The Head Game
Training for endurance events is hard. As I train for the Pacific Crest Trail, there are many days where “I don’t wanna” is my mantra. It…
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Goodbye Employment, Hello Trail
We are three weeks away from stopping work, which makes us just four weeks away from walking forever (well, five months seems like forever)….
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Pacific Crest Trail Gear List
After months of research, trial and error, and anally weighing things, we finally have our Pacific Crest Trail gear list! And with only 31…
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Why the Pacific Crest Trail?
I’ve been trying to put the words together for this blog for weeks. The reasons I come up with are mostly a jumble of…
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Why I Am Thru Hiking the Pacific Crest Trail
I have a really lovely life — a life that based on my previous trajectory, I would never have imagined for myself. I know…
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Pacific Crest Trail: Fears
As you probably know, Avry and I are getting ready to launch off into the great unknown. We are 44 days away from our…
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Finding Your Pace
In August, my boyfriend James and I decided to hike the state of Oregon via the PCT. This section of the trail runs 460…
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Why Not Now?
I have a terrible memory, a foggy sense of the future, and am engrossed in a staring match with death from which I simply can’t…
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How to Train for the Pacific Crest Trail
I have been frantically reading blogs, forums, and Facebook feeds in preparation for taking off on the Pacific Crest Trail in less than four…
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6 Adventurous Instagrammers to Follow
Instagram’s launch in 2010 completely changed the game — it allowed adventurers to share shots of their epics in real time. An average of 60…
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8 Ways to Move More Every Day
Science tells us that our 40+ hour desk job is killing us. As a writer, I certainly notice that when I’m sitting at a…
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Silence
Only by going alone in silence, without baggage, can one truly get into the heart of the wilderness. All other travel is mere dust…
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