For Russell native Derek Childs, today will be a day of hard goodbyes as he and his parents, Larry and Christina Childs, ...

An Iowa veteran is on a six-month mission to hike what many have attempted but only the toughest have completed. Joedy ...

In this 1981 narrative from the Backpacker archives, Jeffrey Cogswell relates the story of a family hike up the Appalachian ...

The first group of hikers took the first step across the new bride quickly. Fifty thousand hikers travel to McAfee Knob ...

Joedy VanVelzen is hiking the Appalachian Trail: an expedition that extends nearly 2200 miles between Georgia and Maine, and ...

Some people dream of taking months away from their jobs to hike the Appalachian Trail. For local photographer Carly Rae ...