• AT Day 185: One Hundred Miles to Summit

    It’s been a hot minute or three since I’ve emailed you. It would be easy to assume, as with previous updates, I’ve been to busy walking to get my thoughts together. At...

  • AT Day 177: Difficult Trail and Difficult Decisions

    The transition to living on the trail was gradual, from all the expectations of a new adventure, starting like a long backpacking trip, growing to a way of life, then so routine...

  • AT Day 159: Return of the Climb

    The way passing time and miles are so bound on the trail is most evident to me at its ends. It was a slow, proud, backwards-looking crawl at the beginning, asking “How...

  • AT Day 140: New Jersey - New York - New England

    Leaving Pennsylvania felt like closing a long chapter of the hike, and crossing into New Jersey turned out to be the start of a series of pleasant surprises. Pennsylvania was overall pretty...