A 79-year-old man is set to complete the Triple Crown of long-distance through-hiking for a total of 7,858 miles.
SALT LAKE CITY — Given that he's already hiked the entirety of both the Pacific Crest Trail and the Appalachian Trail, it would seem that bagging the Continental Divide Trail — thereby completing the Triple Crown of long-distance through-hiking — this summer would be pretty much a done deal for Richard Jones.
To arrive at the cusp of the Triple Crown, Jones hiked the Pacific Crest in 2013 and the Appalachian in 2015, when he was a mere 70 and 72.His plan was to do the Continental Divide — the longest and considered to be the toughest of the big three — much earlier than this. "I'm hopeful, but to be honest I don't know if it's going to happen, I really don't. I'm anticipatory," confessed Jones before flying to Tucson earlier this week. From there he took a Greyhound to the little town of Lordsburg, New Mexico, and then a shuttle van the last 80 miles to the U.S.-Mexican border, where on April 28, he turned around and started walking north.
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