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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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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
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....
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
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