For a few years, and many miles, home made beef jerky has served as a substantial portion of our hiking diet. Our friends, Purple and Carnivore (we met them on the AT in 2011), showed us how they make it in the days immediately before we began hiking … [Read more...]
Our 10 Favorite Things – 2018 Hiking Season
Even though we have hiked a lot of miles, each trail and each year seem to teach us something new. We decided to compile a list of our “favorite things” from this past hiking season. Some of these things will be old hat to some hikers, but they are … [Read more...]
How We Train for a Thru Hike
Each year seems to find us in a different situation as we train for a big hike. Some years we have the luxury of training on hiking trails just minutes from our front door. Other years we have only paved roads nearby to walk on. Some years we have … [Read more...]
How I Avoid Shin Splints
Background: Hiking with Shin Splints on the Appalachian Trail Hiking the AT was our first big hike and while it was an awesome experience, it also had some pain. I got shin splints while trying to outrun a hurricane whose effects were … [Read more...]
Colorado Trail (CT) – Food
Planning for a trail of this length seems so much more manageable than our planning for the PCT, and certainly the AT. We are still opting to send ourselves resupply boxes along the trail…we know that many hikers aren’t into that style of resupply … [Read more...]
Pacific Crest Trail (PCT) 2016 – Beardoh’s Food
In an effort to try and eat a bit healthier and eliminate my on-trail gummy worm addiction, I'll be sending out most of my food on this year's PCT hike. Day to day, my food has little variety and this worked fine on the AZT, and it works well at … [Read more...]
Trigger Point Therapy On The Trail
When we hiked the Appalachian Trail back in 2011, I started to experience a good deal of pain in my right hip. The first time I had a problem was in the Mahoosuc Notch in Maine. As we were climbing over, under and around the giant boulders in the … [Read more...]
