Jim Kern
HikaNation Director
St. Augustine, Florida


Opening Ceremonies -- 4/12/1980
San Francisco, California
(photo by Rex Halfpenny)
Closing Ceremonies -- 5/13/1981
Washington, D.C.
(photo provided by Jim Kern)

Tim, Jim, Mike
somewhere in Virginia, along the A.T.
(photo by Tim Geoghegan)

(photo provided by Jim Kern)


Videos related to the origins of HikaNation:
April 2016 Interviews with Jim Kern by Paula Guerrein

Article scans from Jim

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James A. Kern

Founder, Florida Trail Association, 1966
Co-Founder, American Hiking Society, 1976
Director, HikaNation, 1980-81
Founding Publisher, American Hiker Magazine, 1988
Founder, Big City Mountaineers, 1989
President, Hiker's Grand Slam, 1998-2005
President, Kern Trekking & Travel, 1999-2005
Author, Trail Reflections, 50 Years of Hiking and Backpacking, 2011
Founder, Hiking Trails for America, 2013
Founder, Friends of the Florida Trail, 2014



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After being postponed in 2020 and 2021 due to the Covid-19 pandemic,
Jim Kern hosted the 42nd Anniversary HikaNation Reunion
in St. Augustine, Florida, March 25 - 27, 2022.


42nd Anniversary HikaNation Reunion