From Mack White Gap, the Pinhoti Trail stretches southward, a ten-mile ridge walk through the crisp fall leaves of the Chattahoochee National Forest, before spilling down to Georgia State Route 100. Not quite a road walk, though close enough, the trail clings to the roadside, occasionally meandering out of sight. I’d been told that this […]
I was still coughing up thick green mucus, but compared to the wreck I’d been when I left the trail, it felt like a new lease on life. The road walk out of Chatsworth stretched for miles ahead, but I didn’t make it far before a car pulled over, unbidden. No thumb needed. The driver […]
There was a heaviness in me that went beyond exhaustion, a bone-deep weariness that no amount of rest could touch. I’d barely set foot on the Benton MacKaye Trail when I noticed the blister that wasn’t a blister. Squeezing the swollen lump on my foot, I watched in disbelief as a string of green and […]
