Any high school graduate who thinks that college is merely a next step should walk a mile in Gabe Acheson’s shoes. When the Park School graduate arrived Thursday at Yale University, he’d walked nearly 400 miles, fulfilling a promise he’d made in his application to the Ivy League school, and to himself, to not just embark on a new adventure but create one.
Acheson set out from his Rodgers Forge home on July 29, with a 35-pound backpack, an optimistic attitude and enough packaged food to eat about 7,000 calories a day for his first 30 miles. He started his first leg toward Pennsylvania to join the Appalachian Trail, which would lead him north toward New Haven, Conn.
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