Thru-Hiking Culture
This Weeks Top Instagram Posts from the #ContinentalDivideTrail
Welcome to our weekly roundup where we carefully select and showcase the most impressive, hilarious, and all-around epic photos taken on the Continental Divide Trail. Use the hashtag #CDT,
Congrats to These 2018 Appalachian Trail Thru-Hikers! (Week of Sep. 7)
We're in the thick of September AND summit season! A huge round of applause for these brand-spanking-new thru-hikers! Whether youre going northbound, southbound, or flip-flopping, we want to
Surviving the End of a Trail Relationship
When does a trail relationship actually end? Is it the moment you step off the path where the two of you had been walking side by side for a thousand miles?...
Congrats to These 2018 Appalachian Trail Thru-Hikers! (Week of Sep. 4 )
It's September and we're in the thick of summit season. A huge round of applause for these brand-spanking-new thru-hikers! Whether youre going northbound, southbound, or flip-flopping, we want to
Q&A with Elsye “Chardonnay” Walker: Likely the First Black, Female Triple Crowner
The ATC, the PCTA, the CDTC and the ALDHA-Westthe organizations that oversee the long-distance trails we adoredon't recognize any qualifier in front of the term "thru-hike." They also don't
This Weeks Top Instagram Posts from the #PacificCrestTrail
Welcome to our weekly roundup where we carefully select and showcase the most impressive, hilarious, and all-around epic photos taken on the Pacific Crest Trail. Use the hashtag
Getting Lost When You Least Expect it
The trailhead for my morning pick-up was a four-mile walk from where I made camp for the night. Getting lost wasn't on my mindthe Oregon woods were home to me,...
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
Anonymous Hiker Poop Stories [Part 2]
A few weeks ago we put out a call for backpacking poop stories shared anonymously, the idea being that anyone that had ever spent an extended period of time in...
Conquering A Granite Goliath: A 5-Minute Film of Mount Whitney That’ll Take Your Breath Away
"On June 2nd, 2018, four friends, Jason Forman, Mike Goubeaux, Brent Kiser, and I drove up to the Whitney Portal and began to prepare to summit Mt. Whitney two days...