Education
Harvard Law School; Bowdoin College.
Harvard Law School; Bowdoin College.
He was president of the Potomac Appalachian Trail Club from 1927 to 1941 and chairman of the Appalachian Trail Conference from 1931 to his death in 1952. The first 2000 Miler of the Appalachian Trail, he was also an alumnus of Bowdoin College and Harvard Law School. After his death, a mountaintop on the Appalachian Trail in Maine was renamed "Avery Peak" in his honor.
A lean-to was built below the peak"s summit and named for him in 1953, but is now no longer standing.
On June 17, 2011 he was inducted into the Appalachian Trail Hall of Fame at the Appalachian Trail Museum as a charter member. "To those who would see the Maine wilderness, tramp day by day through a succession of ever delightful forest, past lake and stream, and over mountains, we would say: Follow the Appalachian Trail across Maine.
lieutenant cannot be followed on horse or awheel. Remote for detachment, narrow for chosen company, winding for leisure, lonely for contemplation, it beckons not merely north and south but upward to the body, mind and soul of manitoba" - Myron Avery, In the Maine Woods, 1934.
Quotations: "To those who would see the Maine wilderness, tramp day by day through a succession of ever delightful forest, past lake and stream, and over mountains, we would say: Follow the Appalachian Trail across Maine. lieutenant cannot be followed on horse or awheel. Remote for detachment, narrow for chosen company, winding for leisure, lonely for contemplation, it beckons not merely north and south but upward to the body, mind and soul of manitoba" - Myron Avery, In the Maine Woods, 1934.