Day #: 52 Miles Since Last Update: 46 mi. Total Miles Hiked: 731 mi. Miles Remaining: 1,467 mi. This post can originally be found here, on The Trek The Lookout Shelter Thanks to the fun events of the previous day, a group of us hikers headed out from Rutland all with the goal to meet up again at The Lookout Shelter on trail that night (The Lookout Shelter is really cool, it is an unofficial AT shelter on private land but the owner allows hikers to use the cabin, and it has an upper deck platform where one can watch stunning sunrises and sunsets, or in our case, Lizard almost…

For fun, I decided to start calculating how much the trail has cost me thus far, and while these are calculations I made on the back of scratch paper in a public library (and this, there is definitely human error in them and I rounded them to the closest $5), it is still eye opening. As you can see, the primary costs on the trail for me so far have been gear, food, and travel. I have tried saving money by avoiding hotels/hostels as much as possible and staying with Trail angels, doing work-for-stay, or simply camping on trail, but things still can really add up! As a result, I…

Day #: 49 Miles Since Last Update: 46 mi. Total Miles Hiked: 731 mi. Miles Remaining: 1,467 mi. This post can originally be found here, on The Trek The Yellow Deli The Yellow Deli is, as it sounds, a deli. But it is also much more than that. It is famous amongst AT thru-hikers because of its reputation for delicious food, the hostel space attached to the deli which is donation based (allowing those of us with tighter budgets to still experience a great place to stay), and lastly, because it is run by a religious organization known as The Twelve Tribes, which some organizations have classified as a cult.…

This post can originally be found on The Trek.Hello all. Is been a while, hasn’t it? Sorry about that. I promise I never forgot about you. In brief, the reason for my delay in posting is mostly due to the fact that as soon as I finished Vermont (and thus had the information I needed to write this post), I came town with COVID. In fact, a wave of it ran through the thru-hiking community and knocked a whole lot of us off the trail for some time. Then, as soon as I was recovered, I hiked off into New Hampshire… which… as some of you are aware, is where…

Wrapping up my time in MA with a change in hiking shoes, more cookies, a chance to bike between towns, and climb the highest peak in the state.

The rain is starting to get to me... but dotted within the misery of the rain have been some truly memorable people and experiences!

Day #: 36 Miles Since Last Update: 38 mi. Total Miles Hiked: 467 mi. Miles Remaining: 1,711 mi. Connecticut was a short, and tumultuous time in my AT life. As you can see from the title of this post, I spent a short amount of time in this state, and my experience in this short time was quite varied. Connecticut was the start of a few things for me. Also, I realized while writing this post that I never informed you all, but I have stuck to a trail name now for over 100 miles! Maybe it will stick with me for all the rest of the AT too! Ironically,…

I previously wrote on the great experience I had in getting to, spending time with, and leaving my friend in New Haven, CT. Well only a few days later I was blessed again with an amazing off-trail experience. A few years back (more years than I’d like to admit), I studied abroad in Edinburgh, Scotland. There, I chose to live in the student dorms to get more a “fuller exchange experience”. I was randomly assigned a roommate, from American University, named Michaela. Michaela and I not only became friends quickly, but we stayed friends throughout and after the study abroad (you may recall that she is one of the friends…

New York was a blast! From Deli-Blazing, the Lemon Squeezer (and other tricky climbs), The Trailside Zoo (yes! a Zoo! you read that right), and some absolutely gorgeous views along Bear Mountain!