As it always is nearly everywhere in the US, it was a cold morning. I moved quickly and had everything packed and was moving. Just like...

Once again I could not realize the full potential of a bed in the Laughing Heart Hostel. So after laying there all morning I finally made...

It wasn’t necessarily a good night sleep in the Standing Bear Hostel. But I was protected by Sylvester the cat who was protecting me from...

Let me start with saying my wishful thinking that it would not freeze last night was misguided and caused me multiple problems in not...

The good news is that the temperature finally warmed up. It might not even get to freezing tonight. The bad news is the strongest wind...

Things I didn’t see today: the sun, people, wildlife, the trail. What I did see was snow and a very thick cloud that hung overhead all...

Imagine it snows over a foot in the last few days and the conditions would be perfect for skiing. You drive up to the mountain but...

It’s never a good sign when you pick up your wet socks from the previous day and they are rock hard. So frozen you could use them as a...

I will keep this one relatively short as I am very exhausted. I trudged through anywhere from 6-10 inches of snow all morning, and it...

I woke up with a thin sheet of ice covering my sleeping bag. I would later learn the overnight temperature was around 0. I put on...

I woke up with my new four fellow hiking friends covered in snow. Our shelter with a makeshift tarp had failed on the edges and since I...

I woke up in the cold and was on the trail by 8. Everyday the temperature has seemed to drop even more. The projection is single digits...

The morning was cold, windy and uninviting. I made the mistake of not checking my maps before going to bed and the two towns I was...

Today I begin my trip out into the great unknown. As I sit in the Portland airport for the first of two flights, I am just hoping that my...

The term seems to have found its way in to common lingo between the popularization from the book and movie “Wild” about thru-hiking the...