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Happy Thursday! Dale “Grey Beard” Sanders, 91, became the oldest person to hike the entire Appalachian Trail, finishing all 2,193 miles atop Mount Katahdin in Maine on Monday. Meanwhile, we feel pretty good when our phones congratulate us for hitting 10,000 steps.
Evan Spear is a Morning Dispatch Reporter, based in Washington D.C. Prior to joining the company in 2026, he graduated from the University of Chicago with degrees in history and political science. He has previously interned at The Dispatch and CNN. When not writing for The Morning Dispatch, he is probably playing golf, reading a book, or trying (and failing) to find a place to swim.
