Backpacking food
Backpacking Food: Best Kept Simple
When you tell people you’re moving into the woods, they assume you're going to hunt and gather everything you’ll be eating or
Our Favorite Three-Ingredient Backpacking Meals
...For When You Hate Everything in Your Food Bag The first few hundred miles of your hike will be a blissful, face-stuffing party of Snickers and pasta sides, but soon...
The Thru-Hiker’s Spice Kit: A Simple Guide for Improving Meals on the Trail
Let’s face it: thru-hiker food generally sucks. Food that is cheap, portable, lightweight, and durable enough to last through trail conditions is typically chock-full of preservatives (namely
Some Guy’s (Mostly) Plant-Based Resupply
"Vegan PCT? Hmm, not much there. Plant-based PCT? Nope. Vegan thru-hike? Ah, this is alright," I said to myself as I stared at a Google search bar, waiting for...
The Frugal Thru Hiker: A Few Tips on How to Stretch the Dollar on the Trail
A short, fun guide on how to pinch pennies during a thru hike when it comes to getting clean, food resupply, gear, shelter, and more!
Day Hiker / Section Hiker / Thru Hiker: Can You Tell the Difference?
A funny look at the differences between Day Hikers, Section Hikers, and Thru Hikers.
Hiker Box Diaries Episode 9: A Thousand Miles From Nowhere
" The mighty Sierra, miles in height, and so gloriously colored and so radiant, it seemed not clothed with light but wholly composed of it, like the wall of some...
A Day in the Life
Through all the excitement, there's less exciting aspects of a thru-hike (for me anyway) that I experience on a daily basis. As of right now, it goes something like this:
Trail Magic, a hikers request.
Trail Magic It’s a burning hot day in Pennsylvania. I've seen 3 rattlesnakes already today sunning themselves on the exposed ridges. Luckily I had me earbuds out to hear all...
Fire Between Walker Pass And Kennedy Meadows
TULARE COUNTY, Calif. - UPDATE: 250 firefighters burning the Chimney Fire, with zero-percent containment. A brush fire burning in a remote part of Tulare County is visible in parts of...