Grandma Gatewood

Emma Rowena Gatewood, better known as Grandma Gatewood , was an extreme hiker and ultralight hiking pioneer who was the first woman to hike the 2,168mile Appalachian Trail from Mount Oglethorpe in Georgia to Mount Katahdin in Maine solo, and in one season.

Gatewood was born to a farm family ofchildren in Guyan Township, Gallia County, Ohio. At ageshe marriedy.o. P. C. Gatewood, a college educated, primary school teacher, and later tobacco farmer, with whom she hadchildren. She hadgrandchildren,greatgrandchildren, and one greatgreatgrandchild living at the time of her death at 85.

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