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Sneak peeks of a new blog post on Tales of a Trail “A Day In Town”. You’ll read about all the typical tasks that thru-hikers need to do when staying 24 hours in town, arriving in the morning, spending one night and getting back out
Sneak peeks of the new blog post on Tales of a Trail “Final Gear List”, diving into the topic of gear. You’ll find tips & tricks from our experience with it and, most importantly, our complete and final gear list for hiking th
PCT | The People (Part II) “Happy Man” Japan 🇯🇵 NOBO hiker “No Hands” UK 🇬🇧 NOBO hiker “Beans” Japan 🇯🇵 NOBO hiker “Casey” Washington, USA 🇺🇸 NOBO hiker “Swiss Machine” Swit
PCT | The People (Part I) “It is the people, it is the people, it is the people” (cit. Elina Osborne) This famous PCT video on youtube might cause to set high expectations about the trail’s social aspect, but it is true: the frien
PCT | The Trail Family “Do you think we are ever going to be part of a trail family?” In the desert, this was a question I often asked Yannick when, after sunset, we were snuggling into our sleeping bags. We were meeting many amazing pe
PCT | day 136 - 140 | miles 2574 - 2655 | The Dream (Part II) “My body is tired, everything hurts, I want this to end!“ “But wait… if I properly think about it, I don’t want this to end at all! I don’t want to s
PCT | day 136 - 140 | miles 2574 - 2655 | The Dream (Part I) Just like that, we found ourselves in our last 5 days stretch between Stehekin and Canada, leaving civilization for one last time. 1: Rushing into the Stehekin Bakery for an epic breakfas
PCT | day 132 - 135 | miles 2467 - 2574 | Around the Last Fire We left Leavenworth and started hiking from Stevens Pass with determination: we were going to walk our last alternate around the Miners Complex Fire. The reroute we planned was 4 days lo