Section Hiking
AT Day 4 – Blood Mountain
We scale Blood Mountain, then get our first resupply
AT Day 3 – What? It Rains on the AT?
The AT turns predictably soggy
AT Day 2 – Long Creek Falls
On our second day we are blown away by Long Creek Falls
AT Day 1 – The Climb to the Terminus
We enter the approach trail to the southern terminus
Summer in Florida
In Florida I prepare for my return to the trail
All Goals Are Created Equal
I have noticed an occasional through-hiker arrogance I find uncomfortable. It comes up around discussions about Bill Bryson’s A Hike in the Woods and Cheryl Strayed’s Wild. It leaves the ...
9 Mistakes I Made on my PCT LASH (Spoiler: Everything Still Turned Out OK)
No hiker does everything perfectly. Last summer, I hiked over 500 miles of the PCT in the desert and the Sierra Nevada. Before my hike, there were plenty of popular...
2020 Appalachian Trail Section-Hiker Survey: Resupply and Transportation
Long overlooked in our annual surveys, Appalachian Trail (AT) section hikers were the focus of the Trek's 2020 survey. We surveyed 448 people, 43 of whom had completed the entire...
Connecting All the Dots: Completing My 4 Year Odyssey on the AT
At last. Time to get my final, triumphant fix of the AT and, as a friend later said, "put a lid on it." As you might recall, I am primarily...
Flying High (literally): Back on the AT after Two Years Off
At last. AT LAST. After leaving the AT nearly 2 years ago with injuries and dashed hopes for ever finishing my section hiking of the full distance, I finally was...