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

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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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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 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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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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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 Real Hiking Viking’s 10 PCT Hot Takes

ou know, a lot of people say that hiking the PCT is the easiest of all the Triple Crown trails. Well, I’m here to tell you—it’s not like that. If you think hiking the PCT is going...

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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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theverge.com /6 days ago

On Trails is a wandering tale that blends hiking, science, and history

Hiking is one of life's great joys. Turning off the screens and stepping out into nature for an extended period of time, perhaps even several days, is rejuvenating. Unfortunately,...

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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

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

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 /2 weeks ago

Conserving Energy and Flooring It

Welcome to the west coast! Well this is it. We’re doing it. Here it is. I’ve been hiking the PCT for a bit now, and it’s time to share some stories. Going into this hike, the name...

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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 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 /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

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

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 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 month ago

Come to New Zealand and do NOT Hike the Te Araroa

New Zealand is undeniably one of the top ten greatest countries in the world to tramp – and yes, Kiwis even have their own word for hike which gives you a good idea of how seriousl...

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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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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

Meet Gritt: The Slow Section Hiker Tackling Washington State Along PCT

Hello, my name is Gritt. That’s Gritt with two T’s, so I guess you could say I’m not like those other Grits you’ve met (I’m different). I‘ve been obsessed with hiking for several y...

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thetrek.co /1 month ago

The Case for RVing Your Next Section Hike

This is a sponsored post brought to you by RVshare. You can get $75 off when you spend $700 or more on bookings at RVshare.com now through 9/30/26 (excluding insurance, tax, fees,...

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thetrek.co /2 weeks ago

The Case for Slackpacking SOBO

What I didn’t know is that I’d be a really big fan of slackpacking the opposite direction of my hike. Before hitting trail, I assumed I would be walking every step of the way compl...

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