Features, profiles
and other stories

Curl up by the fireplace with this collection of newspaper and magazine articles that highlight the people, places and lore of long-distance hiking. If you know of an article from your hometown paper or from a magazine that you'd like to share with a wider audience, send us an e-mail with the publication, date and author’s name, and we’ll see about getting a copy posted here.

Bill Bryson talks about being Bill Bryson
By Lisa O’Donnell, The Winston-Salem, N.C., Journal

Women at home in wilderness By Carlos Alcala, Sacramento Bee	Rainier’s foreboding north face By Skip Card, Tacoma News Tribune
Don West: Longtime radical By Sheryl James, St. Petersburg Times	Self-discovery in the Smokies By Lisa Kestler, Fort Worth Star-Telegram
Gaining respect for Mt. Washington By Skip Sheffield, Daytona News	Walking into time on the Long Trail By Sally Pollak, The Burlington Free Press
The world’s at his footstep By Jerry Weil, The Vermont Standard	Escape to Isle Royale By Hugh McDiarmid Jr., The Detroit Free Press

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