Paterick suggested a link to the map collection at the U. of Texas.
• The Smokies Magazine
• December 14 - Linked to 3rd Marble General Store in the commercial section of the Other Links page.
• December 13 - Bronco and Puddin's 1996 Hike
• December 12 - A link to a number of Bed and Breakfasts in the Smokies, many reported to be hiker-friendly.
• November 24 - Added link to Charles Davidson's A.T. Chat Page
• November 21 - Fox Hill Inn - Troutdale, VA near Mt. Rogers is run by thru-hikers and has special rates for thru-hikers.
• November 9 - Shenandoah Park Information
• November 8 - Knoxville News Sentinel Smoky Mountains Page
• October 29 - Volunteers sought for November
• October 21 - The Lorax's Pics from Carolina and Two Days of Thru-Hike Journal

Between September 6 and October 13
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• George Steffanos' work-in-progress about his 1983 thru-hike.
• Sheffield Pizza Bar where hikers can check email close to the trail.
• Gutsy's 1996 Thru-Hike - originally posted to the A.T. mailing list
• Victoria Logue's Story of Springer Mountain
• The Long Trail (Vermont) - Maps
• Ron and Linda Moak's site seems to be working again.
• Wingfoot's Trailplace is due to be operational on November 1.
• Hiking in France added to the Other Links page.

Between August 1 and September 5
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• Report of additional reward being offered in the SNP murders.
• Linked to a page for the Benton Mackaye Trail.
• Here's a page for the Roanoke (Virginia) Valley Web
• Here's a link for the Finger Lakes Trail in New York.
• Eastern Trails - an E-Zine about trails and trail maintenance.
• North Carolina Natural 'Zine
• Backpacker Magazine Hiking Page
• Maine A.T. Club Information

Between June 16 and July 31
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Linked to the Appalachian Long Distance Hikers Association

Between May 26 and June 15
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• Added a link to Maine Nature News in the Maine state-by-state area.
• Linked to an NPS page for the Delaware Water Gap Recreation Area.
• Found some information about cooperative efforts regarding Greenways in the Czech Republic
• A page about the tragic events in SNP.
• Snow White on the A.T. - a story from the Discovery page.
• Northeast Georgia Mountains Page Grayson Highlands State Park

Week of May 19
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• Made a small page for the Trust for Appalachian Trail Lands.
• Added a link to an article stored at Cornell about Sterling Forest + some other Sterling info. From there one can find links to additional New York environmental info.
• A link to a map of Sterling Forest residing on the AMC-NYNoJ Page.

Week of April 28
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• Linked to the Hudson Valley Network. The AT runs through Putnam, Dutchess and Orange Counties.
• The Fontana Village Resort is now online.
• More reports from the Kushmans have been added.

Week of April 7
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• Added a link to GORP's new page about the Green Mountain National Forest in the Vermont section of the State by State page.
• Rick Holt sent me a link for his 1973 hike through Maine and New Hampshire.
• Added a link on the otherlinks page to BackPack Chat at 4, 7 and 10 P.M. EST.

Week of March 24
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• There's a new page for the Tennessee Eastman Hiking and Canoeing Club.
• More reports have been added to the Kushmans' page.

Week of March 10
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• Added an update by the Kushmans from Blueberry Patch.
• Find out about the A.T. in New Jersey thanks to Tom Caggiano.
• Added a link to the Genessee Valley Greenway in New York.

Week of March 3
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• The Kushmans left Springer on March and are filing their trip reports to me electronically.
• Linked to the new page for the Alabama Trails Association in the other links page.
• Added a description of what's involved with working on the volunteer trail crews to the application form.

Week of February 25
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• There is now an ATC volunteer crew application online.
• Linked to Eva Hadjaki's page about hiking in Greece.
• Linked to the NY-NJ Chapter of the A.M.C. on the clubs page. This NJ-NY page was just announced recently in rec.backcountry.
• Found a link to a recent Usenet post about a winter ascent of Katahdin.
• Added the translation into English done by Ronald Schaefer and Allan Gould of a document relating to the proposed extension of the AT into Canada.

Week of February 4
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• Linked to Ron and Linda Moak's log of their 1977 thru-hike.
• Linked to recipes, backcountry tips, and advice for choosing gear on the Advice to Hikers Page.
• Linked to a page about the Schuylkill Valley in Pennsylvania.
• Linked to Marshall DeBerry's new page on thoughts about lightning and hiking.
• An article from the magazine "Alabama Conservation" about the proposed extension of the AT into Alabama.

Week of January 28
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• Added a link to the Old Dominion A.T. Club on the clubs page.
• Added a link to the Bear Den on the Other Links page.
• Linked to Kutztown University in PA.
• Found a large Smoky Mountains bibliography.

Week of January 14
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• Added links to the West Virginia Natural Heritage Program and the Maine Natural Areas Program in the State by State area of the page.

Week of January 7
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• Put up some info about the extension of the A.T. into Canada. Some is in English. Most is in French.
• Two chapters of the book _Walking_the_AT_ by Larry Luxenburg are online.

1995

Week of December 31
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• Linked to a PCT trip report by Tom Griffin in the Other National Scenic Trails area.
• Added a link to a The Smokies Revisited: A Preface for the '90's new preface of the 1960's book, "Strangers in High Places." The author revisited the Smokies area to interview some of the same people he had spoken with 30 years previously. In addition, he talked to Bill Irwin, the blind hiker of the A.T.

Week of December 24
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• Rodger Ling's accounts of hikes in Georgia and North Carolina
• Terry Hamrick's account of his Georgia hike.
• Made a link to the new Florida Trail Page in the page on other National Scenic Trails.

Week of December 10
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• The Nantahala Hiking Club in North Carolina has just put up a page.

Week of December 3
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• Found a nice site: Manitoga, a preserve about 50 miles north of New York City in the Hudson Valley.
• An article about a hike on the A.T. from "Mushing Magazine."
• Linked to the Mountain Club of Maryland.
• Linked to the Katy Trail (Missouri) in the otherlinks area.
• Linked to a new page for Western North Carolina in the North Carolina area.

Week of November 19
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• Created a link to Query DejaNews about the A.T. (This shows recent Usenet articles in which the A.T. was mentioned.)
• Added substantially more text to the C and O Page as well as found links to some maps for the Canal. (See page for map links.)
• Linked to Mt. Washington Valley Travellers' Info.

Week of October 22
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• Linked to Ed Clayton's Konnarock Pictures in the Virginia area.
• Made a page of Links to Other Sites.
• Linked to Marshall DeBerry's Pictures from Springer. (These used to be available, but the server they were on crashed and they haven't been available for some time.)
• Added a link to the Blue Ridge Parkway.

Week of October 8
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• Added an article about Thurston Griggs, who is a ridge runner in Maryland. It came from a Boonsboro, MD, newspaper called The View.

Week of October 1
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• L.L. Bean has just gone online and includes a nice Park Search area. It is linked to in the Maine area.
• Added a link to the Berkshire Web in the Massachusetts area.

Week of September 3
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• Added link to the Green Mountain Club - CT Chapter in the Clubs area.
• Added a link to Ernie Patterson's Page under North Carolina in the State by State area.

• Created a Guestbook.
• Linked the State-by-State Information to a clickable map.
• Completed the addition of the MacKaye article.

• The first portion of the 1921 article by Benton Mackaye. Julius Ariail suggested that it would be nice to see the article on the page.

• Here is a newly created table of mileages and high points by state. (You'll need a table-capable browser such as Netscape 1.1 to see it correctly.)
• Linked to some Pennsylvania pictures taken by Charles Davidson.

Week of July 30
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• Linked to Harpers Ferry National Historical Park.
• Linked to two hike reports in the state-by-state section, one under North Carolina and one under Pennsylvania.
• Linked to a picture of Harpers Ferry.
• Linked to some White Mountains pictures under New Hampshire.

• Added some hikers to write-a-hiker page.
• Linked to a copy of Gerry Gladu's postcards as I've had trouble connecting to Judy's site lately.

• Finally added a "What's New?" page. This is it!
• Removed old info about Virginia '95 and put up some info about Maine '97
• Added email from Joe Bush about his and Sandy's 1975 thru-hike.
• Put in info about the Kennebec River ferry under Maine.
• Found a site for a daily changing picture of Tuckerman's Ravine and added it under New Hampshire.
• Removed posts from late June about floods in Virginia though they are still available on this page.
• Added some info about audio cassettes on the cassettes page.
• Added link to newly established archive of the A.T. mailing list which Ryan Brooks established.
• Linked to a picture of the A.T. where it crosses the Potomac River (in text for state of Maryland.)

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