The Progression of
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Pre-hike California Nevada Utah Colorado Kansas
Oklahoma Arkansas Missouri Illinois Kentucky Virginia
West Virginia Maryland D.C. Maryland Delaware Afterwards


HikaNation was a 14-month cross-country backpacking trip starting at Golden Gate Park in San Francisco, California on April 12, 1980, and ending at Cape Henlopen, Delaware on May 27, 1981 after traversing over 4,286 miles and passing through 14 states and Washington, D.C.

Purposes for the hike included highlighting the need for more hiking trails across America and promoting hiking as a low energy consumption form of recreation.


The HikaNation Story
by Jim Kern

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HikaNation   was   organized   by
Jim Kern, William Kemsley, Jr., Paul Pritchard, Glenn Seaborg, and others, and was sponsored by the American Hiking Society, the United States Department of the Interior Heritage Conservation and Recreation Service, and Postum, along with various other suppliers & supporters, including Backpacker  magazine.

The Progression of HikaNation details the journey with various organizational memos, letters, newspaper and magazine articles.

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HikaNation Virginia No.3
Illinois into Kentucky newsletter update
HikaNation in Kentucky news articles
February 1, 1981
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Hikers agree.....Crossing the U.S.
Greenville, Kentucky

February 6, 1981
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Two on 4,000-mile hike stop in Bowling Green
& A weed field, west of Dunbar, west of Bowling Green

February 8, 1981
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Brownsville, Kentucky Mayor signs The Scroll,
Hikers Pass Through County - Bitter Cold!,
One HikaNation family trails others

February 11, 1981
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Mammoth Cave National Park
February 14, 1981



HikaNation Virginia No. 4
Kentucky update - Reese Lukei, Jr.,
Hikers continue national trek - Al Schneider,
HikeaNation comes to Hart County

February 15, 1981
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Gosser Ridge
Hike-A-Marathon in Kentucky

February 20, 1981
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HikaNation Virginia
Special Notice to Virginia Planners
Kentucky Route into Virginia

February 20, 1981
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NPS: Appalachian Trail Project Office
Memorandums concerning
HikaNation traverse of Virginia

February 5 and 20, 1981
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The Shenandoah Project
"Let Us In"

HikaNation plans to traverse the A.T.
through the Shenandoah National Park
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Nationwide Hikers
Enthusiasts Pass Through Pulaski
En Route to Washington, D.C.

Somerset, Kentucky
February 22 - 23, 1981
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HikaNation A.T.-D.C. Survey
February 23, 1981
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American Hiker
HikaNation Report

Jeannie Harmon & Dave Backus
February 26, 1981
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Across-the-nation hikers reach area
Cumberland Falls State Park
80 start, 37 survive

February 28, 1981
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Experiencing America
35 Coast-to-Coast Hikers Trekking
Across Kentucky on Way to Atlantic

Cumberland Falls, Kentucky
February 28, 1981
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Across-America hikers rest up
here overnight to treat blisters
Middlesboro, Kentucky

March 5 - 6, 1981
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Tom Floyd for The American Hiking Society
HikaNation Arrival

March 1981
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Memorandum #14
March 1981
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HikaNation Virginia No. 5
Virginia Entry Update
& Letters to the Media

March 1, 1981
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The Progression of
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Pre-hike California Nevada Utah Colorado Kansas
Oklahoma Arkansas Missouri Illinois Kentucky Virginia
West Virginia Maryland D.C. Maryland Delaware Afterwards



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