Earl Shaffer, of York, finished his thru-hike of the Appalachian Trail in August 1948.
GARDNERS, Pa. — When Earl Shaffer scrambled to the summit of Maine’s Mount. Katahdin on an August afternoon in 1948, the York County native was an anomaly, someone who took the leisurely hobby of hiking to the extreme.
“Not many will want to duplicate Shaffer’s feat. Not many should try,” a newspaper wrote about Shaffer in 1949. “Before Earl’s hike, thru-hiking was met with skepticism and seen as something maybe impure for a hiker to care about walking the whole trail,” said Silas Chamberlain, author ofChamberlain, along with many of the late Shaffer’s relatives, gathered in Cumberland County’s Pine Grove Furnace State Park on Saturday morning to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the accomplishment.
“They were gonna do it together after the war. They talked about it a lot, but Walter was killed and Earl had a real problem with that,” Capron said., said he was “confused and depressed” after returning from the Pacific. This was decades before post-traumatic stress disorder was a recognized medial diagnosis. So, to fulfill the dream he and Winemiller shared, he decided to “walk off the war.
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