Myron Avery

Benton MacKaye and Myron Avery (right)

Myron Haliburton Avery (1899–1952) was an American lawyer, hiker and explorer. Born in Lubec, Maine, Avery was a protégé of Judge Arthur Perkins and a collaborator and sometimes rival of Benton MacKaye. He was president of the Potomac Appalachian Trail Club from 1927 to 1941 and chairman of the Appalachian Trail Conference from 1931 to his death in 1952. The first 2000 Miler of the Appalachian Trail, he was also an alumnus of Bowdoin College and Harvard Law School. After his death, a mountaintop on the Appalachian Trail in Maine was renamed "Avery Peak" in his honor. A lean-to was built below the peak's summit and named for him in 1953, but is now no longer standing.

"To those who would see the Maine wilderness, tramp day by day through a succession of ever delightful forest, past lake and stream, and over mountains, we would say: Follow the Appalachian Trail across Maine. It cannot be followed on horse or awheel. Remote for detachment, narrow for chosen company, winding for leisure, lonely for contemplation, it beckons not merely north and south but upward to the body, mind and soul of man." - Myron Avery, In the Maine Woods, 1934

External links

• Appalachian Trail Conservancy (formerly Conference)
• Appalachian Trail Conservancy - History section
• Potomac Appalachian Trail Club
• Maine Appalachian Trail Club

Sources

• Anderson, Larry. 2002. Benton MacKaye: Conservationist, Planner, and Creator of the Appalachian Trail. Johns Hopkins University Press. ISBN 0801877911.
• Luxenberg, Larry. 1995. Walking the Appalachian Trail. Stackpole Books. ISBN 0811730956.

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Name	Avery, Myron
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Date of birth	1899
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Date of death	1952
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