From the Start

Journal excerpts from my first two months thru hiking the Appalachian Trail.

From the Start: Appalachian Trail Journals

Journal excerpts from my first two months thru hiking the Appalachian Trail.

Life on the Trail

A description of my daily routines while thru hiking the Appalachian Trail.

Daily Life on the Appalachian Trail

A description of my daily routines while thru hiking the Appalachian Trail.

Success

Last Thursday, September 7th, I summited Mt. Katahdin in Baxter State Park and completed my northbound Appalachian Trail thru hike. The 2189 mile trail took me through Georgia, North Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Vermont, New Hampshire, and Maine. The hike took me exactly 24 weeks, about 5.5 […]

Two Weeks and Counting

I start my Appalachian Trail thru hike in 16 days. What an insane sentence to write. If you told me a year ago that this was the next chapter of my life, my mind would be blown. In the winter of 2016, I moved across the country to California to support my then-husband during his […]