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Welcome to my blog.
Expect reflections on long distance hiking, hiking culture, nature, creativity and my undying love for backrests.
Welcome to my blog.
Expect reflections on long distance hiking, hiking culture, nature, creativity and my undying love for backrests.
Today I started a 500 mile hike on the AT. I’ll hike from Grayson Highlands State Park, VA to Harper’s Ferry, WV. Just getting warmed up for something later on in the summer.
It’s been a very long time since I’ve done a gear post, so let’s do this!
All the things I’m carrying in my pack for the AT portion of my 2024 hiking mash up.
The plan was to hike south through Montana, Idaho, Wyoming. Then turn left on the Colorado Trail if it was late and I’d really been able to pull off slow hiking.
I could be happy with going halfsies on a 3,000 mile trail this year.
I promised myself I’d start slow. It was a sensible idea that was easier said than done. Turns out the desert offers a trifecta of disasters waiting to happen.
2023 was a year of disappointment, followed by redemption. It’s still hard for me to admit failure, but fail I did, not once, but twice, on both ends of the Continental Divide Trail. Maybe I “failed upward,” as they say, because I learned some things, put them into practice, and eventually took a long walk in October where everything finally worked.
By the time I hit the trail on May 11, I want to be able to hike twenty miles and still be able to get up off the ground the next morning. And then keep doing it. For days.
My plan is to train like a marathoner.
Part one of a series on how to train for a thru hike (and why even bother when everyone else seems to “hike themselves into shape.”
Follow along as I plan my upcoming hike of the Pacific Crest Trail, with loads of information about gear, resupply, outfits, healthy eating and pre-hike training. Let’s do this!
Sometimes I think my trail name should be Notebook.
I carry three on every hike.
So much for ultralight.
This morning I sat on top of Springer Mountain, remembering to appreciate the accomplishment of walking 539.3 miles, of completing something I set out to do.
