Backpack used by Earl Shaffer while hiking the Appalachian Trail
name: label: user
content: Shaffer, Earl
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: Green canvas backpack with a metal frame and canvas straps. There is a leather grip at the top of the bag. The bag draws closed with a rawhide string and closes with a front flap. This was used by the donor, Earl Shaffer during his 1998 walk of the Appalachian Trail at age 80. This was the last of three times Shaffer was said to have walked the entire length of the 2,180 miles of the Appalachian Trail, his first walk was in 1948 and his second was in 1965.. The Appalachian Trail is one of the longest continuously marked footpaths in the world traveling through fourteen states along the Appalachian mountain range from Springer Mountain, Georgia, to the Trail’s northern end in Katahdin, Maine. The trail—completed in 1937 thanks to the cooperation of government agencies, private partners, and volunteers—continues to be sustained by public-private partnerships.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: web subject
content: Sports
label: name of sport
content: Hiking
label: level of sport
content: recreational
setName: label: See more items in
content: Culture and the Arts: Sport and Leisure
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2002.0195.05
label: accession number
content: 2002.0195
label: catalog number
content: 2002.0195.05
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Backpack
label: Object Name
content: backpack, hiking
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: fabric, canvas (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: leather (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 54 cm x 46 cm x 20 cm; 21 1/4 in x 18 1/8 in x 7 7/8 in