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  • What Nobody Tells You About Extreme Thru-Hiking
  • Completing the Triple Crown
  • The Long Haul

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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 week ago

Completing the Triple Crown

Enlisting A huge factor that impacts your morale and keeps a thru-hiker progressing down the trail is the people that you meet.  Some thru-hikers prefer to hike with trail families...

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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 /1 month ago

I Am Hiking the AT

I’m leaving my life in Key West to start my Appalachian Trail thru hike in 2026. Meet Ari (or Piper) and follow the journey to Katahdin. The post I Am Hiking the AT appeared first...

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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

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

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 /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 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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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

Day 0-4, 4/25-28 Harper’s Ferry WV to Smithburg MA. 31 miles hiked

4/25- a full day of orientation with the Flip Flop weekend event. Markus and I met fellow hikers, former hikers, and ATC volunteers. The event was well supported and helpful. I g...

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thetrek.co /4 days ago

Part 8: Town Day (one day in Idyllwild)!!!

One of the thrills of thru-hiking — being in the woods or in the desert, slaloming through the mountains with only tiny objectives every day (crushing miles, getting to the next wa...

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thetrek.co /1 month ago

Paid Sabbatical for Backpacking? How To Thru-Hike Without Quitting Your Job

inding enough time off work to thru-hike a long trail is an early hurdle that derails many would-be thru-hikers’ dreams. While some leave their jobs, wait for retirement, or take a...

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thetrek.co /2 weeks ago

Days 1-7 from the Shire to Bree

Day One: Mile Zero My parents drove me from RVA down to the lodge at Amicalola Falls. On the way we stopped at a rest area and had turkey sandwiches on onion rolls as is the Suhr f...

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thetrek.co /1 month ago

20 AT Thru-Hikers You Should Be Following in 2026

s the hiking season officially kicks into high gear, The Trek welcomes yet another class of Appalachian Trail thru-hikers to the Blogger Team! Though the start dates may be differe...

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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 week ago

Day 14 — Mission Creek

Miles hiked: 21.8 Mile marker: 248.2 The trek on Mission Creek begins at 4:30 AM with a beautiful sand smiley face, drawn by none else than the highly acclaimed sand artist: Journe...

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thetrek.co /1 month ago

The Smokey Mtns and Gatlinburg

Even before getting on trail, there was a lot of trepidation about hiking the Smokey’s. The high elevation and rugged terrain make the weather especially tempestuous. Luckily our h...

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thetrek.co /1 month ago

One Man’s Hike. Someone Else’s Chance to Walk.

Noah Ballek is a man on a mission. A few actually... Noah is set to thru-hike the Appalachian Trail this season, but not only is he planning to complete the trail, he also plans to...

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thetrek.co /1 week ago

Hiking the CDT; who’s idea was this?!!?

After having hiked the Appalachian Trail (A.T) three years ago, Turtle Trax (https://thetrek.co/author/stephen-calkins/) and I decided it would be a good idea to hike the Continent...

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thetrek.co /4 weeks ago

Day 6: A push into Dick’s Creek Gap

Before I started hiking and was reading these kinds of blogs – just like you are right now – I didn’t understand why hikers stayed in hostels that much. I thought they were a bit s...

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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

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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thetrek.co /1 month ago

I’m Having Wicked Dreams of Leaving Tennessee: Shakedown on the Natchez Trace

As many of this year’s class of thru-hikers are starting their treks or well on their way, I’m still dreaming of the day when I’ll head to Georgia — waiting for graduation when I c...

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