Backpackers hike near Dawson Pass in Glacier National Park. The lack of understanding of the hardships hikers encounter during and after a thru-hike creates a gap for providers to fill. Thru-hiking is ...
After Kevin Silvernale finished thru-hiking the Pacific Crest Trail (PCT) in 2016, he was hooked and started devising his own long-distance trail. The 34-year-old Colorado local went on to hike the ...
It wasn’t that long ago that aspiring thru-hikers had to explain what, exactly, they were doing planning to hike something like the Appalachian Trail or Pacific Crest Trail. The kinds of distances ...