About 20 percent more people are storing their food in their tent with them than in the recommended bear cans.

Betty Kellenberger’s fascination with the Appalachian Trail began in elementary school, when she first read about the ...

Not all dreams deferred shrivel and fade in the sun—some snowball through the decades to explode in a beautiful realization. At least that’s the case for many hikers who pursue their long-trail dreams ...

Hiking the Appalachian Trail has changed a bit in the last 3 1/2 decades, but it is still worth every blister. Right about now, the first wave of Appalachian Trail thru-hikers are headed north from ...

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Each year, only about one out of every four hikers who set out to complete the Appalachian Trail reaches that goal. A thru-hike means traversing nearly 2,200 miles, across 14 states, in a single ...

This was supposed to be fun—or at least, that’s how I pitched it to my hiking companion, MacGyver, who I’d met while trekking the Pacific Crest Trail. I spent two years working on a guidebook for the ...

After Kevin Silvernale finished thru-hiking the Pacific Crest Trail (PCT) in 2016, he was hooked and started devising his own long-distance trail. The 34-year-old Colorado local went on to hike the ...