Two Thousand Miles

Three years ago I met my first thruhiker. He said, "if you need to figure something out, hike the trail. By the time you are finished you...

Hiking is all about numbers... number of miles, number of hills, number of days of food left, number of pounds on my back, number of...

I am not like many thruhikers. A lot of them say thruhiking is the hardest thing they have ever done. Many admit they didn't think they...

Post Trail Depression is a real thing, and although I would not consider myself to have it, I can understand why former hikers fall into...

Firefly and I really wanted to beat the crowds, even if it meant getting up obnoxiously early, so at 4:30am we crawled out of the...

The 100 Mile Wilderness is the last stretch of trail that leads to Baxter State Park and Mount Katahdin, the Northern Terminus of the...