38 years after her solo hike, ‘trail angel’ helps at end of Pacific Crest Trail

38 years after her solo hike, ‘trail angel’ helps at end of Pacific Crest Trail

Posted by on Oct 17, 2014 @ 6:19 am in Hiking News | 0 comments | Last modified: October 2, 2014

There were no cellphones when Carolyn “Ravensong” Burkhart, at age 21, hiked the 2,650-mile Pacific Crest Trail alone in 1976. She wore heavy mountaineering boots, carried a 50-pound pack and went for days at a time without seeing another human being. It took her six months, and when she finished on Sept. 30, 1976, she was one of 12 hikers who had signed the register...

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