March 26 - August 24... 147 days.... 133 days of hiking in rain, hail, snow, dark, heat, cold, crawling hands and knees over boulders, climbing vertical rock face, through forest, plains, swamps, rocky river beds, up and down mountains and hills and traversing all manners of water for 2,184.2 miles (exclusive of "Bonus Miles"). She's done!! She was one of 486 of over 2500 hikers in 2012 who declared a thru hike and completed it. You can review Five Pair's Journal here: Five Pair 2012 Thru Hike .

Below is an article that ran in the "AT Journeys" magazine in the July/August, 2013, edition.