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Pilgrimage on the AT Trail

Term To Study: Summer 2025
Application Deadline: Dec 01, 2024
Program Category: One-Country
Program Type: Faculty-led
Program Fee: $500
Program Locations: Tennessee, Virginia
Contact Phone: (757) 594-7801
Contact Name: Dr. Kip Redick
Contact Email: kredick@cnu.edu
What is Included: Ground transportation
What is not Included: Tuition, meals, equipment
Documents: 
sample_at_itinerary.pdf
sample_at_syllabus.pdf
at_trail_summer_2025_payment_agr
eement.pdf
Program Description

Program Highlights:
-Hike through the Roan Highlands Virginia's two highest mountains
-Encounter wild ponies in the Grayson Highlands

This class will be an experiential exploration, hiking the Appalachian Trail, comparing and contrasting the experience of walking through the wilderness with traditional pilgrimages, and communicating with others who are themselves both in the class, but hiking the trail for their own reasons. Class members will learn, through reading journal writing, and interpersonal communication, how pilgrim backpackers experience 'communitas" in relation to both persons and their environment. We will spend about two weeks hiking in Tennessee and Virginia.

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Population: 313847465
Capital: Washington, DC
Per-capita GDP: $ 49000
Size: 9826675 km2
Time Zone: (GMT - 05:00 hours) Eastern Time (US & Canada)

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