My wife and I have hiked all over the south end of the AT, but I have no desire to do the whole thing, although my wife does. My next door neighbor has done it Georgia to Maine and another time from Georgia to PA before his hiking buddy bailed on him due to an injury and the weather going to crap.
Last year my neighbor's wife contacted the guy he hiked the AT with end to end and got copies of all the pictures of the trip. She put them together in a scrap book for him for their 20th wedding anniversary. I've known this guy for over 30 years and I've never seen him shed a tear until the day he opened that present.....
“My wife and I have hiked all over the south end of the AT...”
Now one can hike from the GA terminus to the real terminus of the Appalachian range...Mount Cheaha in Alabama. The Pinhoti trail system in AL now extend east and ties in to the AT. Cheaha is 2407 feet and rises up from nearby Talledega.