At a recent Bryan Kiwanis Club meeting the members welcomed Katie Crites, a 24 year-old Defiance High School graduate, back ...

Emma “Grandma” Gatewood, at the age of 67, was the first woman to hike the full length of the Appalachian Trail from Georgia to Maine in 1955. She became the first person to hike the full length of ...

In 1955, 67-year old Emma "Grandma" Gatewood became the first woman solo thru-hiker on the Appalachian Trail. She would go on ...

ANDOVER - The Appalachian Trail (A.T.), a 2,197.4-mile hiking-only trail, stretching from Springer Mountain in Georgia to ...

My answer was that I wanted to thru-hike the Appalachian Trail. Back then ... One of our hiking heroes is Emma Rowena Gatewood, known as Grandma Gatewood, who became the first solo female thru-hiker ...

Last week we learned about Emma (Grandma) Gatewood’s long road to the start of the Appalachian Trail (AT) in Georgia. We learned of her hard knocks life in Gallia County, Ohio and a false start ...

In 1955, Emma Gatewood told her grown children that ... the entire 2,100 miles of the Appalachian Trail from Georgia to Maine! She was a totally unlikely candidate to accomplish such a tremendous ...

(upbeat music) - There's a first for everything and this determined grandma made history by being the first woman to hike the entire Appalachian Trail. Her name is Emma Gatewood, but is most ...

“Grandma Gatewood” for example. The other day Kerry Nelson ... one day Emma was completely captivated while reading a National Geographic magazine article about the Appalachian Trail. So captivated, ...