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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Appalachian Trail, USA

Lena Faber

Lena Faber used to work as a journalist at a mainstream Russian newspaper, wrote books for a major publishing house, and directed her original concept on TV. In 2009, she moved to South Africa, taught at the university, took up running, and earned a silver medal at the World Masters Athletic Championship in California and, in the meantime, won an international photo contest with following up solo exhibition. In 2014 she "shut the door" and gone hiking the Appalachian Trail, cycling from Chicago to LA (US Route 66), from Maine to Florida, from London to Orkney, etc. Now in MidCoast, Maine.