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…
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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.
Lone Wolves and Trail Families – social dynamics on long distance trails
From solo Lone Wolf hikers to Caravans of a dozen, I discuss social dynamics on long distance trails.
PCT Hiking by the numbers
Now that I’m off trail and home for a bit, I’ve been doing some thinking about the trip as a whole. People ask me “what was it like?” and I reply, lamely, “awesome.” It’s hard to summarize or boil the experience down in a way that doesn’t trivialize it, but I’m going to try. Since…