4+ hour, 21+ min ago  (443+ words) I'm back in a forest with real dirt on the ground- how exciting! It's wet from the night's storm and quickly collects on my shoes. It's like walking with weights attached to each leg and no amount of scraping or…...

5+ day, 9+ hour ago  (330+ words) That night we camped under a beautiful tree a few miles out from town. We had no tent mishaps and both got a decent night's sleep. That next morning we got to see eagle rock, a famous point of interest…...

5+ day, 17+ hour ago  (931+ words) This is a sponsored post brought to you by RVshare. You can get $75 off when you spend $700 or more on bookings at RVshare. com now through 9/30/26 (excluding insurance, tax, fees, and upgrades). I'm here to make an argument for the…...

6+ day, 2+ hour ago  (1434+ words) Day 1: 24. 49 miles (39. 4 km), 4868 ft of gain Day 2: 24. 52 miles (39. 5 km), 3487 ft of gain Day 3: 22. 32 miles (35. 9 km), 3166 ft of gain Day 4: 24. 09 miles (38. 8 km), 2952 ft of gain Day 5: 17. 05 miles (27. 4 km), 1843 ft of gain, town day Day 6: 30. 60 miles (49. 2 km), 4307 ft of gain Day 7: 28. 04 miles…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago  (355+ words) Often described as the "choose your own adventure" trail, the CDT offers a litany of alternate routes that deviate from the official red line route. "A reasonable first step in planning a state is to choose which alternates you're interested…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago  (187+ words) Under the Juniper Tree Dead. A corpse in repose. Asleep to the world. This is how my first Trail Angel found me. It had been blessedly cool that morning in Sunnyside Canyon, cool enough to cause me to feel the…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago  (784+ words) Hi, I'm Jeffry Leonard, a full time traveling nurse currently studying to become a nurse practitioner. And this is the story of how a dozen strangers saw my bare ass in the California desert and accidentally named me for life....

3+ week, 4+ day ago  (1046+ words) Arches to Needles Outpost (Hayduke Sections 12) Our friend Alec dropped us at the northern boundary of Arches National Park, where the Hayduke starts and immediately disappears into the vast desert. Within minutes the pavement disappeared and we were moving across…...

3+ week, 6+ day ago  (250+ words) My shuttle, Finding True North, dropped me and 4 other hikers off at Montezuma's Pass just before 0730. The owner rescheduled our departure for 2 hours earlier as a record heat wave was set to begin. I was glad for an earlier start…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago  (1866+ words) When I did the Pacific Crest Trail as my first thru-hike, my reasons "why" were easy to come up with. I wanted to prove to myself that I could do it, that I could stick out something really hard, that…...