Former Chapter Coordinator, President, and Co-Chair of AHTS’ Board of Directors, Jeff and his wife, Nancy, run Next Step Hostel in Talladega. Their first date was a hike in Cades Cove in the Smokey Mountains: they've hiked about 400 miles in the Smokies over the 42 years of their relationship. Both have hiked the AT, the Camino de Santiago, and about 300 miles of the PCT, while Jeff has hiked all of the Alabama Pinhoti, creating a GPS track and taking photos used by the Pinhoti Steering Committee and for some reason ending up used by Guthook’s Pinhoti app. Jeff is a retired Presbyterian minister in the PC(USA).