After writing about Lion King's documentary, I poked around on Trail Journals and came across his website - http://walkingwithfreedom.com/.
Just by reading his About Me, I have a whole different opinion about someone who I already thought positively of. Lion King, or Michael Daniel as his parents call him, has been hiking since 1998, and since then has hiked over 10,000 miles. 8,000 of those miles were thru-hikes on the AT. Not only has he hiked the AT, but he has thru-hiked the John Muir Trail in 2002 as well as The Pacific Crest Trail from Mexico to Canada in 2006. There is so much more to this man than we saw in his film, and it is admirable to me how dedicated he is to something he loves.
I am unsure of how dated this particular piece of information I found on his website is, but he is hiking/has hiked the American Discovery Trail which totals over 6,000 miles from coast to coast and will also be the first time ever a person has walked non-stop the entire length of the trail in one trip on foot. On top of that, he raised money for the American Heart Association over the course of nearly a year of walking.
Lion King has done so much for himself and for others just through hiking, and I just thought dedicating a journal entry to him was appropriate. For those of you who intend to start hiking - do it until you can't anymore. Nothing stopped Lion King.
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