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How to Get Your Thru-Hiking Triple Crown Award

How to Get Your Thru-Hiking Triple Crown Award

The Triple Crown is thru-hiking’s most coveted award. Only awarded to those bold enough to complete the Pacific Crest Trail, Continental Divide Trail, and Appalachian Trail, it’s an honor bestowed upon only those with the maximum amount of time to devote to walking across the United States and pooping in holes. But simply walking the length of the United States three times isn’t quite enough to…

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I Quit the Pacific Crest Trail - Best Decision Ever?

I Quit the Pacific Crest Trail – Best Decision Ever?

Earlier this year, I began my second thru-hike of the Pacific Crest Trail. Earlier this year, I prematurely ended my second thru-hike of the Pacific Crest Trail after nearly 1,000 mi / 1,600 km of walking northbound through California from the US-Mexico border.

And if I’m being honest, I am quite pleased with my decision to do so.

So what happened? Obviously, I knew what I was getting myself into…

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Complete and Final Pacific Crest Trail Gear List (Round Two)

Complete and Final Pacific Crest Trail Gear List (Round Two)

A Pacific Crest Trail thru-hiker’s gear list can more or less define them out on the trail. Typically, what “you before the trail” thinks will be best for “you on the trail” don’t perfectly align and tweaks are made over the course of the hike to accommodate the newly-found you out on the trail. This was true on my first PCT thru-hike, and it was true on my second PCT thru-hike.

Here’s my…

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PCT, AT, and CDT Illustrations by First Row

PCT, AT, and CDT Illustrations by First Row

So you’ve completed your life’s greatest accomplishment and, being that we live in the future, you have been forever immortalized via photo at the end of your grand adventure. But what’s that? Your hiking partner and trusted companion sucks at taking pictures? Did you finally make it to the other end of the United States and the weather was shit so you couldn’t get that “perfect monument photo”.…

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