Thru-Hiking Culture
Week 20: Pacific Crest Trail Days!
A Week Off I take a full week off trail. My timing was a little off. If I were to continue at the pace I was going, I would make...
The First Rule About the Appalachian Trail is You Don’t Talk About Springer
In addition, the anonymity of trail names to is fascinating. One could really know truly nothing about somebody they have been hiking with for weeks. Shit, they could be Tyler...
Frozen!
Day 115: 14 miles. Agua Dulce to tentsite at mile 2213 We had a perfect breakfast that Nine Beers' sister and her husband prepared for us. Then we went to...
The Liquor Store in Hiker Heaven and Hiker Hell
Day 110: 17 miles. Tehachapi to mile 2104 We had breakfast at the same diner as the dinner. I had some egg, hashbrown and a massive belgian waffle with strawberries...
Congratulations to these 2022 Pacific Crest Trail Thru-Hikers: Part 9
Most avid long-distance hikers dream about someday completing a long trail. Most often, those individuals dream of hiking the Pacific Crest Trail. Though many dream of taking on the challenge...
Congratulations to these 2022 Appalachian Trail Thru-Hikers: Part 14
What is more inspiring to an avid hiker than watching a bunch of determined thru-hikers complete the Appalachian Trail? Not much, we'd say. These incredible thru-hikers have officially completed
Happy Halloween
Photo credit Zoe Morelli Finger Lakes Floating Dress Photography I am a witch with rhyme and reason I am a changeling like the season My mother the moon 🌙 My...
Trek Readers Share Their Best Spooky Hiking Stories
A hiker awakens suddenly to the sight of a shadowy figure crawling toward them, and they try to scream, but there is only silence—and the thick boreal forest that surrounds...
Professor Hardcore’s 28-Year Appalachian Trail Section Hike
My AT section hike began in 1975 with an impulsive and poorly planned climb up Katahdin on the Hunt Trail with my two younger brothers and my 11-year-old daughter. Twenty-eight...
6 All-Too Common Backpacking Myths That Need to Die
You might have thought backpacking was just a straightforward way to unplug and connect with nature, but no! It is a lifestyle rife with controversy and seething with scandalous misinformation....