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Article Excerpt
"Here's an exercise for you: Buy a soda pop. Pinch the straw. Then try to suck. That's how I feel when I try to breathe," Allen Tye wrote in a journal April 3, four days after he began hiking the Appalachian Trail (AT), a 2172.6-mile-long scenic mountaintop footpath that begins in Georgia and ends in northern Maine.
Tye, 42, a financial analyst who took a leave of absence from Jackson based Vector Money Management to hike the AT, began hiking March 31 and finished the trail on Halloween. He returned to Jackson November 5.
"I'm surprised I made it the whole way," admitted Tye. "It's intimidating when you've been walking for about three or four weeks and you look at a four-foot-long map of the entire trail and realize you haven't covered but an inch of it. You have to get really lucky, too, to complete it, avoiding injury and other things. But when I reached the stone pile on Mr. Katahdin (at the end of the AT), there was a tremendous mixture of satisfaction and relief."
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