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 life of relative ease a...

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 rumors about him from oth...

Thru hiking changes your priorities. Thru hiking reminds you that water is more important than money, that food is more important than fashion, and that shel...

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 trail this year. By ...

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. Rather, there’s an e...

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 Colorado Trail. Mostl...

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 the case for them as w...

1) Trail towns are not necessarily your friend. *They are sirens. They too easily become places of temptation and sloth. Do not give into the temptation. Get...

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 know what it meant, an...

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 route. But the thought n...