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8,000-Mile Hiking Expedition with Brandon Weis
2025-07-13 14:00:00
2025-07-13 15:00:00
America/New_York
8,000-Mile Hiking Expedition with Brandon Weis
Join Brandon Weis as he details his extraordinary Calendar Year Triple Crown hiking experience, which entailed carrying a backpack weighing over 20 pounds for more than 8,000 miles.
Main Library - Meeting Room 2AB
Sunday, July 13
2:00pm - 3:00pm
Main Library
Meeting Room 2ABJoin Brandon Weis as he details his extraordinary Calendar Year Triple Crown hiking experience, which entailed carrying a backpack weighing over 20 pounds for more than 8,000 miles.
Have you ever thought about hiking across the country? How about doing it three times in one year?
Brandon Weis is one of the few people to complete the Calendar Year Triple Crown hike, which includes the Appalachian Trail, Pacific Crest Trail, Continental Divide Trail, and Arizona Trail. Over the course of a single year, he hiked from Georgia to Maine, from Mexico to Canada, from Canada to Mexico, and from Utah to Mexico. He endured the dead of winter at minus 20 degrees and summer temperatures reaching 111 degrees. Through frostbite, injury, sheer exhaustion, and more, he endured.
He is also the author or "This is Gonna Hurt: Thru-hiking the Appalachian Trail, Pacific Crest Trail, Continental Divide Trail and Arizona Trail in a Calendar Year."
Contact the Culture & AV Division with questions at 330.643.9015 or cadiv@akronlibrary.org
AGE GROUP: | Adults |
EVENT TYPE: | Travel | Nature & Outdoors | Education |
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