Last week I posted a picture of the ’75 AT Expedition celebrating our “finish,” though we had to come back two weeks later to actually climb Katahdin. Here is a picture, taken just a short time before the other one, that shows our dejection upon first hearing we could not climb.
I’ve been digitizing old color slides. This is one of the oldest, a group shot of the first expedition on the Appalachian Trail in 1975, taken near the end at Katahdin Stream campground. The mountain actually was closed off that day and the group had to return two weeks later to finish our 2000 mile hike. I’m the one kneeling, wearing a cap. Our leader, Warren Doyle, is wearing the Georgia to Maine shirt.
Thumbs Up from AT Thru-Hikers