The first 150 miles are just training for the last 120. Or, as 3 high-octane SOBO hikers told me atop Stark’s Nest, “you’re getting into The Shit”. Part of me thinks, “bring it on”, while the other part starts the perpetual chess-game calculations of miles per hour, miles per day, and food carrying capacity. It’s…
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LT7 – Inn at The Long Trail – 104
Long Trail hike week 1.
Blue Hills End2End2End
To celebrate the beginning of Summer, and to take advantage of the long days, I drove up to Massachusetts to knock off a long-held goal of mine, a traverse, and back, of the Blue Hills park. Map is here. The Blue Hills are a 7000 acre preserve just outside Boston, in fact, for much of…
PCT Highlight Reel
8-plus minute highlight reel from my 2018 thruhike.
Five Bad Days on the PCT and How I Got Through Them
I talk about five bad days I had while hiking the PCT. Instead of bragging about how everything was great, here’s a dose of reality.