Who am I? I am a librarian (1 of 6 in my greater family group) Specifically, I am a government documents librarian and have been one for 36 years at Oklahoma State University where I am the department head of a very large collection. My wife is the department head of the Science and Engineering Division at the same library. We have two sons who are out of college. One married, one not. Interests include: working with the Boy Scouts (my sons are both Eagle Scouts, stamp collecting, cooking, reading and hiking. My handle is athikerjp for Flickr and the name on my car tag ATHIKER. Hiking the Appalachian Trail is has been a goal for a long time. My trail name is Low Clearance. I began hiking the AT in 1999 as a section hiker. This year on August 3, 2009 I finished the trail. A broken leg in 2004 on the first day of the last 700 mile section has slowed me down. Maybe being too careful now while hiking and getting older are other factors in the time it has taken me to finish. My sons have hiked a large part with me when they are available and my wife has been the no. 1 Trail Angel by giving support to our efforts. This is probably enough to write and if you have questions you can email me through this site or my normal email: john.phillips@okstate.edu