The club will sponsor the first-ever single-day AT Hike by a college or trail maintainer club. The trail will be divided up into sections, which will be hiked by individual parties along the length of the trail and alumni and students throughout the eastern seaboard. Some parties will be in the middle of 4-5 day backpacks on the day, but this is a great way to get people outside, and to get people involved who can’t travel to Dartmouth. Each party will have a banner to photograph so that a digital photo essay can be created. No outing club has ever hiked the entire AT in a day!

Starting April 10th, 2009, a web application for AT in a Day will become available, linked from the DOC centennial website. This web application will show a full AT map, with various markers on the trail. Hikers can sign-up for a section, get information on that part of trail, leave contact information and write comments. We will be contacting alumni groups along the AT to claim, divide and hike a large section of trail in their area. If you’d like to be the representative for you local Alumni group, please email atinaday@dartmouth.edu. Please note that many students will be on campus next fall and are able to hike much of the 75 miles of trail that the DOC maintains.

For the very experienced hikers, we have a project for you. The 100 mile wilderness in Maine doesn’t have road access, so we will need hikers to hike several days in order to hike that section. If you are interested in an extended trip, or are an intrepid ultrarunner, please email atinaday@dartmouth.edu.

For those unable to hike, we can still use your help! Volunteers will be needed to shuttle hikers from their destination back to their vehicles. You can also help by offering to host hikers from out of town. We are looking for someone to create a photo album or similar documentation to commemorate the event. If you can help out, either make a comment on a section of trail, or email atinaday@dartmouth.edu.

We are still working out many of the details, and will post them on this website when finalize them.

Thank you, and spread the word!

Sincerely,
Becca Vogel ’11
DOC President

Max Friedman ’10
DOC Centennial Coordinator

Matthew Dahlhausen ’11, Emily Unger ’11, and Athena Aicher ’11
“AT in a Day” Coordinators