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Showing 1 to 3 of 3 for “"Long-distance Hiking"”.
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Designing a wilderness : the legacy of Benton MacKaye and the Appalachian Trail.
… Benton MacKaye first published a plan for a long-distance hiking trail along the crest of the Appalachian Mountains in 1921. Ninety years later, MacKaye's greatest accomplishment is the Appalachian Trail, a footpath traversing over two-thousand miles through fourteen states. His plan …
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Socio-Technical Journeys: Utilizing Digital Narratives for Management and Community Support
… This dissertation includes three studies using long-distance hiking on the Appalachian Trail as a context of focus. The first study develops a systematized dataset from hikers' community blogs, capturing their lived experiences. The second study investigates hikers' use of blogs, the …
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Spatial Studies to Support the Management of Long Distance Trails
… of and physical and experiential conditions on long-distance hiking trails. The first study investigates a dataset from the Appalachian Trail (AT) to examine methods for using high resolution digital elevation models to measure terrain steepness near trails and along trails or potential trail …