Here are two stories about couples falling in love while hiking.

A Towsend couple
A Maynardville Couple

Recharge Yourself!

More on Nature Deficit Disorder

There's even a book about it"

78 year old completes 900 miles in Smokies.

It's not to late for the rest of us. You, too, can qualify for the Geezer 900 T shirt.

Here's a story about a hiking and wilderness advocacy group, Great Old Broads for Wilderness, that I've never heard of, but might be of interest to you.

Here's their website.

No more nude hiking. Swiss say Germans have to wear clothes. Naked German bodies too much to bare.

Knoxville Sentinel Reports on Kick-off Ceremony for Great Smoky National Park 75th Anniversary

Hit by car, local hiker returns to mountains. Maybe you can, too

And for your 50th Birthday, you did what?

First Woman to Finish 900 Miles in Smokies 5 Times