Interview
Trail Days 2024 Hiker’s Stories – “Forager”
“Bad Idea” and his mild-mannered canine companion Willow were a couple of my closest neighbors in Tent City. Their Durston tent was already well staked out across the pathway when...
Trail Days 2024 Hiker’s Stories – Will
I met Will one evening at the One Way Ministries Coffee House across the street from Tent City. City. The Coffee House was one of my favorite places to hang...
Trail Days 2024 Hiker’s Stories – Daniel
I met Daniel at the Thursday evening One Way Ministries Free Hiker Feast. He sat across from me and my friend Dave. We struck up a conversation as we sat...
Trail Days 2024 Hiker’s Stories – John B.
Some might describe Trail Days in Damascus, VA as time when AT hikers, both current and former, gather to share stories and the camaraderie of the trail community. It can...
Pamela Clark Is On Track To Become the Oldest Female AT Thru-Hiker Ever
When Pamela Clark read Bill Bryson’s A Walk in the Woods, she was amused and curious. But she never imagined she would one day put her own feet on the...
Meet Old Lady on the Trail: 81-Year-Old Triple Crowner Mary E. Davison
Mary E. Davison — trail name "Medicare Pastor" — is the Old Lady on the Trail, and she's proud of it. A retired pastor and grandmother of ten, she began...
Deep Hiking: India “Diagonal” Wood May Be the First To Complete the “Colorado X”
It was 2020 and life was staring India Wood in the face. She’d exhausted herself trying to find an agent for her memoir and just closed her business-research firm after...
Standing Bear Trio Recalls Rescue of Family Dog Mauled by Bear on AT
Earlier this year, two people and two dogs went out for a harmless little hike on the Appalachian Trail; a hike that would turn into a scene of horror, and...
Steve McClure on Backcountry Safety and Updating the 10 Essentials
Have you ever set out on a beautiful sunny day that turned into a wet misery halfway through? Did a snowstorm suddenly change course and dump right on your course? Maybe...
Trail Marshall on Thru-Hiking Culture and Hiking the Mountains to Sea Trail in Winter
The Mountains To Sea Trail, one of America’s newer long distance trails, has relatively few hikers on it but is growing in popularity. The story Trail Marshall gives insight into...