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The Arizona Trail: How to get to Las Vegas
Part 23 Stateline Campground to Looking Glass Basecamp "The Road goes ever on and on Down from the door where it began. Now far ahead the Road has gone,...
The Trail Provides
T-minus 3 The saying that the trail provides is such an underrated statement. I’m not even on trail yet and the trail has already provided opportunity, a trail community, and...
CDT + GDT: Monarch Pass to Twin Lakes – First Stretch Alone in Snow
Resupply 10 | Monarch Pass to Twin Lakes Day 41, 19.4 miles. They say that if you want to meet up with your friend who’s thru hiking, you have to...
Part Sixteen: No Pain, No Gain
I. New Reality I woke up groggy this morning. The shrill cry of a boreal owl had pierced the quietness of the night and left me twisting in my sleeping...
CDT + GDT: Lake City to Monarch Pass – Leaving the San Juans for the Collegiates
Resupply 9 | Lake City to Monarch Pass Day 36, 5.6 miles. Right outside where we stayed overnight there’s an amazing bakery where we had breakfast twice. The owners of...
CDT + GDT: Pagosa Springs to Lake City – Illness While Isolated in the San Juans
Resupply 8 | Pagosa Springs to Lake City Day 30, 14.8 miles. After we had breakfast at the hotel, we packed six days of food into our packs. Trace drove...
Day By Day: Monarch Pass to Frisco
Woohoo! Back on trail and it feels so good! This section took us from Monarch Pass to Frisco. To avoid the snow, we took the Collegiate East route along the...
Why I’m Hiking the Triple Crown
Listing my current "whys" as I embark on the final leg of my Triple Crown journey has me reflecting on my original "whys" before I became a thru-hiker.
Final Farewells
Airport Thoughts When I first thru-hiked, I didn’t realize until after the final summit that I had used the several months-long galavant as a form of escape. I was running...
From the POD to the Peaks: Why I’m Still Walking
Something is off in this world we’ve built. Everything is a rush: faster, faster, and faster. We’re chasing destinations we never stop to question. Life becomes a checklist. Our hobbies...