Today I hiked the single hardest mile of this trail but I would not call it walking. In the late morning I arrived at the coveted, feared...

I’m done…walking into new states. The next 6000 miles of hiking I will do this year will all be in states I have already been to. Maine...

Every mountain I climb I withheld the primal need to yell, scream or release my ecstasy because I have become so used to training myself...

The day began with the Coffee fiasco. On my previous long thru hikes I have given up coffee but on this one I took it back up after the...

The hiking today became a lot more than hiking. I climbed up and down multiple 4 and 5 thousand foot peaks with many of the north facing...

Today has some of everything. I am camped in the snow laying on a pad that is too thin and feeling the snow beneath me in the the heart...

Today there was ice. Not just a small section of ice but sheets strewn across the trail that resembled the Arctic. It was like I was...

Pitter, patter, pitter, patter… I woke up and stayed awake to the continual sound of rain on the abandoned shelter I was staying in. I...

Waking up in a real bed in a warm hotel room was nice in many ways. I was able to take another shower, my water wasn’t frozen, and my...

Another morning of weather so cold it hurts to move. It is hard to put in perspective but imagine a morning so cold that after getting...

Waking up in a shelter that was more of a cabin was quite a luxury. It was very rugged but due to the 4 walls and the wood stove it made...

I woke up at 6 in the bitter cold, which seems to be a theme, and rolled over only to see a white blanket laying on the ground. Looks...

We woke up and were on the trail at a decent time climbing up into the green mountains of Vermont. The trail was slushy and soon my shoes...

Massachusetts has not been my state. I have been sick in it, caught in a spring snowstorm, seen temperatures drop to the single digits...

Massachusetts has been hit with a storm that has brought 8-12 inches of snow, single digit temperatures and piercing winds. I am making...

Waking up, I just hoped it would be a more successful day. I had snow to navigate and also undesirable symptoms. The first step was to...

The sickness of last night turned out not to be a one time thing. Nor did Mother Nature exude any sympathy upon me. When I woke up in my...

We woke up in Riga shelter to dreary weather. The wind was howling and the fog was settling in to the mountains. Ahead of us were...

At one point today we came out onto the road for a .5 mile road walk. We saw a mechanic shop with a soda machine out front and were...

It was very refreshing to have someone to hike with after so many miles in solitude. I had now truly reached the front of the heard of...