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Gear Review: Native Eyewear Penrose Sunglasses
To all of my narrow-faced friends out there: tired of your sunglasses sticking out from your face like a cartoon character? The Penrose polarized
Gear Review: CW-X Revolution Tights & Versatx Running Bra
CW-X Revolution Compression Tights MSRP: $200 When I first squeezed myself into these next-level running tights, I felt like a high school
10 Sort-Of Motivational Quotes to Get You Through Bad Days on the Trail
Everyone has bad days on the trailsome people more than others. Collectively, Rocky and I had around 600 miles of bad days between us. Unless you
How to Save Money DURING Your Thru-Hike
Weve published a lot of posts on AppTrials about how to save money before your hike. It's true that starting with a Ziploc full of $$$ is a great
Three-Ingredient Backpacking Meals
...For When You Hate Everything in Your Food Bag The first few hundred miles of your hike will be a blissful, face-stuffing party of Snickers and
Looking Back: 8 Events that Shook the AT in 2015
2015 was undoubtedly a landmark year for the Appalachian Trail. Here are the eight biggest news stories from the Trail this year. 1) Bismarck
Why Relationships are Easier on the AT
If I had a dollar for every time a well-meaning individual gazed at Rocky and I, saying: If you two survived the Appalachian Trail, you can survive
10 Thru-Hikers Share Gear Favorites and Follies
Neels Gap sends home thousands of pounds of unwanted gear every thru-hiking season. While this number is huge, if you take a look at the giddy
19 Disgusting, Degrading, and/or Hilarious Real-Life Hiker Trash Stories
The astounding number of responses to our hiker trash request fell entirely into two categories: Sleeping somewhere inappropriate, or eating
Honey Badger and Hare’s Before & After Gear
I recently posted a semi-embarrassing photo of my before-and-after AT pack, and some people wanted to know what changes were. So here it is. I