hiker culture
Trailboard Top 40: A Playlist for Your Appalachian Trail Thru-Hike
Whether I was belting out the lyrics, singing them to myself, or some sort of awful duet with my hiking partner Bandanna Ben, The Scientist by Coldplay checked all the...
How Thru-Hiking Ruined My Life
Those who thru-hike learn to survive anything—as long as they believe in what they're doing. However, if you want to be the kind of person who can keep your head...
Why I Love Hiking Culture
We may be smelly, dirty, tired, and sore, but we love and encourage each other to push ourselves more.
Han Shan and Hiker Trash
April is National Poetry Month, a fact I mention here only so much as poetry has been an inspiration and activity related to my hiking. Poetry, and the example of...
Time and Moments
The way we mark the seconds and minutes, sixty of them, goes back to the Babylonians. I assume the twenty-four hour clock is also astoundingly ancient. The western calendar of...
The Twelve Days of Appalachian Trail Christmas
The Twelve Days of Appalachian Trail Christmas On the first day of Christmas the AT gave to me a white blaze on an oak tree! On the second day of...