AP: Couple end backpacking adventure at Pacific

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Couple end backpacking adventure at Pacific

ASSOCIATED PRESS

October 16, 2005

POINT REYES – A husband-and-wife team from California yesterday reached the Pacific Ocean after a 4,900-mile cross-country hike, becoming the first to backpack the transcontinental American Discovery Trail in one continuous hike.

Marcia and Ken Powers of Pleasanton started the trek across 13 states on Feb. 27 from Cape Henlopen in Delaware. Nearly eight months later, they jubilantly waded into the Pacific Ocean at Point Reyes.

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They overcame deep snow in the East, a quicksand scare in Utah, close lightning strikes in the Midwest and blinding desert sandstorms in the West while averaging 22 miles a day and taking only four days off.

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The transcontinental trail starts in Delaware, meandering through Washington, D.C., Cincinnati, St. Louis and other cities and 14 national parks and 16 national forests before hitting the Pacific at Point Reyes.


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http://www.signonsandiego.com/uniontrib/20051016/news_1n16walk.html

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1. Envious

Kind of makes my backpacking stories pale in comparison.

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2. For one, you need to be able to take eight months off

not to be bothered by jobs and stuff. This is where I am envious.