With today's national Take A Hike day I had to think back about my meeting with an #AppalachianTrail ridgerunner during my thruhike. It's great and sad at the same that they (have to) exist. Essentially a ridgerunner is paid to hike sections of the trail
Oftentimes, it takes us buckets of tears, sweat and (literally) blood before we achieve what we want in life. But so long as it means waking up the next day to a morning as majestic and picturesque as this, I would not mind fighting till I shed the last b