‘A life-changing adventure’: Area native Kristen Dippold discusses trials and triumphs of hiking the Appalachian Trail

Wednesday, February 1, 2017

Kristen Dippold of Thebes, Illinois, first met a through-hiker while on a trail near her college in Georgia. He was a stranger, obviously, but there was something else about him she didn't recognize.

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