Thru-Hiking Culture
This Weeks Top Instagram Posts from the #AppalachianTrail
Welcome to our weekly roundup of the most spectacularly beautiful, hilariously entertaining, and all-around best photos taken on the Appalachian Trail this past week. This week featured photos
Trail Angel Spotlight: Red Hat
For many hikers who are nearing the northeastern boundary of Great Smoky Mountains National Park, not only might you be stalked by bears along the way, but, if you are...
The Thru-Hike Was Hard, But not Hiking Is Harder
The following is a guest post by Carolyn Walker I finished my NOBO thru-hike a week ago today. It took 5½ months, which is very average, according to a chart...
Congrats to These 2018 Appalachian Trail Thru-Hikers! (Week of Aug. 6)
It's officially August and summit season is underway. A huge round of applause for these brand-spanking-new thru-hikers! Whether youre going northbound, southbound, or flip-flopping, we want to
Stories From The Trail Ep. 15 – Still Got Most Of It Left with Odie
Matthew "Odie" Norman is best known on the AT as the bus-dwelling, shaggy-faced creator of the Hiker Yearbook, an old-school hardback annual publication packed with history, photos, and
This Weeks Top Instagram Posts from the #AppalachianTrail
Welcome to our weekly roundup of the most spectacularly beautiful, hilariously entertaining, and all-around best photos taken on the Appalachian Trail this past week. This week featured photos
Epic Floods, Food, and Towns Through Pennsylvania
Rocksylvania, you're more like Rainsylvania. Pennsylvania had been looming in the future of this historic trail, having a reputation for being the most challenging state for many reasons. As
Hiking with History on the Appalachian Trail: Civil War Corridor, Part 1
Any understanding of this nation has to be based, and I mean really based, on an understanding of the Civil War... It was the crossroads of our being, and it...
The Challenges and Benefits of Seeking Solitude on the Social Trail
This friendship is a little different. You've hiked more miles together than days you've known each other, pushed through torrential downpours and blistering heat waves, chaffed and stumbled and
The Appalachian Trail Needs You (and Your Sweat)
Volunteer maintainers are "graying out" and nobodys replacing them. It took more than 1,600 miles of walking on the Appalachian Trail before it struck me how important volunteers are to...