A Talk in the Woods: Voices Along the Appalachian Trail

Cary Segall worked on the sports desk of the Wisconsin State Journal while attending the University of Wisconsin in Madison and took his first backpacking trip on the Appalachian Trail with the UW Hoofers Outing Club. He graduated with a bachelor's degree in wildlife ecology and spent three years as a ranger-naturalist in the National Park Service. Cary returned to the UW for a law degree and became a public-interest environmental lawyer. He returned again to the UW for a master's degree in journalism and spent fourteen years as a reporter and seven years as a copy editor at the State Journal.

Warren Doyle hiked the entire Appalachian Trail a record 18 times, founded the Appalachian Long Distance Hikers Association and was inducted into the Appalachian Trail Hall of Fame. He's been featured in Outside, Backpacker, and Sports Illustrated magazines. Warren leads long-distance hikes on the AT and teaches people how to thru-hike the trail during five-day coursed at his Appalachian Trail Institute, which he runs out of the Appalachian Folk School at his home, 12 miles south of Damascus, Virginia, in northeastern Tennessee.