Thru hike

From keeping your phone charged to lowering your pack weight, these 10 backpacking hacks will make your life on the trail a lot easier.

Many hikers hope their treks will make them better at other sports. Instead, mine kept me from distance running for a year—a common side effect we don't discuss enough.

ou won’t find any of The Big Three items on this list. Instead, these are the things that no one really tells you about, but that can 100% make or break a thru-hike in my humble opinion. I could have saved myself miles of pain and uncomfortableness had I known these little hacks from Day 1 on my first thru-hike. 10 Little Items I Keep in My Pack for Every Thru-Hike 1. Leukotape It’s like a mix between duct tape and KT tape. ...

Hi! In case you didn’t know I will be hiking the PCT summer of 2022 (just a few months from the time this post is published)! ← Insert terrified-excited scream here. Since I am treating this as more of an active online pre-trail journaling log (that’s my complicated way of saying, list of sh*t that […]

What I learned from the mud, the people, and the experience of attempting to thru-hike Vermont's Long Trail.

JMT day 2 photo recap! 🌞🥾🧡⛰️ To witness such beauty in a days time…still seems unreal. 13-14 miles today with an elevation & emotional rollercoaster. This campsite & lake is special to me, as it was somewhere I’d been 4 years ago- on my first ever backpacking trip! Headed up Mt Whitney!🤘🏼💪🏼👏🏻 heyyyyy now look at me, out here thru hiking! :) Living life out, one hard day of hiking at a time🫶🏼 #jmt #guitarlake #californi #mtwhitney #whitneyportal #thruhike #backpackers #thruhiking…

Considering a hike on New Zealand's long trail? This trail guide for Te Araroa will get you started on the right foot.

I figured anyone who's hiked hundreds of miles across the United States would probably have some useful advice, so I asked five Pacific Crest Trail veterans about the most essentials tools in their packs

Can't take 5-7 months to thru-hike the AT, PCT, or other mega-trails? Here are some more manageable thru-hikes that can be completed in under a month.

Whether you’re planning for your first thru-hike or any thru-hike after, there are a few pieces of thru-hiking gear that you need to buy months in advance. It can be frustrating to plan farther ahead, but if you do, you’ll be happy when you start your thru-hike. After 17 thru-hikes, I’ve run the gambit of planning from nothing but getting off the couch to massive spreadsheets. I compiled this list for you, so you don’t get screwed before your hike. Read on to yourself a lot of frustration.