Happy 70th Birthday, AT
Seventy years ago today, on August 14, 1937, a six-man Civilian Conservation Corps crew completed the final link of the 2,025-mile Appalachian Trail: a 2-mile section in Maine on a ridge connecting Spaulding and Sugarloaf mountains, 186 miles south of Katahdin. Without fanfare the crew moved on to building shelters.
“Rather than a sense of exultation, this situation brings a fuller realization of our responsibilities,” said ATC chair Myron Avery of the event. “To say that the Trail is completed would be a complete misnomer. Those of us, who have physically worked on the Trail, know that the Trail, as such, will never be completed.”
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