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  • The Long Haul
  • What Nobody Tells You About Extreme Thru-Hiking
  • Training For The Long Trail

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eugeneweekly.com /1 week ago

The Long Haul

Three long-distance wilderness hikes in or near Oregon will stretch your legs as well as your sense of adventure By Bob Keefer You’ve run the … Continue reading →

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thetrek.co /3 weeks ago

What Nobody Tells You About Extreme Thru-Hiking

In 2025, I hiked 10,070 miles. I started on January 1st in Key West, Florida. The original plan was to complete a border-to-border calendar year Triple Crown: walk from Key West to...

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thetrek.co /1 month ago

Training For The Long Trail

Long Trail Training Shakedown Day 1 04/11/2026 Morning  Today began like any typical Saturday. I woke to my second and final alarm at 04:20. I followed my usual routine of letting...

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thetrek.co /1 month ago

Training For The Long Trail

The Long Trail Training Shakedown #1 It has been a full couple of weeks continuing my training for thru hiking The Long Trail. I have been consistently grinding in the gym to obtai...

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thetrek.co /1 week ago

Training For The Long Trail Continues

Long Trail Shakedown and AT Section Hike I Know I have not had an update in a while, I promise my training continues! For anyone who has thru-hiked the AT or people intimately fami...

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thetrek.co /1 month ago

Training for My 2026 Northville-Placid Trail Thru-Hike

My thru-hike of the Northville-Placid Trail is still five months away, but it was a brutal winter and, now that the snow has melted in Western MA, I’m excited to start training aga...

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thetrek.co /1 month ago

How I’m Training for My PCT Section Hikes Without Living Near the Mountains

Training for PCT section hikes requires re-earning my trail legs before every stretch on trail, especially when I don’t live near the mountains. As I prepare for my biggest PCT yea...

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thetrek.co /1 month ago

Training For My Hikes

Training for 2026 Hiking YVT and CT Out of all the years I’ve wanted to thru hike, this is the only one where I’m actually going to do something, but I feel like there is no need t...

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unofficialnetworks.com /1 month ago

Why Hikers Need More Than Just Zone 2 Aerobic Fitness

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thetrek.co /1 month ago

She’s Hiking 10,000 Miles This Year — Here’s Everything She’s Carrying

This is a sponsored post brought to you by Astral. lready known for becoming the first woman to thru-hike the 5,600-mile Eastern Continental Trail (ECT), Lolo “Sparkle” Veloz has h...

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thetrek.co /1 month ago

200 Miles & a well earned Zero

Zero Day Reflections – Gatlinburg I’m sitting in Gatlinburg on a well-earned zero, looking back on the last 100 miles. I’m getting stronger, and I’ve dropped a few pounds along the...

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thetrek.co /4 days ago

Top 10 Dangerous Stories from Hiking 20k+ Miles

hen I think about the most dangerous encounters I’ve had over my 22,000+ miles of thru-hiking experience, I tend to mentally sort the run-ins into a few categories. I’ve had my fai...

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thetrek.co /1 month ago

Training for the Long Trail

Long Trail Training Shakedown Day 2 4/12/2026 Early Morning  Sleep was touch and go overnight. This I expected, my first night in the woods for the season is usually restless. The...

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thetrek.co /1 month ago

The Brits Figured Out How to Hike

“Well then,” said Pokey-hontus, “you should consider doing inn-to-inn hiking in Europe. Over there, you hike all day, end up at a quaint inn or bed-n-breakfast where you get a priv...

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unofficialnetworks.com /6 days ago

The Colorado Trail: A 567-Mile Legacy Built on Volunteer Grit

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thetrek.co /1 month ago

The Monadnock-Sunapee Greenway Trail – Itinerary and Gear

The Monadnock-Sunapee Greenway Trail In a matter of days, I’ll be starting my thru-hike of the Monadnock-Sunapee Greenway Trail. I’ve slowly ramped up my hiking after a winter of l...

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thetrek.co /1 month ago

Howdy

Starting Too Big Hi there, my name is Chris and I’ll be doing some hiking this year on a couple of trails. The first one is the Yampa Valley Trail up in Northwest Colorado. It stre...

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thetrek.co /3 weeks ago

Why I Hike.

I’m sure some people are curious and asking, “Will he ever get on the CDT?” The answer is yes. I’ve enjoyed reflecting on the past and sharing stories, but I am eager to begin shar...

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thetrek.co /1 month ago

Shakedown Street! A Pre-Trail Update

Never a dull moment.. Early on in January I decided, since I couldn’t take 4-6 months off to hike this year, I’d try to emulate it from home. I’m happiest, physically and mentally,...

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thetrek.co /4 days ago

Ten takeaways from the West Highland Way

Currently on a bus from Fort William to Edinburgh. The weather is glorious, in a way that it wasn’t at any stage on the WHW. In no particular order my post trail thoughts on the WH...

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thetrek.co /1 month ago

Lessons Learned From Budgeting for a 10,000-Mile Thru-Hike

hen I first got into backpacking, I had a really poor idea of exactly what it would cost to be out on trail. Setting out for my first thru-hike in 2017, I had hardly saved up enoug...

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sectionhiker.com /3 weeks ago

Pennine Way England-to-Scotland Backpacking Gear List (2026)

The Pennine Way is the United Kingdom’s oldest hiking trail. It’s about 270 miles long and runs from Edale in England to Kirk Yetholm in Scotland. Time permitting, I may extend the...

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thetrek.co /1 week ago

And Now for Something Completely Different – The C2C

The Coast to Coast Path Last year I blogged on The Trek about my solo backpacking thru-hike of the Blue Mountains Trail in Oregon. This year, I’m doing something completely differe...

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thetrek.co /2 weeks ago

Preparing to Hike the Colorado Trail in 2026

I’m hiking the Colorado Trail this summer. I’m a little anxious, excited, fearful, doubtful, all the feelings when you’re taking on a new challenge. It’ll be my longest, toughest h...

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thetrek.co

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