The Adirondack Mountain Club will host a lecture by Tyler Socash titled Lessons from the Trail: A Transformation After One Year on the Pacific Crest Trail, Te Araroa, and the Appalachian Trail.

After 28 years of outdoor recreation inside the Adirondack Park, Socash went beyond the Blue Line to complete a 13-month trek across the Pacific Crest Trail, New Zealand's Te Araroa, and the heralded Appalachian Trail. It's a lively tale, nearly 7,000 miles in the making, of mountaintop euphoria, unexpected trail magic, encounters with long-distance legends, heartbreak and renewal. This grand adventure into the wilderness inspired Socash to help defend the wildest remaining places in New York's Forest Preserve, namely, the newly purchased Boreas Ponds Tract. If you've ever imagined completing a thru-hike someday, this is the meeting to attend! The intricacies of thru-hiking will be discussed, but be forewarned that the photographs and the entertaining retelling of the quest may spark your own wanderlust sooner than expected.

[source: Adirondack Mountain Club website, 2017-Oct-2]