It isn’t that hard to find them in town. Thru-hikers are predictable — more animal-like in behavior than town and city folk. Burger stands are typical spotting grounds. Any cheap motel with the door ...

Thru hiking backpacks are made for those who embark on multi-day hikes on long trails like the Appalachian Trail (AT) or the Pacific Crest Trail (PCT). For thru hikers, a reliable pack that is light, ...

In September, Garmire blazed through the Appalachian Trail in just over 45 days, shaving 4 hours off one of the trail's eight-year-old self-supported record. He breaks down the gear he carried to do ...

Each spring, eager northbound thru-hikers arrive at the small town of Campo on the United States-Mexico border in Southern California. By now, they’ve likely weighed, tested, and packed each piece of ...

Genius, at least, had come by his ironic trail name honestly: He did not know what he was doing, or that there was a smarter way to do it. Some 500 miles into his northbound thru-hike of the ...

It had been three weeks of pre-dawn miles on the Appalachian Trail and all Matt Walsh could find were empty tracks. “That was one of my goals for the trail, to see a moose,” he says. “I was getting up ...