Mickey Nowak: Even early on, the Long Trail welcomed female hikers

Dear Editors,As a Long Trail hiker for the last 50 years I enjoyed the essay, “Then Again: Treasuring the trail” about the “Three Musketeers” — Catherine Robbins, Hilda Kurth andKathleen Norris — hiking the Long Trail together in 1927.It’s a great story about a great adventure, but I would like to take issue with one topic. The author, Mark Bushnell, makes the statement that, “Womanhood wasn’t widely seen as being compatible with such rigors