Trevor Murrah ’16 knew the odds were stacked against him. And self-doubt was bound to creep in somewhere along the way to 2,194 miles. But like a true Greenie, he stayed headstrong.
Trevor finished a full thru-hike of the Appalachian Trail on Sunday.
Seven months on the trail were an undertaking to be sure. Trevor was burning calories at such a furious rate that he lost 75 pounds and went through six pairs of hiking boots. Along with traditional means of communication, family and friends followed his progress through social media.
“At the end of the day, I completed a lifelong dream. And I did it my way,” Trevor said in Sunday’s Instagram post.
The Appalachian Trail Conservancy estimates there are more than 3,000 attempts per year to hike the trail in its entirety. Of that number, only about 25 percent of attempts are successful. The Appalachian Trail extends from Springer Mountain, Ga. – where Trevor started hiking in March – to Mount Katahdin in Maine.
Trevor did a flip-flop thru-hike. In this case, it means he skipped a small portion of the trail in the New England region, and then went back and completed it later. Therefore, his end point turned out to be the Mount Washington Summit in New Hampshire.
