The lesson of the walking poles

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The lesson of the walking poles

Reading Time: 3 minutes eating.the.elephant@gmail.com For a brief spell in my twenties, I hiked parts of the Appalachian Trail, stretching 3500km along the United States’s east coast mountain spine. I was fortunate to spend a few months dawdling through the woods from Georgia to Virginia, and again from Vermont to Maine. A good adventure.  Throughout that first leg, I stood out from my fellow hikers: I visibly lacked a key bit of distance-hikin…