Warwick - It took a while - a while as in seven years - but former Warwick resident George Sheedy completed the 2,179 mile-long Appalachian Trail on Friday, June 30, by crossing the Bear Mountain Bridge. According to his daughter, Lauren, he chose to save this section of the trail for last in order to share the moment with his wife, Rosemary, children and grandchildren who walked the bridge with him. Sheedy, 69, is a retired math teacher at Tuxedo High School. After raising his family in Warwick for 25 years, he moved to Greensboro, Georgia, about 4 and a half years ago because the nicer weather allowed him to play more golf. The Appalachian Trail runs from Springer Mountain, Ga., to Mount Katahdin in Maine. For the last seven years, Sheedy would tackle portions of it. When his daughter asked him why he decided to make the trek, he told her that he hiked so much of it, with groups and on his own, that at some point he just decided to do the whole thing. The last section took 30 days and it rained and sleeted for 28 of those days. When he finally came out of the woods, his daughter reported, the road was flooded and he couldn’t get to his car. Sheedy was unavailable for comment for this story. You see, he is in New Hampshire hiking the White Mountains, where there are 46 peaks, some with summits of more than 4,000 feet above sea level. “I think his next plan is to finish all of those,” Lauren Sheedy said. “He just really likes hiking.”