Lookout Wild Film Festival

09/03/2026

Our friend Grey Beard Sanders

09/02/2026

Grey Beard will be on Sunny 92.3 this Friday at 8AM with LWFF Host James Howard and Kim Carson.

For over ten years the Lookout Wild Film Festival has brought the best outdoor adventure and conservation films from around the world to Chattanooga for one awesome weekend.

08/31/2026

Dale! You're famous, again.

https://apnews.com/article/appalachian-trail-oldest-hiker-grey-beard-fd7a9a735c2cc1d31412535a2d36f6d8?fbclid=IwY2xjawUClmVwZG9mAWV4dG4DYWVtAjExAHNydGMGYXBwX2lkEDIyMjAzOTE3ODgyMDA4OTIAAR6K11tbPORR3zaBUq4n7VSIvG4VmZAY2oziTQivbyhKeG1E9imRYxyrImKRdQ_aem_9l-Wt60cgwVpKdb7ZWJ3Gw

A 91-year-old man who goes by the nickname Grey Beard has reclaimed his record as the oldest hiker to complete the Appalachian Trail.

08/31/2026

He Did It!!!!!!! 0 miles to go, Dale Greybeard Sanders' attempt to be the oldest person to thru-hike the Appalachian Trail is 100% complete. Come see him at the 15th annual LWFF Jan 14th-17th. We will be having a special presentation and talk with this amazing man. Subscribe to our mailing list at LWFF.org for details.

08/31/2026

He Did It!!!!!!! 0 miles to go, Dale Greybeard Sander's attempt to be the oldest man to thru-hike the Appalachian Trail is 100% complete. Come see him at the 15th annual LWFF Jan 14th-17th. We will be having a special presentation and talk with this amazing man.

08/25/2026

This week marks the National Park Service’s 110th birthday.🎉
🌲 In recognition of this milestone, think about a national park that holds a special memory for you. Feel free to share your favorite NPS park or adventure.

08/14/2026

This week's free movie from LWFF: AGE OF ONDRA - Adam Ondra establishes the mega-line Silence, (still unrepeated eight years later!) the world's first 5.15d. And then, for an encore, he sets a goal to become the first person in history to flash a 5.15.
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This story provides a rare, intimate journey into the mind of an athlete who burns with a crazy, obsessive and cerebral drive that pushes him to envision, and accomplish, the unimaginable.

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08/08/2026

This week's free movie from LWFF: DNA - Seb Bouin tackles what may be the world’s hardest sport climb in the Verdon Gorge of France.

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07/24/2026

Dale Sanders is 91 years old and walking from Georgia to Maine.

He is chipping away at the Appalachian Trail, 12 miles at a time, in a bid to become the oldest person ever to complete it. He already held that record once, back in 2017 at age 82. His friend MJ Eberhart, trail name Nimblewill Nomad, took it from him in 2021 at 83.

Now Sanders, better known as Grey Beard, wants it back.

He started in September 2025. He has 12 months to cover the roughly 2,190 miles for it to count as a true thru-hike. The New York Times found him on Franconia Ridge in New Hampshire, one of the nastiest stretches of the trail, in slick rock and sideways rain.

His mantra for the morning: "It's a don't fall day today."

The Appalachian Trail is not the only line on his résumé. Sanders paddled the Mississippi River at 80. He holds the age record for the Grand Canyon Rim-to-Rim-to-Rim. When he turns 92, he says he plans to go back and grab the one-way Rim-to-Rim record too.

Records are made to be broken. He just keeps making them again.

📷 Courtesy Dale Sanders