His amusing Slacker friend Katz, even more out of shape, accompanies him part of the way, carrying dozens of candy bars and grumbling about missing The X-Files on TV. Overpacked and underprepared, Bryson sets off from the southern end one cold March morning. The Appalachian Trail (AT) extends over 2,150 miles, from Georgia to Maine, over a number of mountain ranges, forests and rivers daunting to someone fit, much less “after years of waddlesome sloth.” After broadcasting his intentions, he realizes he may be in over his head and that’s before he reads a book titled Bear Attacks and buys tons of camping equipment at the shop where his teenaged son works. After moving to New Hampshire, Bill Bryson discovers part of the Appalachian Trail nearby and decides that walking the entire thing would be fun.
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