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The Garden State
After twelve hours of travel by bus, train, and car, I finally arrived in the small town of Blairstown, New Jersey, to start my three-week backpacking trip on the Appalachian Trail. The hike’s main...
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Final Preparations for the Hike
The plane leaves in less than three days, and I’m barely ready for it. The a past few weeks have been a blur of loading food drops, gathering backpacking gear, fixing app bugs, traveling back and forth...
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Trail Days: The Horror, The Horror
I didn’t really plan to go to Trail Days this year, but the timing of my hike put me right in the middle of it. This was my second Trail Days (the first being in 2008, the year after my through-hike),...
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Southern Virginia AT Mapping
When Joe and I left Damascus, we started into the Mount Rogers National Recreation Area, one of the busiest parts of the AT in the south. It was an early spring weekend, Trail Days was happening just a...
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Central Virginia App Mapping
After a day off in Roanoke, I was doing much better than when I’d arrived. My aching and blistered feet were well rested. I had a new pair of sneakers, purchased at the wonderful Walkabout Outfitters...
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High and Low in Shenandoah National Park
From my 2007 through-hike of the Appalachian Trail, I have only two memories of Shenandoah National Park: that it was easy hiking, and that it was fairly boring. This time through, I wasn’t so excited...
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Wrapping Up the Virginia Hike
Duff, Trigger, and I left Front Royal after a half day at the Quality Inn, drying out and recovering from the nasty conditions of the previous day. I’m always amazed at how quickly the body can heal...
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Gossamer Gear Trail Ambassadors Utah Adventures
Last week, I joined a group of Gossamer Gear’s Trail Ambassadors for a retreat to the canyons of southeast Utah. Many of these Trail Ambassadors are currently schmoozing it up at the Outdoor Retailer...
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Sangre de Cristo Backpacking, 7/15-19/16
Only a day after arriving in Colorado, coming from sea level, I was up above 9000 feet and wouldn’t come back down to a reasonable elevation for the next five days. Hiker Box, whom I’d hiked with in...
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Wind River Peak, 8/8/16
After finishing the NOLS course in the Wind River Range, I went right back out into the mountains for a short trip with a college friend to climb a peak we had passed by on the course. Wind River Peak,...
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