In Beauty May She Walk : Hiking the Appalachian Trail At 60

by Mass, Leslie

• ISBN13: 9780976568605
• ISBN10: 0976568608
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-09-30
• Publisher: Rock Spring Pr Inc

Summary

Leslie struggles to balance her family's needs with her needs on the Appalachian Trail, and sheds years of social conditioning that dictate how a woman is expected to act.

Author Biography

Leslie Mass was born in Ipswich, Massachusetts but grew up in Stratford, Connecticut. She graduated from Gettysburg College in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, and received her Masters and Ph.D. in Early and Middle Childhood Education from Ohio State University. Leslie is actively involved with Wildside Adventures, a group that organizes and encourages women to go hiking. She co-leads a number of their backpacking trips.Leslie was a Peace Corps Volunteer in Sheikhupura, West Pakistan from 1962-64, where she developed a community outreach program for women and young girls in twenty villages. She wrote about her hiking experiences so she might inspire other women to act on their dreams, to give them permission to do something just for themselves.Leslie and her husband, George, live on several wooded acres between Columbus and Delaware, Ohio. They have two grown daughters, Amy and Megg, and one grandson. In Beauty May She Walk is her first book.

Table of Contents

Introduction	ix
Prologue	xi
1. Preparation	17	(14)
2. Getting Started	31	(28)
3. Finding My Trail Legs	59	(10)
4. Setting My Stride	69	(20)
5. One Foot in Two Communities	89	(26)
6. Hiking with Family	115	(16)
7. The Community of Hikers: Hiker Family	131	(20)
8. Whatever Happens, Happens	151	(12)
9. Going Gets Tough	163	(20)
10. The Whites	183	(20)
11. The Going Gets Tougher	203	(38)
12. The Tough Get Going – The Hundred-Mile Wilderness	241	(30)
Interim	271	(2)
13. On the Trail Again...and Off	273	(34)
14. Back in Ohio, Again	307	(4)
15. Spring: A New Beginning	311	(28)
16. My Own Hike – At Last	339	(24)
17. Great Smoky Mountains and Nantahala	363	(28)
18. Springer	391	(16)
Epilogue	407