Trail Magic-The Play Archives

Trail Magic Live #3, Hospitality of strangers along the trail

[vimeo 85454603 w=500 h=281] Trail Magic- The hospitality of strangers along the trail from Peter Huston on Vimeo. Emma Gatewood traveled light, was highly self sufficient, and made friends out of strangers were ever she was. This short story included in the live presentation is the essence of what “Trail Magic” is all about. Many…

Trail Magic Live #2 Emma, the “grandmother” of the Ultralight Movement

[vimeo 85454601 w=500 h=281] Emma Gatewood was probably the inventor or at least one of the earliest adopters of “Ultralight” back backing. Her life skills and years of commonsense applications, we would say now “adaptive technology” made her hikes possible with a minimum of gear. She thoughtfully preplanned the equipment, food and minimum support materials…

Elyrian raising funds to film a documentary about a woman who didn’t quit!

Steve Fogarty, Chronicle Telegram Online ELYRIA — When Grandma Emma Gatewood walked the entire 2,050 miles of the Appalachian Trail in 1955, she became the first woman to do so by herself. Emma Rowena Gatewood, better known as Grandma Gatewood, was the first woman to hike the Appalachian Trail. She did it in 1955…

“Trail Magic” in Pulse Magazine

Jeff Gallatin of PULSE magazine wrote a nice article about our TrueNorth “TRAIL MAGIC” program about Emma Gatewood. You can find it at: http://www.pulselorainmag.com/Main/Articles/142.aspx