Climbing Mt Katahdin |
 About an hour after I left the summit, I caught up with Barbara Crawford, who had hiked the entire Appalachian Trail and who, to use the slang employed by trail walkers, was both a “flip-flopper” (i.e., she’d hiked the trail over two seasons and not in one go), and – pretty unusually – a north-to-south hiker (rather than a south-to-north, Georgia-to-Maine hiker). Having completed the Appalachian Trail, she decided to return to her start point and do the traditional end-of-trail hike to the summit of Mt Katahdin. I really enjoyed talking to her as we descended, and learning about her experiences on the Appalachian Trail. |