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Gear Review: Waymark Gear Company THRU 38L Pack

Gear Review: Waymark Gear Company THRU 38L Pack

Thinking about getting a new pack? Consider a Waymark Gear Company pack! With total control of customization down to the color of each individual panel, you'll be sure to stand...

Jul 29, 2018 : Alexa Bonsai Shapiro
Bittersweet Endings

Bittersweet Endings

Waking up in the soft morning light, air thick with the scent of the pines, on a giant island in the sky. A feeling, a momentary state of being, too...

Jul 29, 2018 : Righteous
SOBO Gear List (After Some Shakedown Time)

SOBO Gear List (After Some Shakedown Time)

Gear list We had planed to post our gear list pre trip, but after running a bit short on time thought it would make more sense to make this after...

Jul 29, 2018 : Jangie
Gear Review: Hyperlite Mountain Gear Windrider 3400

Gear Review: Hyperlite Mountain Gear Windrider 3400

You'll be hard pressed to trek too far on the Appalachian Trail or Pacific Crest Trail without running into someone using a Hyperlite Mountain Gear Windrider 3400. These 100 percent...

Jul 28, 2018 : Anne K. Baker
120 Miles Done: Through the Smoke and Fire to Crater Lake

120 Miles Done: Through the Smoke and Fire to Crater Lake

I just woke up in my little one-person progressively-worse-smelling tent, wandered to the actual bathroom! with actual running water! at this crater lake campsite, rubbed layer one of dirt off...

Jul 28, 2018 : Heather Pearson
100 Days on the PCT: The Real Hiking Viking and Badger’s SOBO Journey [Episode 3]

100 Days on the PCT: The Real Hiking Viking and Badger’s SOBO Journey [Episode 3]

In 2017, Zach "Badger" Davis and The Real Hiking Viking set out to SOBO thru-hike the Pacific Crest Trail. They documented (most of) their adventure in a new series called...

Jul 28, 2018 : Zach
The Challenges and Benefits of Seeking Solitude on the Social Trail

The Challenges and Benefits of Seeking Solitude on the Social Trail

This friendship is a little different. You've hiked more miles together than days you've known each other, pushed through torrential downpours and blistering heat waves, chaffed and stumbled and

Jul 28, 2018 : Maximilian Armstrong
This Week’s Top Instagram Posts from the #PacificCrestTrail

This Week’s Top Instagram Posts from the #PacificCrestTrail

It’s about that time again! Welcome to our weekly roundup where we carefully select and showcase the most impressive, hilarious, and all around epic photos taken on the Pacific Crest Trail....

Jul 28, 2018 : Andrea Davis
Mailbag with Jennifer Pharr Davis: Taking a Year Off Before Finishing a Thru-Hike

Mailbag with Jennifer Pharr Davis: Taking a Year Off Before Finishing a Thru-Hike

Welcome to Mailbag with Jennifer Pharr Davis, where we take hikers’ questions and pass them off to the trail legend for her wisdom and analysis. JPD’s newest book, The Pursuit of Endurance is

Jul 28, 2018 : Jennifer Pharr Davis
Federal Appeals Court Strikes Against Mountain Valley Pipeline

Federal Appeals Court Strikes Against Mountain Valley Pipeline

In a breakthrough for environmentalists on Friday, a federal appeals court struck down two major decisions that would have allowed a natural gas pipeline to slice through Jefferson National Forest

Jul 27, 2018 : Andrea Davis