It’s outrageous, but planning a 2,100 mile hike along the Appalachian Trail is easier than most things that you do. Step 1: Buy the AT Guide: I recommend getting it loose-leaf. Take out the first quarter, give the rest to a friend to mail to you when you need it. Step 2: Buy a plane [...]
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Planning an Appalachian Trail Thru Hike is easier than doing one.
Posted in Appalachian Trail, Backpacking, tagged Appalachian Trail, backpacking, thruhike, thruhiking, triple crown, ultralight backpacking, ultralight backpacking gear on March 8, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Pacific Crest Trail Video
Posted in Backpacking, Pacific Crest Trail, tagged backpacking, gear, pacific crest trail, pct, thruhike, thruhiking, triple crown, ultralight backpacking, ultralight backpacking gear on March 4, 2011 | 1 Comment »
In 2006, I walked the Pacific Crest Trail. It was hot dang wonderful. Since then, I’ve found myself building a sizable collection of videos on youtube. I thought that I should revisit my PCT hike, since I had little visual documentation of it (an epic tomb of words can be found on this journal.) It [...]
Six Moon Designs = no longer Made in the USA
Posted in Backpacking, tagged backpacking, gear, six moon designs, smd, ultralight, ultralight backpacking, ultralight backpacking gear on February 9, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Six Moon Designs is moving their production overseas. Hopefully their stuff won’t fall apart so easily in the future…. “Six Moon Designs has been in business for 10 years and all of our manufacturing is US based. We’ve been fortunate to secure a good US production source with reasonable rates and excellent quality. However, we’ve [...]
Planning a thruhike on the Continental Divide Trail
Posted in Backpacking, Continental Divide Trail, Gear, tagged adventure, Backpacker Magazine, backpacking, cdt, continental divide trail, gear, thruhike, thruhiking, triple crown, ultralight, ultralight backpacking, ultralight backpacking gear, wilderness on February 3, 2011 | 1 Comment »
What follows are my thoughts on the CDT. I wrote this for submission in Yogi’s CDT Handbook. The wording and formatting may be awkward. It was written in response to questions that I have deleted from this text. Questions? Please leave a comment! NAVIGATION Many CDTers also don’t know squat about navigation. But that doesn’t [...]
Mapping the CDT
Posted in Backpacking, Continental Divide Trail, tagged Backpacker Magazine, backpacking, cdt, continental divide trail, thruhike, thruhiking, triple crown, ultralight backpacking on January 26, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
I’m finally in Boulder, CO mapping the CDT. It’s really quite nice to be sitting in front of a computer for a week. A snip of the behind the scenes workings of Backpacker Magazine has been educational. Quality work, I say.
Wool hiking clothing
Posted in Backpacking, tagged backpacking, thruhike, thruhiking, triple crown, ultralight backpacking on December 25, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
I’ve been thinking about hiking clothing a good bit recently. I’ve got a ton of it. And so much of it is worn out. The stuff I wore on the PCT is ruined. The sleeves on the tshirt ripped off, the shorts are extremely faded and the elastic is shot. My CDT clothing is ruined. [...]
The Crazy Cook Route on the CDT
Posted in Continental Divide Trail, tagged backpacking, cdt, continental divide trail, thruhike, thruhiking, triple crown, ultralight backpacking on December 24, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Lordsburg. It’s dumpy. Lordsburg, where I settled into two hotel rooms before realizing that they were unacceptably filty, bug infested, and broken. Lordsburg, where there really wasn’t anything going on. Lordsburg, where the dump of a chinese restaurant, turned out to be delicious. We’d hemmed and hawed about even going in. We *knew* it’d be [...]
Hiking in Silver City, NM
Posted in Continental Divide Trail, tagged backpacking, cdt, continental divide trail, thruhike, thruhiking, triple crown, ultralight backpacking on December 24, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Left Silver City on a road walk. I continue to not be a fan of road walking. Sure, sometimes it’s nice to have easy going miles on a quite, unused jeep road. You can walk side by side. You can switch sides when to walk on smoother tread. You can shut your mind off and [...]
The Gila River on the CDT
Posted in Continental Divide Trail, tagged backpacking, cdt, continental divide trail, thruhike, thruhiking, triple crown, ultralight backpacking on December 24, 2010 | 1 Comment »
This section has been both full and fullfilling. It’s intimidating to start this journal entry, I feel like I’ve done so much since Pie Town. I’ll start with the beginning. It was a road walk out of Pie Town. Lost, Stretch and I made decent time along the mostly flat, little used dirt road. The [...]
The Toaster House in Pie Town, NM
Posted in Continental Divide Trail, tagged backpacking, cdt, continental divide trail, thruhike, thruhiking, triple crown, ultralight backpacking on December 24, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
I’m in Pie Town at the Toaster House. This awesome reality is eclipsing the past few days. But first, the past. It’s been a nearly continuous road walk since the malpais. A little on the highway brought us to a large arch. From there we scurried crosscountry up a mesa to walk a little up [...]
