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Stuart O. Smith, Jr. - sosAssociates.com @sosjr.bsky.social · 18h

Day One: Opening ceremony of the 43rd Annual ALDHA (Appalachian Long Distance Hikers Association) Gathering, honored the 2025 Class of #AppalachianTrail Thru #Hikers and Gene Espy.
aldha.org/the-gathering/

Learn about Gene Espy on the @atmuseum.bsky.social website: www.atmuseum.org/news/gene-es...

Banner about Appalachian Long Distance Hikers Association being foe Distance Hikers - Section Hikers
Day Hikers - Dreamers!

aldha.org/the-gathering/

Photo of the Class of 2025 Appalachian Trail thru hikers.

“I Hiked ALDHA Way”

Gene Espy dedication.

Eugene Espy, known by everyone as Gene, passed away at age 98 recently. Gene was the second person to thru-hike the A.T., in 1951. In 2011, Gene was the only living member of the Charter Class of the Appalachian Trail Hall of Fame.

https://www.atmuseum.org/news/gene-espy-1927-2025

Information about the Earl Shaffer Foundation.

He was the first person to backpack the Appalachian Trail

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Stuart O. Smith, Jr. - sosAssociates.com @sosjr.bsky.social · 5h

Tent city 🏕️

Day Two of the 43rd Annual ALDHA Gathering in Abingdon, VA at the Southwest #Virginia Higher Education Center

aldha.org/the-gathering/

Tents set up at the 43rd Annual ALDHA Gathering

Stuart O. Smith, Jr. - sosAssociates.com @sosjr.bsky.social · 7h

Day Two: ALDHA.org Gathering

I attend “A Hiker’s #History of the #AppalachianTrail”
workshop presented by Mills Kelly.

He has a new book:

“Appalachian Trail History”

millskelly.net

Mills Kelly new book:

“Appalachian Trail History”

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Stuart O. Smith, Jr. - sosAssociates.com @sosjr.bsky.social · 8h

Day Two: ALDHA.org Gathering

I attend “A Hiker’s #History of the #AppalachianTrail”
workshop.

The presenter recommends go to the @atmuseum.bsky.social to see Myron Avery’s wheel used to measure trail length

www.atmuseum.org/at-history-b...

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myron_A...

2011 Charter Class

Myron Avery He, along with five colleagues, founded the Potomac Appalachian Trail Club (PATC) in 1927. He was elected president of PATC, and remained in that position until 1941. In 1930 he...

www.atmuseum.org

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Stuart O. Smith, Jr. - sosAssociates.com @sosjr.bsky.social · 18h

I learned about this Appalachian Trail history website at ALDHA.org 2025 Gathering Opening Ceremony:

👉 appalachiantrailhistory.org
This website offers a series of historical exhibits created by undergraduate students at George Mason University, on the many histories of the #AppalachianTrail

HOME

COME TO THE GATHERING IN OCTOBER - See the Schedule / Register MISSION To provide a recreational association for persons interested in long distance hiking by providing fellowship and education in lon...

ALDHA.org

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Stuart O. Smith, Jr. - sosAssociates.com @sosjr.bsky.social · 8h

Day Two: ALDHA.org Gathering:

I just learned the Benton MacKaye Trail Association is working to become a National Scenic Trail
bmta.org/quest-nst/

I let the volunteer leading the workshop know that #BuckeyeTrail Association is also working to become a National Scenic Trail
www.buckeyetrail.org

ParkPlanning - Buckeye National Scenic Trail Feasibility Study

parkplanning.nps.gov

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Stuart O. Smith, Jr. - sosAssociates.com @sosjr.bsky.social · 17h

If you are interested, please see my backpacking blog post here:

sosassociates.com/blog-tags/ba...

Screenshot for my sosAssociates.com website for the “Backpacking” blog posts tag.

https://sosassociates.com/blog-tags/backpacking

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Stuart O. Smith, Jr. - sosAssociates.com @sosjr.bsky.social · 19h

Day One: 43rd Annual ALDHA (Appalachian Long Distance Hikers Association) Gathering

Great start to this special weekend for Distance #Hikers - Section Hikers
Day Hikers - Dreamers!

aldha.org/the-gathering/

Gathering

The 43rd Annual ALDHA Gathering will be held in Abingdon, VA at the Southwest Virginia Higher Education Center from October 10th to 13th. We will also have our usual trail maintenance trip on Monday t...

aldha.org

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Indivisible Central Ohio @indivcentraloh.bsky.social · 19h

We were gearing up for #NoKings on the I71 footbridge this week.

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Paula Kampf @paulakampf.bsky.social · 18h

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Indivisible Central Ohio @indivcentraloh.bsky.social · 18h

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Indivisible Central Ohio @indivcentraloh.bsky.social · 17h

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Brandy Schillace @bschillace.brandyschillace.com · 1d

And here is a piece I wrote on #lyme disease—I have quite a lot of essays on Medium, and need to get back in the habit of providing y’all with weird #science.

brandy-schillace.medium.com/once-bitten-...

Once Bitten: the Silent epidemic of Long Lyme Disease

What if one of the worst epidemics of chronic illness was also it’s most ignored? What if that wasn’t entirely an accident?

brandy-schillace.medium.com

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Free Łink - Matthew R Francis @bowlerhatscience.org · 1d

or even a more reliable Bluetooth, is that too much to ask

Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 1d

Dear techbros frantically nutting at each other over your own god-like brilliance for making the Five-Boobed-Lady-Picture-Machine: I would at this point settle for you applying your alleged technical genius to making a printer that works

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TraceyE @chem-mom-of-4.bsky.social · 22h

Mike Johnson just called No Kings protesters terrorists. I kind of feel tough right now. If I’m a terrorist, why do I have to go pick up my dog’s poop in the yard right now?

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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 2d

Not only this is amazing because part of fascism is the destruction of joy but it also makes it look ridiculous that the military is being deployed to put a stop to this

Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 2d

War is hell, Portland style

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Stuart O. Smith, Jr. - sosAssociates.com @sosjr.bsky.social · 17h

If you are interested, please see my backpacking blog post here:

sosassociates.com/blog-tags/ba...

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Stuart O. Smith, Jr. - sosAssociates.com @sosjr.bsky.social · 18h

I learned about this Appalachian Trail history website at ALDHA.org 2025 Gathering Opening Ceremony:

👉 appalachiantrailhistory.org
This website offers a series of historical exhibits created by undergraduate students at George Mason University, on the many histories of the #AppalachianTrail

HOME

COME TO THE GATHERING IN OCTOBER - See the Schedule / Register MISSION To provide a recreational association for persons interested in long distance hiking by providing fellowship and education in lon...

ALDHA.org

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Stuart O. Smith, Jr. - sosAssociates.com @sosjr.bsky.social · 18h

Day One: Opening ceremony of the 43rd Annual ALDHA (Appalachian Long Distance Hikers Association) Gathering, honored the 2025 Class of #AppalachianTrail Thru #Hikers and Gene Espy.
aldha.org/the-gathering/

Learn about Gene Espy on the @atmuseum.bsky.social website: www.atmuseum.org/news/gene-es...

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Stuart O. Smith, Jr. - sosAssociates.com @sosjr.bsky.social · 19h

Day One: 43rd Annual ALDHA (Appalachian Long Distance Hikers Association) Gathering

Great start to this special weekend for Distance #Hikers - Section Hikers
Day Hikers - Dreamers!

aldha.org/the-gathering/

Gathering

The 43rd Annual ALDHA Gathering will be held in Abingdon, VA at the Southwest Virginia Higher Education Center from October 10th to 13th. We will also have our usual trail maintenance trip on Monday t...

aldha.org

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Stuart O. Smith, Jr. - sosAssociates.com @sosjr.bsky.social · 2d

Indivisible NEO RAPID RESPONSE - Representative Max Miller Protest

Thursday, 10/9/25
Hofbräuhaus
1550 Chester Ave, #Cleveland, #Ohio

www.mobilize.us/indivisiblen...

See @indivisibleneo.bsky.social events at: linktr.ee/indivisible....

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Stuart O. Smith, Jr. - sosAssociates.com @sosjr.bsky.social · 2d

Indivisible NEO RAPID RESPONSE - Representative Max Miller Protest

Thursday, 10/9/25
Hofbräuhaus
1550 Chester Ave, #Cleveland, #Ohio

www.mobilize.us/indivisiblen...

See @indivisibleneo.bsky.social events at: linktr.ee/indivisible....