Why are people given trail names? I know we talked about it as a tradition on the AT, but why is that? Is it because people are truly changed by the experience of the hiking, whether day-hiker, section hiker, or thru hiker. Does the trail change you and that why you get a trail name? I think that every person who takes time to encounter the trail is changed one form or another. Maybe it is because out there you different than who you are in your regular life. I am curious as to what a few AT hikers would have to say about that idea and about what their trail name means to them.
12/1/15
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