The Notch: What to expect in the A.T.’s “most difficult” mile

Several Minutes into The Notch, I slip.
My foot slides several inches down the moss slick rock before the tread of my shoe catches again, just enough to press the flesh of my leg against the sharp edge of an opposing boulder. My mind flashes back to a week earlier when I watched a fellow hiker slip off a similarly mossy rock, gashing his shin open on an equally sharp boulder. 19 stitches later he’s back on the trail, ...

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