{"id":166053,"date":"2021-01-29T00:01:53","date_gmt":"2021-01-28T21:01:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/appalachian-trail-thru-hikers-wont-be-recognized-this-year\/"},"modified":"2021-01-29T00:01:53","modified_gmt":"2021-01-28T21:01:53","slug":"appalachian-trail-thru-hikers-wont-be-recognized-this-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/appalachian-trail-thru-hikers-wont-be-recognized-this-year\/","title":{"rendered":"#Appalachian Trail thru-hikers won’t be recognized this year"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#App<\/a>alachian Trail thru-hikers won’t be recognized this year<\/strong>”
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If you\u2019re thinking about thru-hiking the Appalachian Trail this year, you might want to think again.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The Appalachian Trail Conservancy (ATC) is discouraging people from attempting to hike the entire 2,190-mile\u00a0trail\u00a0\u2014 called\u00a0thru-hiking\u00a0\u2014 and has said it will not recognize attempted thru-hikes until the\u00a0coronavirus\u00a0pandemic is \u201cunder control.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

The group \u2014 which manages the multi-state trail \u2014 also said it will not distribute hangtags, the plastic tags given to aspiring thru-hikers to promote sustainable hiking practices and celebrate their attempt.<\/p>\n

\u201cDue to the pandemic and the risk that interstate travel<\/a>\u00a0could spread COVID-19 (including the emerging variants that could be even more contagious), the ATC has been advising hikers to postpone their hikes until the CDC has deemed the pandemic \u2018under control\u2019 or a COVID-19 vaccine or effective treatment is widely available and distributed,\u201d the\u00a0ATC said on its website<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cWe do not feel it is appropriate to provide what could be perceived as a reward for long-distance hiking, which we are actively discouraging until one of the above conditions is met,\u201d the group added.<\/p>\n

The group said it hasn\u2019t distributed hangtags since March 2020 because of the pandemic.<\/p>\n

Those who want to be considered thru-hikers have to complete the entire 2,190 miles of the Appalachian Trail in one trip within 12 months \u2014 though it typically takes between five and seven months, the ATC\u00a0website\u00a0says.<\/a><\/p>\n

Despite the group\u2019s discouragement of thru-hiking this year, Morgan Sommerville, an ATC regional director, told the\u00a0Asheville Citizen-Times<\/a>\u00a0that 2,000 thru-hikers have already registered to attempt the journey.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re concerned about the safety of AT volunteers, AT hikers, of the members of AT communities and of course ATC staff and staff of our federal partners,\u201d Sommerville told the news<\/a>paper.<\/p>\n

On its website, the ATC did say that if the coronavirus is deemed \u201cunder control\u201d by the CDC later this year, it could change its policy regarding hangtags and thru-hiker recognition.<\/p>\n

\u201cAlthough we don\u2019t know when the pandemic will be declared \u2018under control\u2019 and we can resume distribution of A.T. hangtags and 2000 miler recognition, we hope for all concerned it will be soon,\u201d the group said on its website.<\/p><\/div>\n

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“#Appalachian Trail thru-hikers won’t be recognized this year” If you\u2019re thinking about thru-hiking the Appalachian Trail this year, you might want to think again.\u00a0 The Appalachian Trail Conservancy (ATC) is discouraging people from attempting to hike the entire 2,190-mile\u00a0trail\u00a0\u2014 called\u00a0thru-hiking\u00a0\u2014 and has said it will not recognize attempted thru-hikes until the\u00a0coronavirus\u00a0pandemic is \u201cunder control.\u201d\u00a0 The…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":166054,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/01\/Appalachian-Trail-01.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=1200","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[70897],"tags":[91141,91340,1545,75549],"class_list":["post-166053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-1-28-21","tag-appalachian-trail","tag-coronavirus","tag-hiking"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166053","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=166053"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166053\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/166054"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}