As the story goes, Mackaye was sitting in a tree atop Stratton Mountain in Vermont when the notion came to him of a trail following the Appalachian Mountains from Maine to Georgia.

• 据说，麦凯当时正坐在佛蒙特州斯特拉山顶的一棵大树顶上，突然脑海中闪现出一个念头，要是有一条小径沿着阿帕拉契亚山脉从缅因州一直绵延到乔治亚州该多好啊!