by | Apr 13, 2018 | Animals, Appalachian Trail, Hiking
Overall, Chica and I were surprised by the number of animals we saw during our 6-months on the Appalachian Trail. Maybe it’s because we hiked as a couple and were not very stealthy, but we just didn’t see that many, especially mammals. Four bears, two moose, a few...
by Jen Seymour | Apr 10, 2018 | Appalachian Trail, Friday 5's, Gear, Hiking
Follow my blog with Bloglovin I loved being a woman thru-hiking the Appalachian Trail last year. Yes, I was with my husband, and that was epic, but I didn’t let that take away from the pride I had for myself as a woman. When I was young, and I first heard of the...
by | Apr 4, 2018 | Appalachian Trail, Books, Hiking
If you are like me consuming hiking books is like eating after you have been on the trail for a month … you read everything you can get your hands on. Today we provide you with an excerpt from A Walk for Sunshine, Jeff Alt’s memoir of thru-hiking...
by Sunsets | Mar 23, 2018 | Friday 5's, Gear, Hiking
Gear, gear, gear. It’s easy to get bogged down in the minutia of gear stats when outfitting a long-distance hike. Weight, size, material, multi-use’ness, cost, it seems an unending process to choose what is best. Today’s list is 5 items that can be easily left out,...
by Sunsets | Feb 15, 2018 | Appalachian Trail, AT, Friday 5's, Hiking
Some of the resources that a thru-hiker needs or wants are available for free in various formats. Here are my 5 favorites. 1) GPS and in-phone maps: The Hiker Bot app is a free tool that can take the place of Guthooks. Sadly, it is not yet available for Apple...
by | Feb 4, 2018 | Personal
UPDATE: This GIVEAWAY is now closed. Winners are: Stephanie and Melissa, you will be contacted by email for your signed copy of “Life Outside the Cubicle!” Did we really thru-hike the Appalachian Trail? It seems like all a dream now – a really, really...
by Sunsets | Feb 2, 2018 | Appalachian Trail, AT, Friday 5's, Uncategorized
Most Appalachian Trail thru-hikers start the trail as a neophyte and end it as an expert. Along the way they learn that some of the things they had been told about the trail just aren’t true. These are five of those things for us. 1. Virginia is easy/flat...
by Jen Seymour | Jan 25, 2018 | Appalachian Trail, AT, Friday 5's, Hiking
Before we left on our AT journey, several people asked us if we were sure we sure we wanted to hike as a couple, to be together day and night, in the woods, with no regular showers … for 6 months!?? Were we crazy? Not in the least. When Sunsets and I quit our...
by Sunsets | Jan 19, 2018 | Appalachian Trail, AT, Friday 5's
There are hundreds of photo opportunities along the 2200 miles of the Appalachian Trail. I wanted to showcase my five favorites. Since these are shots from our journey there are not any from early on in the trip … it was always raining. Rain and fog shut us down at...
by Sunsets | Jan 12, 2018 | Appalachian Trail, Friday 5's
Six months, 2189.8 miles, 5 million steps, tramping through 14 states. No matter what stat you use to define it, there is no denying that an Appalachian Trail thru-hike is an impressive feat. It can be life changing … and habit forming. Some of these habits don’t fit...
