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    What I Wish I'd Known Before Hiking the CDT: Idaho/Montana
    Brandon A. Kelone
    • Mar 2, 2021
    • 11 min

    What I Wish I'd Known Before Hiking the CDT: Idaho/Montana

    There’s a feeling that accompanies every thru hike. There’s this moment when the trail starts to feel like home and the prospect of what...
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    What I Wish I’d Known Before Hiking the CDT: Wyoming
    Brandon A. Kelone
    • Jun 9, 2020
    • 12 min

    What I Wish I’d Known Before Hiking the CDT: Wyoming

    The Colorado/Wyoming sate line was, for me, where I really felt like I was stepping into the unknown. Prior to my walking the CDT, I’d...
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    What I Wish I’d Known Before Hiking the CDT: Colorado
    Brandon A. Kelone
    • Apr 7, 2020
    • 36 min

    What I Wish I’d Known Before Hiking the CDT: Colorado

    There’s no way to ever fit an entire thru hike into a book, much less an article or a blog. You’d need a series of books if you really...
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    What I Wish I’d Known Before Hiking the CDT: New Mexico
    Brandon A. Kelone
    • Apr 4, 2020
    • 24 min

    What I Wish I’d Known Before Hiking the CDT: New Mexico

    I dreamed about hiking the CDT for a lot of years before the opportunity finally made itself available in the spring of 2019, in what...
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    Thru Hiking in the Era of Covid-19; Now’s the Time to Show We Care
    Brandon A. Kelone
    • Mar 21, 2020
    • 17 min

    Thru Hiking in the Era of Covid-19; Now’s the Time to Show We Care

    These are strange times that we’re living in. I really don’t know how to say it any more simply than that. After 34 years of living a...
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    "Base Weight—How Light is Too Light?"
    Brandon A. Kelone
    • Dec 16, 2019
    • 13 min

    "Base Weight—How Light is Too Light?"

    In 2015 I met another thru hiker on the Pacific Crest Trail who had taken the trail name “Seventy-Five.” For weeks I’d been hearing...
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    "Lessons from the Continental Divide Trail" [Part 3 of 3]: The Universal
    Brandon A. Kelone
    • Dec 15, 2019
    • 15 min

    "Lessons from the Continental Divide Trail" [Part 3 of 3]: The Universal

    Thru hiking changes your priorities. Thru hiking reminds you that water is more important than money, that food is more important than...
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    "Lessons from the Continental Divide Trail" [Part 2 of 3]: The Personal
    Brandon A. Kelone
    • Dec 14, 2019
    • 18 min

    "Lessons from the Continental Divide Trail" [Part 2 of 3]: The Personal

    The practical stuff is fairly straight forward. It’s basically a list of things that helped me to stay alive and somewhat sane along the...
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    "Lessons from the Continental Divide Trail" [Part 1 of 3]: The Practical
    Brandon A. Kelone
    • Dec 12, 2019
    • 16 min

    "Lessons from the Continental Divide Trail" [Part 1 of 3]: The Practical

    There is no singular reason for why I spend months on end hiking across the country. There’s no singular reason for why any of us do it....
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    Post Trail Depression
    Brandon A. Kelone
    • Mar 1, 2019
    • 8 min

    Post Trail Depression

    About six months back I found myself staying at a little bed & breakfast for a couple of days before starting out on my last leg of the...
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    "Fear"
    Brandon A. Kelone
    • Dec 2, 2018
    • 4 min

    "Fear"

    Fear is an integral part of any long trail that I have ever walked, and I’d like to believe that anyone who tells you that this wasn’t...
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    "What I learned on the Colorado Trail" (Advice for My Future Self or Others)
    Brandon A. Kelone
    • Nov 2, 2018
    • 5 min

    "What I learned on the Colorado Trail" (Advice for My Future Self or Others)

    1) Trail towns are not necessarily your friend. *They are sirens. They too easily become places of temptation and sloth. Do not give into...
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    “What is a Thru Hike?”
    Brandon A. Kelone
    • Oct 2, 2018
    • 9 min

    “What is a Thru Hike?”

    Looking back on it now, I think that it’s funny that I was in the act of thru hiking when I first heard the term “thru hike.” I didn’t...
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    The Colorado Trail: Day 26
    Brandon A. Kelone
    • Sep 25, 2018
    • 5 min

    The Colorado Trail: Day 26

    I’ve been here in front of my keyboard now for more than an hour... trying to figure out where to begin... trying to find the right...
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    “Why I Never Smoked Weed on the Colorado Trail”
    Brandon A. Kelone
    • Sep 2, 2018
    • 13 min

    “Why I Never Smoked Weed on the Colorado Trail”

    If I had known that we were going to have to pass through a border patrol check point, I would have told my ride to take a different...
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    The Colorado Trail: Day 25
    Brandon A. Kelone
    • Aug 22, 2018
    • 7 min

    The Colorado Trail: Day 25

    It’s quite hard for me to know what to say anymore. How do you put words to an experience as profound as this? What is there to say when...
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    The Colorado Trail: Day 24
    Brandon A. Kelone
    • Aug 21, 2018
    • 4 min

    The Colorado Trail: Day 24

    Oh how it rained today. It rained and it rained and it rained and it rained. And when it finally came to a stop, it was only so that the...
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    The Colorado Trail: Day 23
    Brandon A. Kelone
    • Aug 20, 2018
    • 6 min

    The Colorado Trail: Day 23

    In a way I feel bad that I spent so much time in the preceding days dwelling on the impending end of this hike. I look back on those...
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    The Colorado Trail: Day 22
    Brandon A. Kelone
    • Aug 19, 2018
    • 4 min

    The Colorado Trail: Day 22

    Several years ago I was making plans to marry the woman with whom I’d been in love for the better part of four years. We had a dog...
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    The Colorado Trail: Day 21
    Brandon A. Kelone
    • Aug 18, 2018
    • 6 min

    The Colorado Trail: Day 21

    It rained today. It rained, and it rained, and it rained, and it rained. And then it blew. And then it became cold. It was a hard day on...
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