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1. Great Long-Distance Walks Of The World As a long-distance backpacker with an Appalachian Trail thru-hike under my feet and many other treks on my ever-growing "trails to walk" bucket list, I love reading about the footpaths of the world, especially those that ramble on for hundr...
2. Planning A Colorado Trail Section Hike: Silverton To Durango And, boy, do we need one. It's been a long time since my husband and I have done a multi-day backpacking trip together, and we're really looking forward to our first section-hike on the Colorado Trail in June, 2009. I figured that, as I plan...
3. Hiking The International Appalachian Trail It was a long winter - a long, cold winter - nearly unbearable for those of us who suffer from Seasonal Affective Disorder, and for those who must live around us. I was miserable from the cold, and I struggled daily to show up at a job that no longer...
4. My Hike On The Appalachian Trail I'd dreamed of hiking the Appalachian Trail for a dozen or so years, but I'd grown up in a family too pragmatic to do much more than dream. All my life I'd followed the rules and worried what others thought of me. I'd always been shy and easily intim...
5. Quick Guide To The Pacific Crest Trail A thru-hiker is one who hikes the entire length of a long-distance trail in one season. The reasons for doing so are as numerous and as varied as the hikers themselves. Many times thru-hiking gets in the blood and becomes an obsession -- the hiker is...
6. 10 Places to See in Europe Before You Die This Lens I made for YOU! The most interesting and beautiful places in Europe: Pictures, Tips, Itineraries and other useful and fun stuff on the BEST places in Europe to visit!
7. Hiking My Way to a Novel On September 25th, 2000, I completed a six-month journey from one end of the Appalachian Trail to the other, a 2,200-mile walk from Georgia to Maine otherwise known as a thru-hike. Along the way, I embarked on another type of journey, a creative adv...
8. SARpack: Search & Rescue Gear When I was first training to be a Search & Rescue volunteer, one of the required courses was all about personal safety and gear. Being a well-seasoned hiker and long-distance backpacker, I already had a closet overflowing with packs, sleeping bag...
9. Hiking The Appalachian Trail: What You Really Need To Know The picture to your left is me, the A.T. hiker known as Ramkitten (on a really cold April morning in the Georgia mountains), here to share the wisdom gained from six months on the trail, all in one fell swoop! Most of what you'll find on the int...
10. Starting An Appalachian Trail Thru-Hike On New Year's Day Choosing the day to begin a hike of more than 2,000 miles over an average of six months' time is a big decision for many who set out with such a goal. Each year, about 1,500 to two thousand people attempt to do just that: a thru-hike on the Appal...
11. Hiking Trails, Hiking Tips, Hiking Trips When I'm not hiking, I'm often thinking about hiking. And when I'm thinking about hiking, I'm often talking about or writing about hiking. And since I write about hiking a lot, I thought I'd put together this collection of my arti...
12. Backcountry Water Purification Before backpacking the Appalachian Trail, I'd done a lot of hiking, but those outings had lasted a day or two at most. So I'd been able to carry all the drinking water I needed, straight from tap to bottle, and never had to obtain extra supply from b...
13. Trail Days Festival In Damascus, Virginia In 1999, I attended my first Trail Days festival as a wanna-be Appalachian Trail thru-hiker. The following year, I hiked into Damascus, Virginia--considered by some to be the friendliest town on the A.T.--after walking nearly 500 miles from Springer...
14. Hiking the Appalachian Trail: A Story in Postcards On a recent snowed-in lazy day, I plopped myself on the floor in front of my shelf full of scrapbooks and binders and started flipping through some memories. Three of the scrapbooks contained keepsakes from my  six-month Appalachian Trail thru-h...
15. Hiking The Grand Canyon, Rim To Rim There is SO much one could write about hiking in the Grand Canyon, but here I want to focus on hiking rim to rim, specifically using the popular "Corridor" trails. I usually do my rim to rim treks from south to north, so that's the orde...
16. The Use And Misuse Of The SPOT Satellite Messenger Imagine someone calling 9-1-1 from a remote area of Grand Canyon because the water they filtered tastes kind of salty, setting in motion a risky rescue operation. Or what about making the call because your backpacking guide is making strange noises i...
17. The Ten Essentials For Backcountry Travel If you've read other articles of mine, you may be rolling your eyes right about now, thinking, ugh, is she harping on this stuff again? Well ... yeah. I can't help it; I'm a big proponent of being prepared, particularly in the backcountry. And if yo...
18. How To Plan For An Appalachian Trail Thru-Hike When I finally made the decision that it was my year to go for it--to hike from Georgia to Maine from the beginning of April to sometime in the Fall--I set out the pens and notebooks and books and calendar. I made lists and more lists and began sched...
19. How To Prepare For A Thru-Hike Thru-hiking a long-distance trail is an adventure undertaken for as many reasons as there are hikers. Whether it becomes a life-enhancing experience or merely a miserable folly depends largely on preparation and expectation. Though life in the woods...
20. Best Of The Appalachian Trail on Twitter It just gets under your skin. The fresh air. The sheer physical exertion. The camaraderie with others who walk with packs on their backs. Okay, and the rain and the mud, the bugs and rocks, the lightning, the snakes and the bears. The sweat and the...