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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

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3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
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The Longest Mile: Nine Days in the Great Smoky Mountains

The Longest Mile: Nine Days in the Great Smoky Mountains

Jones, Jeremy
Watkins, Ryan

Paperback

Hiking & ClimbingTravel General

ISBN10: 1533374058
ISBN13: 9781533374059
Publisher: Createspace
Published: Jul 21 2016
Pages: 158
Weight: 0.46
Height: 0.37 Width: 5.51 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
For nine days in early May, Ryan Watkins along with two brothers, Jeremy and Chris Jones, backpack the world-famous Appalachian Trail through the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. From his very first steps into the Smokies, Ryan quickly learns the seventy-mile stretch of trail is far more difficult than he ever imagined.The trio battles through torrential rains, lightning, snow, fatigue, multiple encounters with bears and a standoff with a timber rattlesnake as they march more than eighty miles from Standing Bear Farms, a small hostel north of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, to Fontana Dam on the park's southern tip.Along the way, the group meets a colorful cast of hikers while experiencing the most physically demanding and personally rewarding nine days of their lives.This story is a painfully honest, unadulterated and sometimes raunchy retelling of a hike that is definitely not suitable for readers of all ages.

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