Download or read book Walking with Spring written by Earl Shaffer and published by Appalachian Trail Conference. This book was released on 1996-06 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1948, the Appalachian Trail had been a continuous, 2,000-mile foot-path for 11 years, but no one had walked its length alone in a continuous journey -- until Earl Shaffer, a quiet Pennsylvanian, became the first of what is now more than 5,600 A.T. "thru-hikers" and a hiking legend, walking from Georgia to Maine as spring arrived to each area. In 1998, he hiked again as a 50th-anniversary celebration, to far greater publicity.