Damascus Trail Days * Lena: Taken by Adventures

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Damascus Trail Days

Woohoo, Damascus Trail Days! It was something like … I have nothing to compare with. Hiking Woodstock? Hiking Burning Man? Time will tell.

Warren Doyle fetched me from the trail 100 miles ahead of Damascus, I stayed again at his Appalachian Folk School and enjoyed the Trail Days and myself for the whole three days. Workshops, gear talks, trail magic and trail angels in one place in one time, hikers I knew from the very beginning. Learned what is contra-dance and bluegrass music.

Then Warren Doyle drove me back to the trail, 100 miles ahead, the same place.

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Lena Faber

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Appalachian Trail, USA

Lena Faber

From journalism and car racing in Russia to teaching at the University in South Africa, where she won Alliance de France and the British Consulate international photo contests, she switched paths: earned a silver medal at the 2011 World Masters Athletics USA, hiked the 2,081-mile Appalachian Trail, navigated the Amazon from Peru to Brazil, biked Route 66 from Chicago to LA, from London to Orkney, and from Canada to Key West, and launched an art project at Midcoast Maine. During lockdown drove to Olympic Valley Palisades Tahoe where became a ski and swim instructor, then… well, enough for now.