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Throwing a Party for Trail Magic on the Appalachian Trail

Damascus, Va. (pop. 981) may be a tiny town, but Trail Magic will be celebrated there in a big way this weekend. Up to 1,500 Appalachian Trail thru-hikers and as many as 30,000 outdoors devotees are expected to gather in Damascus starting Friday to celebrate the 25th anniversary of Trail Days, a grassroots hiker hootenanny that for one weekend each May transforms this small patch of southwest Virginia into a sprawling harmonic convergence of hikers, helpers and random fresh-air lovers. "It's ...

Posted by T.D. Wood on May 16, 2011 5:22 PM & Tagged AT, Allyn Morton, Damascus, Hiking, REI Asheville, REI Pineville, Trail Days and appalachian trail | permalink | Comments