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The Call
Before reading anything at all, please listen to this song. Maranda and I LOVE the show Parks and Recreation. Because we are overly attached to shows, one of our favorite...
Travel hacking the AT: Adventures in grocery hacking
This is not ultralight. It's getting closer to D-day and that means it's getting real out here in Everywhere Else, where I live. I finished the last volunteer placement during...
Prologue
The following is a guest post courtesy of John Winder, an aspiring 2016 thru-hiker. Have a story you want to share on Appalachian Trials? Send it through our “Submit a Story” form....
Nice View? Put the Camera Away!
Can't wait to make all your friends and family jealous with pictures of each shelter, each view, each white blaze? Well, maybe lay off the camera a bit...
Peeing: More Than A Feeling
Besides way too much airplay being afforded to the repetitive synthesized guitar riffs of Boston’s “More Than A Feeling,” few things peeve me more than spotting white puffs of toilet...
What Possessed Me To Do This
Last summer the idea to go for a six month hike popped into my head and it stuck. No matter what I did I couldn’t get it out. I started...
I’d Settle for a Slow Down
Fast. Faster. Fastest. It's what we expect every day. And we want what we want when we want it. Over the years we have programmed and manipulated society into thinking that everything has to...
How a Warm-Blooded Southerner Preps for the Colorado Trail
Date: November 2014 Location: Grayson Highlands, VA Temps: below freezing Snow fall: more than I'd ever seen in my life (somewhat facetious) We were two days away from the end...
High Highs and Low Lows
It is perhaps the optimistic nature of planning a long distance hiking adventure to imagine optimal conditions. Some of us see a vision of ourselves bathed in happiness on the...
A Journey to the Fiordland: The Greenstone and Routeburn Tracks of New Zealand
In 2009 I went the Middle East as part of a twelve month deployment while serving in the U.S. Army. In January 2010 I traded the harsh, barren landscape of...