"The Register" Blog

Trail Safe! offers practical lessons in field leadership for A.T. volunteers, and the start of 2020 begins with competition! Will you be among the first to complete the challenge?

A.T. Clubs undertook a number of superior accomplishments in 2019; here’s a look at significant achievements by a few A.T. clubs in 2019.

Appalachian Trail maintaining clubs are engines of civic engagement along the eastern seaboard. Their work doesn’t begin and end with digging in the dirt; it extends to project planning and the ever-essential aspects of volunteer coordination, which involves sociology and human resource management.

Sometimes a simple thank you does not seem like enough. Understanding volunteers' motivations, genuine words of appreciation, and small tangible tokens of appreciation can make big differences.

Communities are a part of the Trail experience.

Should there be a trailwide regulation for food storage? If so, what should it be?

Sweeping views & iconic vistas. They make the A.T., but are we poised to protect them?

The Interagency Visitor Use Management Council releases new guidebook in monitoring and visitor capacity help to find the balance between visitor use and resource protection.

For the first year ever, ATC offers a shorter version of its flagship Konnarock Trail Crew. Here's a snapshot of the experience from a participant.