Nimblewill Nomad
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M.J. "Sunny" Eberhart hugs his friend Kimm Wright atop the newly restored Flagg Mountain lookout tower Sunday.

When M.J. "Sunny" Eberhart, 83, began his 2,600-mile hike in February, he started at the Flagg Mountain lookout tower, .9 miles into the Pinhoti approach trail which links to the Appalachian Trail in Georgia.

Eberhart, known by the trail name "Nimblewill Nomad," completed that journey earlier this month, becoming the oldest to hike the entire Appalachian Trail. On Sunday, the long-distance hiker — back home in Coosa County — walked that last nine-tenths of a mile, becoming the oldest to hike not just the trail, but the entire Appalachian range.