How we came to part ways on the Appalachian Trail
We set out to hike together. But sometimes, parenthood is about letting your kid forge ahead.By Rusty Foster
October 25, 2024 at 6:45 a.m. EDT
Rusty Foster is partway through a planned six-month hike of the Appalachian Trail from his home state of Maine south to Georgia with his 19-year-old son, Mica. This is the sixth in a series adapted from the newsletter he is filing from the wilderness, Today on Trail.
“Life is made up of meetings and partings. That is the way of it.” That line always wrecks me when Kermit says it in “The Muppet Christmas Carol,” and it was the thought that finally broke my fragile composure when Mica and I sat on a rock overlooking Great Barrington, Massachusetts, a few weeks ago, and he told me we’d be parting ways in October. We both had some big feelings in the woods. But that’s what the woods are for. And, ultimately, this wasn’t bad news.
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