Food Anxiety: Miscalculations and Rationing
When I resupply, I look at how many miles I need to hike until my next stop and what the terrain is like to determine how many days' worth of...
Thru-Hiker Scribe
Food Anxiety: Miscalculations and Rationing
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Pristine Lakes & Other Finds on the CDT
Sometimes you find a beautiful spot but your tent doesn't quite fit. In this case, I just couldn't pass it up and wedged my tent in anyway. This beautiful lake...
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Notes on the Basin
After hiking through Glacier National Park, the Bob Marshall Wilderness, the Pintler Wilderness, Yellowstone National Park, the Wind River range and countless other breathtaking locations with epic vistas and natural...
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Scribe's Daily Warmup
With any sport or activity, it is generally a good idea to warm up your body to prepare it for what is to come and to reduce the chance of...
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Backpacking in Grizzly Country
Grizzly bears are a different story. While they don't necessarily mean you any harm and also would gladly steal your peanut butter and granola tortillas, grizzlies have a reputation to...
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Balancing HYOH and Hiking with Others
Hike Your Own Hike- one of the most commonly spouted bits of advice from hikers to hikers, used both as encouragement and also in leiu of "well, do what do...
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Trail Update: Hiking in High Spirits
I returned to trail refreshed, a full heart and full pack on my back. I embarked on this section alone, as my hiatus had separated me from everyone I had...
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Challenge: Can You Eliminate Single-Use Plastics From a Thru-Hike?
Perhaps with some more time and research, I would be able to find reusable items that do meet my needs, but for now I am sticking with the Smartwater bottles....
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Choose Your Own Adventure: Planning Routes and Taking Alternates on the CDT
I love that this trail allows me to set my own path, for better or worse, and that my trail family and I could all take different routes and then...
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Crossing Into Wyoming: Yellowstone, Old Faithful, and the Grand Tetons
The sun finally reappeared the day I hit the 1,000 mile marker and entered Yellowstone National Park and it stayed out while I wandered the boardwalks with hundreds of tourists...
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Month One Stats
It hasn't all been epic vistas and fields of wildflowers, but this first month certainly has been incredible. I'll be finishing the Montana-Idaho border section soon and then heading into...
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Welcome to Montandaho: Thru Hiking and the General Feeling of Not Knowing Where You Are
The trail sticks to this line relatively well, and the divide is also the geographical boundary between Montana and Idaho for many miles. This means that for hundreds of miles,...
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A Month of Magic in Montana
As I continue south, I am filled with gratitude toward the people of Montana and the trail towns that support the CDT. I am constantly surprised by the ways that...
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Before There Were Thru-Hikers
As thru-hikers, we get to walk through some absolutely incredible places while really bonding with the land. We often feel like we become part of the landscape- we don't feel...
