Walking with Spring by Earl V. Shaffer

https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/2/audible/2180 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Walking with Spring Author: Earl V. Shaffer Narrator: Danny Campbell Format: mp3 Length: 6 hrs and 6 mins Release date: 11-15-22 Ratings: 4.5 out of 5 stars, 26 ratings Genres: Adventurers, Explorers & Survival Publisher's Summary: In 1948, the Appalachian Trail had been a continuous, 2,000-mile footpath for eleven years, but no one had walked its length alone in a continuous journey—until Earl Shaffer, a quiet Pennsylvanian, became a hiking legend and the first of what is now more than 5,500 A.T. "thru-hikers," 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. This is the lyrical account of his fabled 1948 walk.