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The Potomac Appalachian Trail Club (PATC) is a volunteer organization that works to maintain hiking trails in the Washington, D.C. area of the United States. PATC was founded in 1927 to protect and develop the local section of the then new Appalachian Trail.
The trail is managed by the National Park Service and is one of three National Trails that are official NPS units. [2] Unlike many long-distance hiking trails such as the Appalachian Trail, the Potomac Heritage Trail is an informal route with numerous side trails and alternatives, some in parallel on each side of the river. Currently, many of ...
Connects the Appalachian Trail to the southernmost mountain of the Appalachian Mountain chain that is over 1,000 feet (300 m) in elevation. Potomac Heritage Trail: 710 1,143 District of Columbia, Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania: Incomplete; trail network within Potomac River basin. Quehanna Trail: 73.2 118 Pennsylvania
Panoramic view of the Potomac River taken from Weverton Cliffs looking west/southwest. Edward B. Garvey (November 13, 1914 [1] in Farmington, Minnesota [2] – September 20, 1999, at Arlington Hospital in Virginia [3] of congestive heart failure) [4] thru-hiked the Appalachian Trail in 1970 and in 1971 published a book about his adventure, Appalachian Hiker, that raised awareness of thru-hiking.
From the Potomac River near Knoxville, Maryland in the south to Dillsburg, Pennsylvania in York County, Pennsylvania in the north, the 70-mile-long (110 km) range separates the Hagerstown and Cumberland valleys from the Piedmont regions of the two states. The Appalachian Trail follows the crest of the mountain through Maryland and a portion of ...
He was president of the Potomac Appalachian Trail Club from 1927 to 1941 and chairman of the Appalachian Trail Conference from 1931 to his death in 1952. The first 2000 Miler of the Appalachian Trail , he was also an alumnus of Bowdoin College and Harvard Law School .
The Appalachian Trail, also called the A.T., is a hiking trail in the Eastern United States, extending almost 2,200 miles (3,540 km) between Springer Mountain in Georgia and Mount Katahdin in Maine, and passing through 14 states. [2]
Paul Bradt mid-climb. Paul Jay Bradt (1904–1978) has been called the father of rock climbing in the Washington, D.C., area. [1] He was instrumental in developing interest in the sport, was a founding member and first chair of the rock climbing branch of the Potomac Appalachian Trail Club, and pioneered historic climbs and cave explorations in the 1930s and 1940s.