Author: Phyllis Austin
AMC Outdoors inspires people to engage in outdoor conservation and recreation through meaningful stories.
				
			 
  
      On Reaching the End of the Trail
      
During years of appointments, my doctor and I have spent as much time talking about our hiking trips as about my age and medical diagnoses. A while ago, he casually said, “People who have the hardest time facing the realities of physical decline are those who have had an active outdoor life.” He offered these […]