Etsy Holiday Gift Guide for Hiking Enthusiasts
It’s no secret that Chica and love supporting individual artists and small business owners. Some of the gear used on the Appalachian Trail and our Camino de Santiago hike were hand made by seamstresses with Etsy stores. For this holiday season we have created a guide...
ULA Photon Backpack Review
Planes, Trains, Automobiles ... and Feet Chica and I just returned from an incredible adventure and I used a new piece of gear that I want to talk about: the ULA Photon Backpack. Our 50-day trip to Europe started on an Amtrak train that shuttled us from central...
Camino de Santiago Gear List
Below are two complete Camino de Santiago gear lists, one for the men and one for the women. While walking the Appalachian Trail Chica and I dreamed up the next adventure. We both agreed a trip to Spain to walk the 500 mile pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela would...
Transitioning From a Thru-Hike Back to Normal Life
Please welcome Philip Sheehy (trail name: Homebound) who is guest posting with us today about reintegration to normal life upon finishing his thru-hike of the Appalachian Trail. Homebound is a 22 year old from New Hampshire. He recently graduated college a semester...
How the Appalachian Trail Wrecked My Life
Please welcome Stacia who is guest posting with us today. Stacia grew up on a farm in the southern-most part of Georgia and was bitten by the outdoorsy bug at a young age, often playing in the woods on her family’s property for hours at a time. But it wasn’t until...
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 – The Book
“I think this book is worth 10 Appalachian Trail memoirs.” ~ Evan “eWolf” Schaeffer – Evan’s Backpacking Videos (YouTube) Thru-Hiking the Appalachian Trail is the perfect guidebook for someone wanting to hike the AT. The book touches on just about everything you...
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...