On Sunday, Maine hiker Briana DeSanctis posted an image to her Instagram account of her walking into the ocean at Point Reyes National Seashore. She's carrying her hiking boots in her hand, her bare feet leaving prints in the wet sand. What the photograph doesn't portray are the many, many miles those feet walked to get here.
DeSanctis set off on her hike two years ago, and is now believed to be the third person and first woman to have completed the gargantuan American Discovery Trail. The ADT stretches from the Atlantic ocean on the shores of Cape Henlopen in Delaware all the way to the Pacific in California, making it one of the longest hiking trails in the US.
