Hawkins County man completes Appalachian Trail
that full forecast breakdown. The start of your work week. Coming up in just a few minutes. Kings County man is back home after hiking the entire Appalachian Trail. Charles Grob finished finished the amazing feat on his 56th birthday. The trail is about 2200 miles long. Standing up and down the East Coast. He started his journey back in 2012. Now his family is having a celebration to honor his went into completing this tall challenge. His started set his goal of hiking the entire Appalachian Trail. Many thought, you know, it was a crazy idea. And everyone usually
when I left work would think I was just crazy for want to spend a week hiking in the woods I don’t want my family thought they Yeah, they all probably crazy. Do but I met all kinds of people on the trail that were pretty cool. Groves says he’s a section hiker. He would hike sections of the trail one week at a time. He’d have to plan ahead of weather would impact a part of the trail. He says he wishes he’d of hike the northern part of the trail in his 40’s rather than his 50’s. He
says he may have finished the trail even faster. I think if I was advising another section hiker, I would say move to the north faster. I think I could have finished the
