Retired Navy veteran reclaims title of oldest person to finish crossing Appalachian Trail

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Source: www.cbsnews.com · Section: headlines · Bias: Center · Published: Wed, 02 Sep 2026 23:42:24 GMT

A retired Navy veteran set a record as the oldest person to ever finish hiking along the 2,200-mile-long Appalachian Trail in 2017. After a friend took his title in 2021, Dale Sanders reclaimed it this week. Tony Dokoupil has the story.