After hiking about 700 miles over three months, losing 22 pounds and taking a month to recuperate, Dallas litigator Mike Lynn is back at the firm he founded—preparing for a trial in a couple of weeks.

“Everything seems so fast,” said Lynn about his first week back at Lynn Tillotson Pinker Cox. He hiked from April 1 to June 28—traversing the Appalachian Trail through Georgia, North Carolina, Tennessee and Virginia—and then returned to his law practice on Aug. 3.

“When I was on the AT, I was just another hiker—not a lawyer,” Lynn said. “I was known as 'TinMan,' and I responded to TinMan, and frankly got to know it better than my real name.”