New Jersey school requires freshmen to go on 55-mile hike



For more than five decades, St. Benedict’s Preparatory School in Newark, New Jersey, has required its freshmen to go on a mandatory five-day, 55-mile hike on the Appalachian Trail. Steve Hartman explains why in “On the Road.”



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