La Sportiva Wildcat Review
Trail runners have replaced traditional boots as the preferred footwear for an Appalachian Trail thru-hike. I chose La Sportiva Wildcats for our 2,200 mile journey and this is my La Sportiva Wildcat review. Before making the firm decision of thru-hiking in trail...
5 Ways to beat the heat on an AT thru-hike
The Appalachian Trail is famous for its Green Tunnel and one might think with all that shade, sun, and heat are not a problem, one would be wrong. Avoiding hot days on a long-distance backpacking trip is near impossible and over the course of six months and 2,200...
20 Hiking Quotes for Motivation, Inspiration, and Wisdom
In only one or two lines of concise language, quotes can convey humor, stoke our motivation, cause a sentimental sigh, and inspire greatness. The following 20 hiking quotes will make you smile, motivate you to get off the couch, and mentally fuel your next trek. Go...
THRU-HIKING THE APPALACHIAN TRAIL
Thru-Hiking the Appalachian Trail is the perfect guidebook for someone wanting to hike the AT. The book touches on just about...
How much does it cost to hike the Appalachian Trail?
Failing to plan is planning to fail Once we decided we were going to attempt a thru-hike of the AT our very first planning question we asked ourselves was what is the cost to hike the appalachian trail? The problem was the answers we found were platitudinous. We found...
Snakes on the Appalachian Trail
Overall, Chica and I were surprised by the number of animals we saw during our 6-months on the Appalachian Trail. Maybe it’s because we hiked as a couple and were not very stealthy, but we just didn’t see that many, especially mammals. Four bears, two moose, a few...
5 Women-Specific Gear Hiking Choices
Follow my blog with Bloglovin I loved being a woman thru-hiking the Appalachian Trail last year. Yes, I was with my husband, and that was epic, but I didn’t let that take away from the pride I had for myself as a woman. When I was young, and I first heard of the...
A Walk for Sunshine – excerpt
If you are like me consuming hiking books is like eating after you have been on the trail for a month ... you read everything you can get your hands on. Today we provide you with an excerpt from A Walk for Sunshine, Jeff Alt's memoir of thru-hiking the Appalachian...
5 Brilliant Gear Solutions for Long-Distant Hikers
Gear, gear, gear. It’s easy to get bogged down in the minutia of gear stats when outfitting a long-distance hike. Weight, size, material, multi-use’ness, cost, it seems an unending process to choose what is best. Today’s list is 5 items that can be easily left out,...
Five Free Resources For The AT Thru-Hiker
Some of the resources that a thru-hiker needs or wants are available for free in various formats. Here are my 5 favorites. 1) GPS and in-phone maps: The Hiker Bot app is a free tool that can take the place of Guthooks. Sadly, it is not yet available for Apple...
Life Outside the Cubicle + GIVEAWAY!
UPDATE: This GIVEAWAY is now closed. Winners are: Stephanie and Melissa, you will be contacted by email for your signed copy of "Life Outside the Cubicle!" Did we really thru-hike the Appalachian Trail? It seems like all a dream now – a really, really good dream....
5 Lies Appalachian Trail Thru Hikers Tell
Most Appalachian Trail thru-hikers start the trail as a neophyte and end it as an expert. Along the way they learn that some of the things they had been told about the trail just aren't true. These are five of those things for us. 1. Virginia is easy/flat Before we...