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The Longest Mile: Nine Days in the Great Smoky Mountains
The Longest Mile: Nine Days in the Great Smoky Mountains
The Longest Mile: Nine Days in the Great Smoky Mountains
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The Longest Mile: Nine Days in the Great Smoky Mountains

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For nine days in early May, Ryan Watkins along with two brothers, Jeremy and Chris Jones, backpack the world-famous Appalachian Trail through the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. From his very first steps into the Smokies, Ryan quickly learns the seventy-mile stretch of trail is far more difficult than he ever imagined. The trio battles through torrential rains, lightning, snow, fatigue, multiple encounters with bears and a standoff with a timber rattlesnake as they march more than eighty miles from Standing Bear Farms, a small hostel north of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, to Fontana Dam on the park’s southern tip. Along the way, the group meets a colorful cast of hikers while experiencing the most physically demanding and personally rewarding nine days of their lives. This story is a painfully honest, unadulterated and sometimes raunchy retelling of a hike that is definitely not suitable for readers of all ages.

LanguageEnglish
PublisherRyan Watkins
Release dateOct 18, 2017
ISBN9781370238859
The Longest Mile: Nine Days in the Great Smoky Mountains
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Ryan Watkins

Ryan Watkins was born in Athens, Georgia and is a former journalist for a variety of print and web publications. An avid outdoorsman, Ryan spends much of his free time hiking, exploring, writing and photographing the southeast's most famous waterfalls.

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