Beyond the AT
Tahoe Rim Trail: I Couldn’t Hike 2,000 Miles This Summer, so I Did This Instead
The Tahoe Rim Trail is a 170-mile loop trail that loops around, well, Lake Tahoe. On a map, it looks like this: Map courtesy of visitrenotahoe.com Through my inexpertly maneuvered...
How to Hike Every 4,000-Footer in the Rangeley Lakes Region in One Trip
After spending four days in the Rangeley Lakes Region of Maine, I have compiled an itinerary of what one would need to do to hike every 4,000-footer in this region...
Ten Reasons to Hike the Tahoe Rim Trail
Since finishing up the AT last September, I’ve been on the lookout for my next backpacking experience. Scouting for the site of my next adventure (and first solo thru-hike), I...
You’ve Got This Whole Place to Yourself Tonight
The following is a guest post by Michael Seymour Blake I belt out some Bowie on the two and a half hour car ride to the Slide Mountain Wilderness. When Janet...
Breaking News: The Long Trail is Great
So, the long trail got not good, but great. Once you get out of Johnson, VT, and walk up the logging road for a few miles, then a snowmobile trail,...
Trans-Catalina Trail: Three Days of Oceanfront Views and Steep Climbs
Trans-Catalina At-a-Glance Distance: 36 miles Elevation gain: 8,000 feet Trail type: Point-to-point Location: Catalina Island, off the coast of Southern California. Terrain: Desert like, sand
The John Muir Trail: 211 Miles of Bucket-List Hiking
Length: 211 miles, plus ten more to get off Mt. Whitney. Location: The trail runs from Yosemite National Park to the peak of Mt. Whitney. Trail Type: Shuttle end-to-end. Scenery:...
5 Things to Know About The Barkley Marathons: Ultrarunning’s Most Fascinating Race
On June 10, 1977, James Earl Ray, the assassin of Martin Luther King Jr, escaped from Brushy Mountain State Penitentiary in Tennessee along with six other convicts. For 55 hours...
5 Tasty Reasons to Hike the Camino de Santiago
We thru-hike to eat, and to eat whatever we want. Not that I have to twist your arm to want to hike the Camino de Santiago pilgrimage route across Spain,...
Camino de Santiago: Luxurious Long-Distance Hiking
Never thought you’d see luxury and long-distance hiking in the same sentence, did you? Don’t think you have what it takes to go without a shower for a week, or miss...
