Shakedown
I Just Gotta Shake Shake Shake Shake
61 days until we are officially standing on Springer! My last post left a few things to try out on a trip before putting them through the 2000+ mile ringer,...
A Small Work Up Hike (from last year)
May of '14 I'm looking for a nice loop trail that will serve as a shake down hike for gear and personal suffering. I found a nice one in the...
Top 5 Items Sent Home in a Shakedown
Shakedown The act of having an experienced backpacker cull through your backpack in search of unneeded items. I have only worked one thru hiker season at Mountain Crossings, but the patterns are
Tales of Trials and Magic Abound! – Part 1
Otherwise known as the "start" of my thru-hike... although it was really more of an intended 5-day turned 3-day shakedown trip (more on that later). This week ended up being...
Week 7 in New Zealand: Kepler Great Walk
We finished up our six week class, let the adventure begin! Now that we are free to move about the country, our first stop was to explore the Kepler Great...
Shakedown! Neither Wind nor Rain nor Dark of Night…
We can acknowledge that our families and friends think we're crazy to be attempting this journey. For those of us with little or no experience, this becomes a perception of total insanity in their
Our Second, Extended Shakedown Trip
I’m late in publishing this. We went to hike the AT in Maryland back during the second week of December. Then the holidays came and now I’m regrouping and catching...