Julie Queen is the Manager of the Appalachian Trail Museum and has been in this role since March 2021. She thru-hiked the AT in 2016 and served as a Ridgerunner with the Potomac Appalachian Trail Club in 2017.
Gear is one topic that every hiker has in common with every other hiker, but the gear you see on the Appalachian Trail today is radically different from what hikers carried in the past.