Hike is almost half over for Lexington man celebrating recovery
bfortune@herald-leader.comJuly 2, 2012   Christian Torp, is
about 930 miles into his quest to hike the entire 2,184 miles of
the Appalachian Trail this year.  Christian Torp, the Lexington
man celebrating his recovery from a traumatic brain injury by
attempting to hike the Appalachian Trail in one uninterrupted
journey, is about halfway through his trip.  Reached on his
cellphone in Luray, Va., in the Shenandoah Valley on Monday,
Torp was shopping for bagels, apples, candy and olive oil to
replenish his supplies.  "Things are going real well. It's a
whole lot more work than I thought it would be," he said.  Since
starting March 14 on Springer Mountain in Georgia, the
southernmost point of the trail, Torp has hiked 930 miles, not
quite halfway on the approximately 2,184-mile route. But it was
a journey to get to that starting point.  In June 2003, while a
University of Kentucky law student, Torp crashed his motorcycle,
cracking his skull in four