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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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    “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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